Trump Torches List of Think Tank’s Donors – from Apple to Walmart – in Scorching Rant: ‘Radical Left SCAM!’

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump tore into some of America’s biggest companies and business figures on Monday, singling out Apple, Google, Walmart as well as billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates, as he threatened legal action over a think-tank report challenging his record on crime.

The reactions came after the Center for American Progress (CAP) associate director Chandler Hall appeared on C-SPAN to discuss his report, published in July, concluding that the president’s use of the National Guard and federal law enforcement in Washington, D.C., and other cities had failed to demonstrate a meaningful impact on crime despite costing $1.7 billion.

Trump unloaded on Hall in an overnight Truth Social post on Monday as well as the think tank’s donors.

“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,’” the president 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,” he went on, listing donors: “George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, WellsFargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile, and NBC Universal. Foreign support includes the Embassy of Japan, the Korea Foundation, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (Taiwan), and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates.”

He then refocused his ire back to the think tank, threatening to take it to court.

“The Dumocrats love it, and are against anything ‘TRUMP,’” he went on. “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,” he concluded. “Crime is way down since I took Office, and they know it. Liars, at this level, must be held accountable!”

(Screengrab via Truth Social)

CAP, founded in 2003 by John Podesta, no longer publicly identifies its donors, and during his C-SPAN sitdown, Hall acknowledged that homicides and violent crime had fallen in Washington, but argued that the decline began before Trump’s federal intervention.

“I think it’s unfortunate that the president is continuing to still choose to boast that these deployments, these very costly interventions, are showing any result to try to convince voters that they should sign on for more of these kinds of interventions and federal overreach when, again, there’s no proof that they have any effect,” he said.

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