Trump Says Lawsuit Is Being Prepared Against Soros-Funded Center for American Progress Over National

President Donald Trump said a lawsuit is being prepared against the Center for American Progress and suggested some of its financial contributors could also be added after the organization concluded that National Guard deployments produced no measurable reduction in violent crime.

By yourNEWS Media Newsroom.

President Donald Trump said Monday that a lawsuit is being prepared against the Center for American Progress over a report concluding that National Guard deployments to U.S. cities had no measurable effect on violent crime, reviving a legal threat he first made against the organization in August.

In a new Truth Social post, Trump singled out Chandler Hall, CAP’s associate director of public safety and author of the July analysis, while also naming a range of organizations and individuals he described as financial supporters of the think tank. Trump said he was considering extending any legal action beyond CAP itself. The Sept. 7 post repeated language Trump had previously published Aug. 10.

“Chandler Hall, representing, on Television, the foolish Center for American Lack of Progress, stated that adding the National Guard to Cities, including our now Great Again, Washington, D.C., had ‘NO impact on Crime,’” Trump wrote. “How crazy is that. Hall was met with furious dissent. The report is just another Radical Left SCAM, as are the people who fund this gaggle of Lunatics, including George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, WellsFargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile, and NBC Universal.”

Trump also cited the Embassy of Japan, the Korea Foundation and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates among organizations he said had provided foreign support to CAP. The think tank says that in 2025, 95.7% of its charitable contributions came from individuals and foundations, 2.1% from labor unions, less than 2.2% from corporations and 0.2% from foreign governments. CAP says corporate and foreign government donors cannot fund specific research or objectives and that it stopped publishing a donor honor roll in 2025.

“The Dumocrats love it, and are against anything ‘TRUMP,’” Trump continued. “These people, and others like them, are so bad for our Country. Their stated course is anything to hate or demean ‘TRUMP.’”

Trump then said legal action was forthcoming.

“This will be met with a lawsuit, which is being drawn now. I am also strongly considering adding some of the contributors to this Fake Organization. Crime is way down since I took Office, and they know it. Liars, at this level, must be held accountable!” Trump wrote in the post.

The president had made essentially the same allegations in an Aug. 10 Truth Social post, when he first said a lawsuit was being prepared. As of the latest reports, Trump had publicly threatened litigation, but no newly filed lawsuit against CAP stemming from the report had been identified.

The dispute centers on Hall’s July 13 report, “The Trump Administration’s $1.7 Billion National Guard Deployments Fail To Reduce Urban Crime.” CAP analyzed crime trends surrounding National Guard deployments in cities including Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis and concluded that it found no statistically significant reduction attributable to deployment of the Guard.

“The second Trump administration is trying to take credit for the historic drop in violent crime across America despite the fact that this trend began before it took office, and it is using these declines to justify expanding policies that are unpopular, ineffective, and costly,” the report stated. “Even though the data clearly show that violent crime and homicides were already dropping in American cities in 2023 and 2024, the Trump administration has continued to threaten city and state leaders and argue that its extreme actions, such as deploying the National Guard to support law enforcement operations, are improving public safety.

“However, new Center for American Progress analysis finds no evidence that National Guard deployments have reduced violent crime. Moreover, if these deployments are extended and continue through the end of 2026, they could cost American taxpayers more than $1.7 billion.”

CAP said its analysis incorporated monthly and weekly data from the Real-Time Crime Index, Gun Violence Archive and official city statistics beginning in January 2023. Researchers used several statistical models to examine violent crime, homicide and gun victimization before and after deployments while attempting to account for existing trends and seasonal differences. The organization concluded that the deployment variable did not produce a statistically significant crime-reducing effect in the models it examined.

A central point of disagreement is whether declines recorded after federal deployments should be attributed to the administration’s intervention or viewed as part of a downward trend that was already underway.

“In an effort to falsely claim his policies have reduced crime, the president is exploiting the fact that violent crime and murder were already declining in the cities his administration targeted with these extreme interventions,” CAP’s report stated. “On average, the 11 cities where the National Guard was deployed or threatened to be deployed saw a 14 percent decrease in their 12-month rolling violent crime rate and a 22 percent decrease in their 12-month rolling murder rate from June 2024 to June 2025, before the National Guard was first deployed to Los Angeles.”

National Guard personnel were deployed to cities including Los Angeles, Washington and New Orleans as the Trump administration expanded federal involvement in local public-safety operations. CAP’s report also examined cities where deployments had been threatened and argued that falling crime rates predated those interventions.

The administration has disputed that interpretation and credited increased federal law-enforcement activity with improving public safety. In August, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said crime had fallen sharply during the year following the federal law-enforcement surge and reported a substantial increase in prosecutions during the same period.

A separate contemporaneous report cited after Trump initially announced his Washington crackdown said overall violent crime in the capital had fallen 22% during the following week and that no murders had been recorded over the preceding seven days. Those short-term figures, however, measure changes during a particular period and do not by themselves establish whether the National Guard caused the decline.

CAP estimated that the deployments could cost taxpayers more than $1.7 billion if operations in Washington, New Orleans and Memphis continued through the end of 2026 at the deployment levels examined in its analysis. The organization cited a Congressional Budget Office estimate that Guard and other federal personnel deployments involving Los Angeles, Washington, Memphis, Portland and Chicago cost $496 million during 2025.

The dispute now extends beyond competing interpretations of crime statistics. Trump has said CAP’s conclusions warrant litigation, while the organization maintains that its findings are based on statistical analysis of crime data.

Trump’s latest statement leaves the scope and timing of the threatened case unresolved, including whether any CAP contributors will ultimately be named alongside the organization.