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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Go TRUMP! fight fire with fire!! maybe the wimpy GOP will take note but doubt it..
Excellent counter move.
Trump is working on having all the groups ticked off at him in one way or another.
A cease and desist letter?
That seems mild. Shouldn’t trump verbally blast them with plenty of good ol’ vitriol?
That’s his style, right?
Don’t mess with a person with floors full of layers at his disposal
Only Trump would have the balls to do this!
BOOM!
Trump has to get up off of his money and counterattack back with ads.
A “Strongly worded letter” is more Presidential, just ask Obama.
Wow! Way to go!
In my opinion, he’s showing his power & going straight for the jugular. He’s not going to waste time on this BS..just shut them up/down.
It is brilliant because now everyone will want to read the letter. He doesn’t need to spend millions on adds to counter these attack adds. He just has to tweet a link to his cease and desist letter.
Let’s see... would “Club For Growth” rather spend their money on a lawyer fighting Trump’s potential lawsuit.... or would they rather do commercials and be careful to be honest about them? I guess that’s the $10k question....
Pingarooney.
I agree... there's no reason to argue with them. Just find out how good of an attorney they have.
“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.
He did that too.
I really like him...when is the last time we saw someone face off people like this?
I’m way more used to backroom underhanded deals and lies lies lies.
“Don’t mess with a person with floors full of layers at his disposal”
Is Trump going to send them all out to lay them?
A cease and desist letter is meaningless unless Trump is willing to go to a judge for an injuction to stop the ads.
Stomping on the First Amendent as an election tactic is unbecoming.
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