Posted on 09/22/2015 12:11:09 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump has sent the Club for Growth a cease and desist letter aimed at stopping the conservative outside group from airing a set of attack ads against him in Iowa.
The letter comes a week after the Club for Growth unveiled a set of 30-second ads in Iowa attacking Trump as just another politician who supports liberal policies.
"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. "We will be releasing my current tax proposal, which is a major decrease in taxes, in the next week and will continue to expose the two faced hypocrisy of the Club for Growth and the problems groups like this perpetuate within a broken Washington, D.C."
The cease and desist letter argues that one of the ads is not only "disingenuous, but replete with outright lies, false, defamatory and destructive statements and downright fabrications which you fully know to be untrue." The letter calls out the Club's claim that Trump supports raising taxes, arguing the source for that claim is a gross exaggeration. The Club cited Trump's support in 1999 for a one-time 14.25 percent tax on individual net worth and trusts.
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Interesting. Thanks. I was just wondering the other day why it took me so long to find this site.Back in the day a lot of us found FR by accident on a link at the Drudge Report. There was a time when it was removed but I really don't know if there is one there now or not.
Yeah, it's just awful with lying conniving double dealing a-holes get ticked off at someone who has the guts to stand up to them.
Yep, it’s there again.
I found FR back during the time of the recounts as well, but didn’t sign up for quite a while. My leftist extremist sister used to comlain all the time about this site, so i knew it would probably be really cool. I signed up some time in 2002 with my first handle, now gone but not totally forgotten.
“Back in the day a lot of us found FR by accident on a link at the Drudge Report.”
Apparently, there are quite a few of us.
Well, it appears your survival instincts have improved. ;)
Later
“A cease and desist letter is a great tool in a situation like this because it’s not intended to actually get any results.”
On the contrary, running these ads after asking for $1 Million Dollars could easily be considered Extortion. If they worked with someone’s campaign to coordinate the messaging, that could be conspiracy.
It was great to be able to have conversations without liberals.
Current events play a role in signups. There was a huge run up of FReepers after 9/11, and Drudge helped big time by linking FR to his home page in 2001.
August 1998 for me. Crazy for sure. Ash and Don Morgan days.
Remember when a page would have reply buttons plastered all over it. Or someone else's HTML would go on for post after post because lord knows who forgot to close their tags.
As someone posted above….
…The Donald has an army of lawyers to do discovery on the Club for Growth….
…I expect to hear that their server was struck by lightning
I think a cease and desist letter is the opening salvo of litigation. It positions him to be able to sue on more serious charges, should he choose. (I think....)
“…I expect to hear that their server was struck by lightning “
“My doggie ate my server”
Click on my screen name.
In another few years, I’ll qualify for a pension.
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