Trump Rips Soros, Gates and Major US Companies, Threatens Lawsuit Over Crime Report

President Donald Trump unloaded on some of America’s biggest corporations and wealthy business figures Monday while threatening legal action against a think tank over a report challenging his record on crime.

Trump singled out Apple, Google, Walmart and several other major companies, along with billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates, after Center for American Progress associate director Chandler Hall appeared on C-SPAN to discuss a report published in July.

The report concluded that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and federal law enforcement to Washington, D.C., and other cities had failed to demonstrate a meaningful impact on crime despite costing $1.7 billion.

Trump fired back in an overnight Truth Social post, blasting both Hall and the Center for American Progress, or CAP.

“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,” he added, saying Hall had been met with “furious dissent.”

Trump branded the report “another Radical Left SCAM” before turning his attention to organizations and individuals he identified as donors to the think tank.
His list included Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile and NBC Universal.

Trump also named foreign support including the Embassy of Japan, the Korea Foundation, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office representing Taiwan and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates.

The president then threatened to take the think tank to court over the report.

“The Dumocrats love it, and are against anything ‘TRUMP,’” Trump wrote. “These people, and others like them, are so bad for our Country.”

Trump claimed their position amounted to doing anything possible to “hate or demean” him before announcing that a lawsuit was already being prepared.
“This will be met with a lawsuit, which is being drawn now,” he wrote.

Trump went even further, saying he was “strongly considering” including some contributors to the organization in his potential legal action.
“Crime is way down since I took Office, and they know it,” Trump declared. “Liars, at this level, must be held accountable!”
CAP was founded in 2003 by John Podesta and no longer publicly identifies its donors.

During his C-SPAN appearance, Hall acknowledged that homicides and violent crime have declined in Washington, D.C., but argued that the decrease began before Trump’s federal intervention.
Hall criticized Trump for continuing to claim that the deployments were responsible for results.

He described the federal actions as “very costly interventions” and accused Trump of attempting to persuade voters to support additional federal involvement.
Hall maintained there was “no proof” that the deployments had an effect on crime, setting up the latest clash between Trump and the progressive think tank over the president’s crime record.