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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: RoosterRedux

No, but I’ve seen my share of carney hucksters in my time.

PT Barnum would blush.


201 posted on 09/22/2015 3:26:05 PM PDT by MDspinboyredux
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To: MDspinboyredux
You are wrong. You obviously haven't been out of the small town carney. Come on out--go to the big city.

Consider a deeper look at what is going on.

You can be late to the party. It doesn't really matter--it isn't an insult to you. It's just that we are all built differently.

Trump is changing the game. He is bringing back honestly in politics.

You may disapprove and that is your perogative.

But for your own sake...take an unbiased look at what is happening.

202 posted on 09/22/2015 3:33:21 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: samtheman

Regarding your question to Raycpa, I joined Free Republic, when it was just getting started. Back in those days, most people used their real names as screen names including myself. After about a year, many of us changed over to fictitious names. So many of the early members re registered under different names.


203 posted on 09/22/2015 3:33:45 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: Raycpa

Yes, the Prodigy Whitewater bulletin board was where it all began. We used to hand type articles in there because most newspapers and magazines weren’t online then and we couldn’t cut and paste.

Prodigy then began to forbid the posting of copywrited articles and Jim Robinson built us a place on the World Wild Web.

The rest is history!


204 posted on 09/22/2015 3:39:39 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: RoosterRedux; hoosiermama; onyx; Jane Long; V K Lee; conservativejoy; RitaOK; Black Agnes

“NYC was poison. The politics went back hundreds of years.”

To Boss Tweed, or even earlier.

“Trump went in there and made a fortune—changed the skyline.

How any human being could do that is beyond me.”

It is beyond me too, and I worked with high end commercial RE developers for 25 years in Los Angeles.

“Only a bona fide genius could do what Trump did.”

A remarkable confluence of intellectual brains and “street” brains.


205 posted on 09/22/2015 3:41:51 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: SamAdams76

Interesting. Thanks. So FR started in 97?


206 posted on 09/22/2015 3:42:24 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: Alberta's Child

Rush was talking about that the other day. He said that conservatives have figured out that if they want their message to get out .. all they have to do is leak it to Politico.


207 posted on 09/22/2015 3:47:25 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: Alberta's Child

Also, it attacks their credibility.


208 posted on 09/22/2015 3:47:53 PM PDT by crager (I went to look for myself and if I happen to return while I'm gone tell me to wait.)
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To: RoosterRedux

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Try Preparation H Donnie-boy.
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209 posted on 09/22/2015 3:49:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

You must read THE TRUMPS section about his dad. He gave him the foundation. His dads partner Levin or Levine had no one to train and leave his part of business. He mentored Donald as well. It is part of the reason he is so respected by the NYC Jewish community. He was raised with their sons.

Yes he is smart but he had two very knowledgeable strong men who trained him from the cradle


210 posted on 09/22/2015 3:49:57 PM PDT by hoosiermama (If Obama canÂ’t convince Americans heÂ’s not a moslem then it certainly isnÂ’t TrumpÂ’s job to do s)
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To: Cboldt

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Truth is not defamatory.
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211 posted on 09/22/2015 3:50:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SamAdams76

I first registered under a different name. But can’t remember what now.


212 posted on 09/22/2015 3:52:00 PM PDT by hoosiermama (If Obama canÂ’t convince Americans heÂ’s not a moslem then it certainly isnÂ’t TrumpÂ’s job to do s)
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To: RoosterRedux

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>> “Trump is changing the game. He is bringing back honestly in politics.” <<

???

His self-remake is honest suddenly?

Sorry no!
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213 posted on 09/22/2015 3:53:12 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Cboldt

“... denounced the ads as false, and obtained publicity to that effect without having to run counter-ads.”

This is the very smart move Trump has made. It’s public now that the ads are false .. and Trump doesn’t have to spend money countering them. Very, very clever.

Nice to have a candidate so smart.


214 posted on 09/22/2015 3:53:32 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: mmichaels1970

Excellent post.


215 posted on 09/22/2015 3:53:40 PM PDT by crager (I went to look for myself and if I happen to return while I'm gone tell me to wait.)
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To: SamAdams76

Learn something every day. Was always impressed with the international posts. When the Chinese had our airplane FR was the only reliable source of information


216 posted on 09/22/2015 3:55:33 PM PDT by hoosiermama (If Obama canÂ’t convince Americans heÂ’s not a moslem then it certainly isnÂ’t TrumpÂ’s job to do s)
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To: editor-surveyor

I don’t think you are an idiot. But you are acting like one.


217 posted on 09/22/2015 3:56:04 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Amen!


218 posted on 09/22/2015 3:58:19 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

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Because I don’t go along with your sloganeering?

Trump has to bring honesty to himself before he can bring it anywhere else.
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219 posted on 09/22/2015 3:58:54 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: samtheman

e = ELITEST OR ELITES (take your pick)

In other words .. not Trump or Cruz.


220 posted on 09/22/2015 3:59:03 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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