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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Seriously these people are just pathetic.
Where does the Club for Growth get the money to run these ads?
A C&D letter is a prerequisite for a defamation/libel/slander lawsuit. Which could end up with Trump taking CFG to the cleaners.
Good,The savy business man knows,hit em in the pocketbook!
Golly. Imagine how awesome this would be if Trump were actually conservative.
So when Club for Amnesty Growth asked him for a $1 million donation, that was blackmail?
Pay up or we run these ads.
Trump called them a bunch of thieves, maybe he was right.
GOPe.
The whole purpose of it is to get people talking about the facts of the matter at hand, and that's exactly what is happening here. LOL.
Don't forget about hussein's red lines which may not be crossed, or he'll have to take two steps back and draw another red line.
The whole purpose of this "cease & desist" letter is to get free media coverage for Trump. Sending a similar letter to ISIS would have the same purpose, and the same effect.
Another lawsuit coming? Trump maybe the first presidential candidate to actually make money during a campaign.
SUE `EM, TRUMP....!!
I love this guy...!
Your point?
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Getting lots of attention.
That fact pattern isn;t going to work too well for them should it get that far.
Nice. Just love that he doesn’t take one iota of crap from anyone.
He’s only going to be able to get so many cycles out of that bluffalo lawyer of his before the system catches on. The First Amendment is nowhere near dead which means of course politicians can lie about other politicians with impunity except to their reputations, and that is up to the people caring.
Pat Toomey was a “Club for Growth” -er. He want RINO soon as he set foot in DC.
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