AND NOW, THE TRUMP CARD

The Market-Ticker ^ | Feb. 16, 2016 | Karl Denninger

[SatinDoll]

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Donald Trump dramatically escalated his feud with rival Ted Cruz on Monday, threatening to sue the Texas senator over his eligibility for office if he does not retract alleged **lies** about Trumps positions – and calling on the Republican National Committee to intervene on two fronts.

The billionaire businessman wants the RNC to pressure Cruz, and also stop allowing so many donors at the debates. If the RNC does not **get its act together,** Trump warned, they would be violating the **pledge** he signed to support the eventual GOP nominee.

I think he should sue.

Cruz either has a CRBA from the State Department or he does not. For a citizen born outside the United States that document is the proof that you were born as a citizen of the United States, just as a US birth certificate is the proof that you were born here as a citizen if you are born in the United States, as I have written on before.

But there is more here that Trump has every right to be angry over. First, the GOP misappropriated his name and likeness to solicit donations for the GOP. They recently solicited donations allegedly for **Trump supporters** but the funds they were soliciting will go to the GOP generally, not to Trumps campaign, and they did it without his permission.

Absent some sort of formal agreement by Trump to allow his name and likeness to be used in this fashion that is an outrageous abuse and breaks a number of laws, including the fact that the GOP needs a photo release for the picture they used since it was used for commercial, not editorial, purpose.

The law on such is quite-clear, incidentally. I can take a photo of you (provided I have or acquire the copyright) and use it for editorial purpose, or for that matter I can sell the image as a work of art. But if I use that image to sell something (e.g. a brand of soda, a brand of shirt, etc) then I have to have a release from every person in the picture or I have violated your rights and the person who does the advertising (not the photographer) can be sued and will probably lose.

Well, GOP? Where is your photo release? You do not have one, do you?

That is what I thought.

Then there is the stacking of debate audiences, **strategic** placement of microphones in the stacked portions of the audience and worse, blatant electronic **enhancement** of both boos and cheers, all of which has happened in the last two **contests.**

Remember that Trump signed his pledge to the Republican Party under the specific condition that his candidacy be treated fairly.

Any one of the above would be a clear violation of that constraint and thus free him from his pledge. But he does not have one violation, he has at least three, never mind the phony GOP solicitation made under his name but for the GOPs benefit, not his.

There is a basic reality that the GOP has to face here: The establishment GOP is not in charge when it comes to Trump, nor for that matter, are they in charge when it comes to voters.

They may think they are but we have a candidate in the race this time around who is more than willing to stick up the middle finger when it is called for -- and in my opinion that line was crossed quite some time ago with all the phony promises of **reducing spending**, **erasing the deficit**, **enforcing the rule of law** and similar flat-out lies.

As for people like Starnes who wish to blame Republican voters for "screwing this up" by refusing to vote for Romney, **** you with a rusty chainsaw. Neither I or anyone else are under any obligation to vote for anyone. The party that wishes me to vote for their candidate instead of either staying home or voting for Cthulu has the affirmative obligation to run a candidate worth voting for, and if they cannot be bothered to do that they deserve to be destroyed as a political force in this or any other nation.

[SatinDoll]

Very strait forward. Out for comments.

[traderrob6]

Litigious is as litigious does.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

I’d like to see him sue as well. It’d be interesting to see how things would go with a full hearing of the matter.

[rwilson99]

I don’t like that the RNC sent out a solicitation targeting Trump supporters.

Likewise... Trump raised $6 million dollars allegedly for Veteran’s groups... and the vast majority of that money hasn’t gotten to it’s destination.

What the RNC has done is disgusting... what Trump has done looks like money laundering.

[SubMareener]

Fight Back

Much as it pays to emphasize the positive, there are times when the only choice is confrontation. In most cases I’m very easy to get along with. I’m very good to people who are good to me. But when people treat me badly or unfairly or try to take advantage of me, my general attitude, all my life, has been to fight back very hard. The risk is that you’ll make a bad situation worse, and I certainly don’t recommend this approach to everyone. But my experience is that if you’re fighting for something you believe in— even if it means alienating some people along the way— things usually work out for the best in the end.

When the city unfairly denied me, on Trump Tower, the standard tax break every developer had been getting, I fought them in six different courts. It cost me a lot of money, I was considered highly likely to lose, and people told me it was a no-win situation politically. I would have considered it worth the effort regardless of the outcome. In this case, I won— which made it even better.

When Holiday Inns, once my partners at the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, ran a casino that consistently performed among the bottom 50 percent of casinos in town, I fought them very hard and they finally sold out their share to me. Then I began to think about trying to take over the Holiday Inns company altogether.

Even if I never went on the offensive, there are a lot of people gunning for me now. One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people— I categorize them as life’s losers— who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 765-779). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

[xzins]

The law about CRBA says that a passport will also suffice.

Cruz has a passport, I assume. I don’t really know, but I think he was out on a foreign trip last year.

Saying Cruz is not a citizen is a non-starter. First, even if your parents didn’t fill out the paperwork, then it used to be you could do so until age 23 or so, but now I think there is no age limit at all.

So, his passport is evidence of his US citizenship.

I’m a Trump supporter, by the way.

[nickcarraway]

I said he should sue. But how will you keep all out of evidence all the time she said that Cruz was eligible?

[The Iceman Cometh]

Litigious is as litigious does.

I know, what's wrong with Trump? Doesn't he know that the Republican way is to just write a strongly worded letter? /sarc

[Lurkinanloomin]

The courts will duck this if they can.
They have already allowed an usurper into office.
If forced to decide, they will decide for the new definition of simply being born a citizen to cover their own posteriors.
The new definiton makes every anchor baby and Winston Churchill eligible.

One is NATURALLY a US citizen when one cannot possibly be anything else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Natural born citizen.

[DannyTN]

I want to him to sue on eligibility for the sake of future elections: So far we have:

• Cruz born in Canada of one citizen parent - records sealed.
• Rubio born in the USA of two non-citizen parents. They became citizens after his birth.
• Obama born in the USA (according to Hawaii) of one citizen parent, but records sealed and no proof offered to public.
• Roger Calero, a non-citizen green card holder on Presidential ballots in 2008 and 2012.

[jimbo807]

But no cuss words, dammit!

[jessduntno]

I don’t think it is straightforward at all. If you board a bus, you need not sign an agreement or a contract. It is imlied by the fact you are aboard the conveyance. Trump has availed himself (fraudulently, in my opinion) of the title and status of Republican. Moral of the story is don’t get on the bus if you are going to insist you should not be a paying rider. Inclusion of a group implied through membership is an implied contract, probably spelled out in the GOP agreement when making public appearance, but also probably not necessary. “Not having one’s act together” will most likely be greeted with a hee haw by anyone in the legal system as grounds for negating an agreement, but those are weasel words on Trumps part. If it speaks like a weasel (or barks like a dog) it probably is one. The whole thing should be held in a fourth grade moot court session. Swift justice.

[AuntB]

“. First, the GOP misappropriated his name and likeness to solicit donations for the GOP. They recently solicited donations allegedly for **Trump supporters** but the funds they were soliciting will go to the GOP generally, not to Trumps campaign, and they did it without his permission. “

FINALLY! RNC by way of the NRCC and NRSC has been scamming Trump supporters for months.

Trackback:

September was when I started reporting on this. There are half dozen articles since.

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/09/gop-snakes-making-off-trump-as-they-try.html

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/09/more-gop-fundraising-on-trump-name-now.html

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/10/gop-lobbyistscon-men-are-still-using.html

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/10/greg-walden-denies-nrcc-dirty-tricks.html

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/10/gop-lobbyistscon-men-are-still-using.html

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/10/lets-bleed-trump-supporters-scam-of-day.html

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/10/trump-tells-super-pacs-bogus-trump-gear.html

[A CA Guy]

A plus about the Donald is he may do anything you won’t expect.
Good against the RNC, Iran, Russia and Democrats.
Like Reagan he will go over the head of the establishment to the people.

The fix is in IMO for Trump or Cruz. Remember Jeb Bush smiling like the cat in Alice in Wonderland stating there was no way Trump gets the nomination? This is about the brokered convention being planned. I even heard Hew Hewitt state on his show a month ago that delegates better book an extra week.

I think the RNC plans to screw Cruz or Trump and to rally behind a Rubio at the convention like they used Ryan to supposedly bring it all together.

All the above IMO will be the very end of the Republican Party. If the winner of the primary does not go forward all hell will break loose and the Republican Party will have caused the end of the Republic as we knew it and they will loose all their power and money.

[JBW1949]

How do you know the money hasn’t gotten to the destinations it was intended?

[Irenic]

As for people like Starnes who wish to blame Republican voters for "screwing this up" by refusing to vote for Romney, **** you with a rusty chainsaw. Neither I or anyone else are under any obligation to vote for anyone.

Thank you.

[AuntB]

” Trump raised $6 million dollars allegedly for Veteran’s groups... and the vast majority of that money hasn’t gotten to it’s destination.”

Wow! You don’t expect much do you? That was only two weeks ago! George Bush didn’t take care of our vets when he was president!

2008...SHAME
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2008/04/shame.html

[elhombrelibre]

So if the crybaby Trump became president, what party would help him achieve any of his goals? Hmmmm? I mean after he’s trashed everyone in his mad, megalomaniacal campaign who in what party would champion his positions? He’d be a lame duck on day one.

[AFreeBird]

Works for me.

[Lagmeister]

vast majority of that money hasn’t gotten to it’s destination.

I have already posted the link to the PDF file from Trump's website where the money is going. I assume you have specific dollar amounts that have been issued to that list. The accusation of money laundering is vile and shows you either do not understand the definition of the term or you are willing to smear without merit.

Some of the funds were pledged and may not have been forthcoming. Some of the checks were presented at rallies. Whatever the case, it is rather early for your type of smear. Once again, your accusation demands that you indicated how much money has been given and what groups have not received the cash from Trump's posted list. Care to retract?