Posted on 09/22/2015 6:34:43 PM PDT by entropy12
The release — titled "Donald J. Trump Sends Club for Growth Scathing Cease and Desist Letter Regarding Recent 'Attack Ads'" — repeatedly bashed the Club for Growth, with whom Trump has constantly feuded during his campaign.
"I am not surprised the dishonest, irrelevant and totally failing Club for Growth has resorted to attacking the definitive front-runner, especially after I refused to contribute to their pathetic group," Trump said in a statement.
In the cease-and-desist letter to Club for Growth President David McIntosh, Trump lawyer Alan Garten similarly tore into the "pitiful little group" while promising a devastating lawsuit should the group not immediately pull its attack ads against Trump.
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You are free to do what you wish. I am conservative in all areas including social, fiscal, military & environment.
Actually, he just got a lot of people who never would have heard of these ads nor seen them to go look at them to see what is so bad he would sue over them, So he really just turned a $1 million ad buy into $50 million in free advertising AGAINST him.
I agree too.
Gee... You are SO predictable. Bash Trump, roll over, go back to sleep, wake up, bash Trump, roll over......
Is this Grover the Muxzzie’s group?
Did you go to the Wikipedia link and read the stands the CFG has taken through the years?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_for_Growth
They have standards that Trump doesn’t meet and also freedom of speech to disseminate those facts.
I agree. Problem with conservatives is that they have not been fighting back.
You’re welcome to your opinion.
\Most people I know don’t care for political ads.
“Seems like he is surrounded by “yes men” and flies into a rage anytime someone questions him. Poor temperament to say the least.”
“Seems like” means you are surmising; “flies into” and “poor temperament” means you are trying to establish concrete facts based on a surmise. Not sound logic.
Yes I have. How do you know he has no case?
Because the ads merely highlight Trump's own past positions. Trump's whole argument is that because they are saying that his PAST positions reflect what he would do as president, that they are lying, since he now says he doesn't believe the same thing.
Unfortunately for Trump, as a legal matter the Club for Growth is under no obligation to accept that what Trump says now is what he really believes. Since Trump made the original statements, Trump cannot make any case that they do not have a good-faith basis for their belief.
Fantastic post showing us actual letter from CFG asking a big donation from Trump. Obviously CFG loved Trump when he was not running against GOPe candidates.
It is also more than just refusal by Trump to give them money. My guess is CFG is attacking Trump at the behest of GOP elites. There is a coordinated attack by all career politicians including Perry, Graham, Jindal, FioRino etc.
Yes I include FioRino in that group because she has been active in political campaigns for a very long time. Here is an example in her own words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO6Bdt7mbVY&info=FiorinaSupportsCapTrade
Donald isn’t a Scotsman for nothing.
If his “yes men” are responsible for his accumulating ten billion dollars, then they must be a positive influence, or Trump is smarter than you give him credit for.
Your’re talking of Obama or rovr, aren’t you?
Trump’s lawyer scored 5 goals today. He sure can pick ‘em!
It doesn't matter how it looks to you - extortion has a legal definition, and it would be very hard to prove without recordings or documents with actual threats.
If it was a no brainer case, Trump would have ALREADY filed a suit, ala the Mexican TV outfit. The fact is CFG can NOT afford to spend money on defending a multi-million dollar suit. It will wipe them out into bankruptcy.
I like candidates who fight, and not apologize constantly.
If they don’t like him, why ask him for a million dollars?
Would they have still not liked him if he gave them the money?
If Club for Growth backs down, would you then conclude they are simpletons?
How the heck do you even know what he believes? He has flip flopped party affiliation and policy positions so much there is no way to know unless you just take him at his word what he is saying now are his real beliefs.
How amusing it is that Trump is making immigration his signature issue, and so many here are buying it, yet in 2012 he said Romney was too HARSH on the issue of immigration. All Romney proposed was to use eVerify to punish employers for hiring illegals. This would dry up available employment for aliens and they would either not come or "self deport". Heck, that is one of the few things Romney got right - and it's a pretty inexpensive way to accomplish much of the goal of reducing illegals in this country. And after opposing this in 2012, Trump is for an even more expensive and easily demagogued plan now? And you believe this why? You realize Trump actually was a Democrat for 8 years between 2000 and 2010. He also seems to think his fanatically pro-abortion sister is an example of someone who would make a TERRIFIC Supreme Court nominee. And yet you ignore or paper over all this when it comes to Trump, but not for any other candidate.
Trump does not have any record of being a conservative. He is a populist protectionist who actually shares many policies in common with Bernie Sanders. And even if Trump has suddenly "evolved" on all these issues and is conservative now, he is not grounded in conservative thought and really can't be trusted to make the kind of day to day appointments, administrative decisions, etc, that conservatives can count on.
We do have one candidate in the race who has a solid track record of conservatism, someone who rarely flip flops and has stood strong for conservative positions at almost all times. That person is Ted Cruz and while he may not have the celebrity of a realityTV star, he is a solid conservative that we can actually trust and count on as issues come his way.
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