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Donald Trump sends Club for Growth cease and desist letter
www.politico.com ^ | 09/22/15, 03:00 PM EDT Updated 09/22/15, 03:51 PM EDT | Daniel Strauss

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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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


101 posted on 09/22/2015 12:42:27 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
A “Strongly worded letter” is more Presidential, just ask Obama.
Or Ted Cruz
102 posted on 09/22/2015 12:42:40 PM PDT by lewislynn (Meghan Kelley...#sand--Rosie, the Don was right-- Hillary, lipstick on a pig)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Also they have tended to run conservatives that lose. The support is not broad enough.


103 posted on 09/22/2015 12:43:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I started lurking in ‘98, wild times then.


104 posted on 09/22/2015 12:44:04 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: glock rocks

: )


105 posted on 09/22/2015 12:44:23 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: MDspinboyredux
Could have just ignored the group and said what he planned to do about actual issues facing our nation.

Yer dern tootin'! Just as you could have ignored posting on this thread and done something else more productive; you're right!
106 posted on 09/22/2015 12:44:54 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: VerySadAmerican

The sunrise in Corwall in the Jeb ad... I guess they want to take Cornwallshire and make it the 51st state.


107 posted on 09/22/2015 12:45:10 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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.


108 posted on 09/22/2015 12:46:00 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Resettozero
😂
109 posted on 09/22/2015 12:46:16 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Tijeras_Slim

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.


110 posted on 09/22/2015 12:47:09 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Raycpa

“Excellent counter move.”
_________________________

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.


111 posted on 09/22/2015 12:47:10 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR)
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To: samtheman

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.


112 posted on 09/22/2015 12:47:23 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“The Club For Cheap Labor has exposed themselves as just more employees of The Cheap Labor Express.”

AB SO LUTELY.


113 posted on 09/22/2015 12:48:32 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Agree on current events, I was part of the 2000 Recount crowd.


114 posted on 09/22/2015 12:49:29 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Resettozero
Yes, because posting on FR and running for President are exactly the same thing.
115 posted on 09/22/2015 12:50:34 PM PDT by MDspinboyredux
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To: MDspinboyredux

“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*


116 posted on 09/22/2015 12:50:57 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: MDspinboyredux
Yes, because posting on FR and running for President are exactly the same thing.

No they're not. That's silly.
117 posted on 09/22/2015 12:51:19 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: drypowder
Trump knows that “free speech” totally protects political ads.What he is doing is calling the IOWA voter attention to the fact that they wanted his money and when he refused they turned on him with lies. This is brilliant on his part. The “club for growth “ is actually about CONTROL— not growth. What is so awesome about Trump is that all these money people can go fish. They don't get to pull strings on bad trade deals that benefit them or amnesty where they get cheap labor. Trump is a national hero for taking his time and money to give back to the wonderful country that helped him make it. With Hillary now exposed as sick— all we have to do is beat the clown Biden. We are going to win!!!
118 posted on 09/22/2015 12:51:26 PM PDT by WENDLE (Trump increased to 33% in two polls after the second debate!!!!)
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To: detective

*snicker*


119 posted on 09/22/2015 12:53:26 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: joshua c

“Pay up or we run these ads.”

Seems about right to me. That’s a good foundation for a defamation lawsuit.


120 posted on 09/22/2015 12:54:56 PM PDT by vette6387
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