In November 2016 ThinkProgress launched a "Trump Investigation Fund" crowdfunding effort. In 2017, Michael Goldfarb, founder of the conservative newspaper The Washington Free Beacon and its parent company, the Center for American Freedom, said he modeled them on ThinkProgress and CAP.
In November 2016, ThinkProgress launched a crowdfunding campaign to investigate Donald Trump. In 2017, Michael Goldfarb, founder of The Washington Free Beacon and its parent organization, the Center for American Freedom, modeled his work after ThinkProgress and CAP's methods.