美国总统唐纳德·特朗普本周发布了一篇较长的社交媒体帖子，抨击进步智库美国进步中心（CAP）7月发布的一份报告。该报告尖锐批评了他的国民警卫队部署计划，据The Hill报道。

CAP成立于2003年，是华盛顿最具影响力的进步政策机构之一，与民主党政府和国会领导层长期保持联系。该智库于7月13日发布的报告得出结论称，将国民警卫队部署到华盛顿特区“未能减少暴力犯罪，尽管其声称取得了成功”。特朗普的激烈抨击出现在报告作者Chandler Hall在C-SPAN接受采访并介绍其研究结果后不久。

在帖子中，特朗普威胁要对CAP提起诉讼，并点名列出一长串他称为该组织提供资金的实体，包括George Soros、Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation、Google、Apple、Visa、Goldman Sachs、Citigroup、Wells Fargo、Bank of America、Walmart、Toyota、T-Mobile和NBC Universal。他还点名了外国支持者，包括Embassy of Japan、Korea Foundation、Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (Taiwan)以及Embassy of the United Arab Emirates。

“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.' How crazy is that,” Trump wrote. “Hall was met with furious dissent. The report is just another Radical Left SCAM, as are the people who fund this gaggle of Lunatics.”

他继续写道：“The Dumocrats love it, and are against anything 'TRUMP.' These people, and others like them, are so bad for our Country. Their stated course is anything to hate or demean 'TRUMP.' 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!”

任何此类诉讼都将面临很高的法律门槛。根据美国最高法院1964年在New York Times Co. v. Sullivan案中的裁决，公众人物在诽谤诉讼中必须证明被告存在“actual malice”——即明知内容虚假或对真相罔顾后果——才能胜诉。历史上，这一标准使民选官员很难就政策争议或已发表分析成功起诉批评者。

这份CAP report认为，“the second Trump administration is trying to take credit for the historic drop in violent crime across America,” 尽管这一趋势在特朗普重返白宫之前就已持续多年。FBI统一犯罪数据和独立分析显示，自约2021年的疫情时期高点以来，全美暴力犯罪率一直在下降。报告称，政府一直借助这一既有下降趋势来“justify expanding policies that are unpopular, ineffective and costly.”

“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,” Hall's report stated. “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.”