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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well, If he files ,I will be shocked. He is asserting defamation so I guess federal in Iowa but don’t count on it. The case law is clear. Anything but malicious and knowing false statement are permitted. They are just stating political opinion. An example of actionable slander would be. “I know you killed your wife” . We will see.
>> Another lawsuit coming? Trump maybe the first presidential candidate to actually make money during a campaign <<
You don’t necessarily make money by filing frivolous law suits, esp. a suit that is bound to fail on First Amendment grounds.
That’s because some judges will dismiss and order the plaintiff to pay the defendant’s legal fees and court costs.
(I’m not saying the latter action is going to happen here — merely that it’s very possible.)
Congrats!! I hear the *pension* is paid with wisdom, not $$ ;-)
What you might have missed is the possibility that Trump might own a judge tht will force a settlement rather than go to trial
In that respect, I’ve been collecting since Day One.
Yeah, go six months at a shot without posting helps, too.
>> Hard to win a case of defamation if you’re a political candidate. Maybe he’s trying to intimidate or scare them <<
Maybe? What’s up with that?
Draw a red line. They wouldn’t dare cross.
They are losers. He’s a winner. He needs to tell them how smart he is. Plus, he has billions. Billions with a ‘B.’ Those losers should never have any right to say anything uncoooooooool about him. He’s a brand new conservative and he’s beyond reproach. Go, Donald. You da, Dawgg, dude. You like a real GAWD, dawg. You new age conservative, dawg. Screw Burke, Hayek, any others.
Proud to be Class of ‘97. Linked to FR from Drudge.
Yes!
The media is doing that work for him by echoing every word he says........and it's all free. LOL!
>> What you might have missed is the possibility that Trump might own a judge that will force a settlement rather than go to trial <<
Excellent point, one that indeed I had missed entirely!
Trump brags openly about how many politicians he has bought or bribed, so I guess it wouldn’t be surprising if he also has a few judges in his pocket.
Lurked from work until IT guy blocked site. Got my first home computer with dial up because of FR. Took forever for one page to load. And pictures arrrrrgh. Now I use a cell phone that corrects spelling even when not wanted. Too small print with eyes getting worse. Arrrrrgh
Miss some of the old timers. Fun group!
Well, from what I've been seeing from Trump boosters on other threads, allow me to proffer that you might add the works of Victor D. Hanson and Thomas Sowell to your Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
Those were the days the devil mask?
My impression is the CFG sold out to the establishment during W’s first term.
His sister served on Federal Appellate Court NJ/NY district. Where did he file the paper work?
She was a colleague and friend of Sam Allito
This is a shot across the bow letting the Club for Growth know that Trump is about sic his pitbull lawyer, Michael Cohen, on them.LOL! Yeah, let us know how that works out.
He eventually backed off. But I believed him the first time.
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