- President Donald Trump attacked corporate and foreign donors of the Center for American Progress after the think tank published a report criticizing his federal law enforcement surges.
- The Center for American Progress report found that deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and other cities cost $1.7 billion but had no impact on crime rates.
- Trump labeled the findings a Radical Left SCAM on Truth Social and threatened legal action against the organization and its financial supporters.
- CAP representative Chandler Hall noted on C-SPAN that violent crime reductions in Washington predated the federal intervention, making the costly deployments unnecessary.
- Trump administration border czar Tom Homan defended the law enforcement surges and urged cities like Chicago to adopt similar federal measures.
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Trump lashes out at everyone from Apple and Bill Gates to Walmart and NBC in Truth Social rant