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Trump threatens ads against Ricketts family — Cubs 'not properly run'
Chicago Tribune ^ | March 21, 2016

Posted on 03/22/2016 5:57:45 AM PDT by reaganaut1

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday elaborated on a cryptic warning he issued to the Ricketts family in February, suggesting he would take ads out saying they're doing a "rotten job" with the Chicago Cubs.

"I'll start doing ads about their baseball team. That it's not properly run or that they haven't done a good job in the brokerage business lately," Trump said in an interview with the Washington Post editorial board.

Asked if he would launch those attack ads as the president, Trump responded, "No, not while I am president."

In February, Trump via Twitter denounced a super political action committee opposing his campaign that is primarily funded by Marlene Ricketts, whose family owns the Cubs.

"I hear the Rickets (sic) family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $'s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!" Trump wrote.

Asked by the Post what he meant, Trump first said, "I don't know these people. Those Ricketts."

"I actually said they ought to focus on the Chicago Cubs and, you know, stop playing around. They spent millions of dollars fighting me in Florida," Trump said.

"I'll start spending on them. I'll start taking ads telling them all what a rotten job they're doing with the Chicago Cubs. I mean, they are spending on me. I mean, so am I allowed to say that?"

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: ricketts; silentreaganaut1; trump
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How is Trump running ads about the Cubs going to get him votes against Cruz or Clinton?
1 posted on 03/22/2016 5:57:45 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Whaaa! Why does Trump hit back Whaaa!

Why doesn’t he just sit still and let us attack him!


2 posted on 03/22/2016 6:00:12 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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VOTE TRUMP!

3 posted on 03/22/2016 6:00:12 AM PDT by onyx (You're here posting, so sign-up to DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: reaganaut1
The Cubs are a great team they just won the World Series in .....

1908

4 posted on 03/22/2016 6:00:52 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: reaganaut1

WHY ASK A QUESTION?

YOU RARELY, IF EVER REPLY!


5 posted on 03/22/2016 6:02:11 AM PDT by onyx (You're here posting, so sign-up to DONATE MONTHLY!)
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How is Trump running ads about the Cubs going to get him votes against Cruz or Clinton?

You attack vipers by destroying their nest. They got personal with Trump - he returns fire. A couple of true Twitter videos can suppress millions in false campaign adds.

6 posted on 03/22/2016 6:02:17 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: reaganaut1

Isn’t this old news? I remember Trump talking about this a while back?


7 posted on 03/22/2016 6:02:35 AM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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8 posted on 03/22/2016 6:02:57 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: onyx
WHY ASK A QUESTION? YOU RARELY, IF EVER REPLY!

Maybe not looking for an answer ;-)

9 posted on 03/22/2016 6:04:32 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: reaganaut1
The art of the duel. You hit me, I hit you back fast and hard.
10 posted on 03/22/2016 6:05:39 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Yeah Will, the bespeckled A hole. He had another column in our Sunday paper that I could not finish. The man is obsessed. He should stick to baseball stats, something that suits his ilk the best.
11 posted on 03/22/2016 6:06:13 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: onyx

Payback is going to be a bit@$ on those who have trashed Trump.

What goes around, comes around.

Go Trump.


12 posted on 03/22/2016 6:06:26 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: reaganaut1
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday elaborated on a cryptic warning he issued to the Ricketts family in February, suggesting he would take ads out saying they're doing a "rotten job" with the Chicago Cubs.

That would be the same Chicago Cubs that made it to the National League Championship Series last year? So what does that say about the ownership of the Yankees and the Red Sox?

13 posted on 03/22/2016 6:06:51 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: reaganaut1
Put this thread in the usual place, Reggie:


14 posted on 03/22/2016 6:07:04 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: reaganaut1

The Chicago Cubs are the World Series Champions of 1908 and nothing can ever take that away from them.


15 posted on 03/22/2016 6:08:26 AM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents.)
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To: MNJohnnie

So you want a President who will attack citizens who disagree with him politically? Interesting.


16 posted on 03/22/2016 6:08:35 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: TYVets

AND DIE

17 posted on 03/22/2016 6:10:09 AM PDT by xp38
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To: tennmountainman
What goes around, comes around.

...as in abuse of power leading to impeachment?

18 posted on 03/22/2016 6:10:47 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Trump to McCain - "Pass the strawberries".)
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To: reaganaut1

If billionaires think they can hide behind the scenes and dump money into trashing people through PACs, a new day is dawning.

Trump is correct to drag them out of their lush holes, into the cleansing daylight and then cut off their heads with a hoe. They too can be accountable.

Trump is solving a structural problem and I appreciate it.


19 posted on 03/22/2016 6:10:58 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: tennmountainman

You sound just like Valarie Jarret after 2012. Bet you thought it was bad coming from her...


20 posted on 03/22/2016 6:11:01 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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