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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No matter what his style is, his company (and his name) will be vigorously defended by his lawyers, most likely at the direction of his children. Such ads likely wouldn’t bother Trump more than a reply of ‘they’re filled with baseless lies.’
Club for Growth needs to fully understand this, you’re welcome to go after the man, but you go after the name, and you’re going to end up with a whole lot of lawyers who have absolutely no problem asking very awkward questions during deposition.
A “Strongly worded letter” is more Presidential, just ask Obama.Or Ted Cruz
Also they have tended to run conservatives that lose. The support is not broad enough.
I started lurking in ‘98, wild times then.
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The sunrise in Corwall in the Jeb ad... I guess they want to take Cornwallshire and make it the 51st state.
I don’t think this is wind testing. I think he has never, methodically, thought these positions through, but as he is forced to do so, he is moving to the right. I certainly wouldn’t drape a conservative mantle on him yet, but I think he has developed a conservative position on guns, taxes, immigration that he wouldn’t have had 2years ago.
Ditto. Scary stuff then and in the ensuing years. Took a long time to ramp up enough courage to actually login and post. Still is scary now.
“Excellent counter move.”
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What is a letter going to do???
Trump needs to do an ad of his won. He has to get up off of some of his money.
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.
“The Club For Cheap Labor has exposed themselves as just more employees of The Cheap Labor Express.”
AB SO LUTELY.
Agree on current events, I was part of the 2000 Recount crowd.
“Could have just ignored the group and said what he planned to do about actual issues facing our nation.”
I was about to tell you that several posters on this thread have noted that Trump has according to his own principles pwned the media for free campaign advertising, but then I saw your heavily anti-Trump posting history, so:
*YAWN*
*snicker*
“Pay up or we run these ads.”
Seems about right to me. That’s a good foundation for a defamation lawsuit.
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