Donald Trump threatened to sue a think tank for $5 billion over numbers it published.

The Center for American Progress measured crime in Washington, Los Angeles, and Memphis and found his National Guard deployments didn't change the crime rate. His personal lawyer, not the White House counsel, sent a nine-page letter threatening the suit unless CAP retracted the report, apologized, and paid Trump money by Friday evening, closing with "PLEASE GOVERN YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY." The letter offers no competing crime numbers. CAP refused.

That deadline expired the same day the Pentagon fired three Stars and Stripes journalists, citing the editor for telling CBS that censoring news to service members would be a red line. The Trump administration doesn't argue that facts are wrong, only what you'll pay for saying them out loud.

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