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.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
That’s good, isn’t it?
Someone should ask Trump how politico.com got a copy of the letter.
Great.
Trump is playing this by the book. If the cease & desist letter is not effective he will bankrupt them when he institutes litigation. He wins either way.
I love that he says it himself instead of some “spokesperson”.
Must be a hen house, eh? “Layers”? :-)
I think this is one of the few times I have veer seen a candidate with the maturity to fight back against political liars.
Go Trump Go!!!
CLUB PRESIDENT DAVID MCINTOSH JOINS MORNING JOE
...Bashes Trump, Supports Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz (in that order)
Laughed when asked about Yeb. ...brought up Yeb support of Common Core.
A real politician would denounce the falsehoods in the strongest terms.
FWIW, the first amendment doesn't protect defamatory speech.
want s/b went.
Durnit.
A “Strongly worded letter”. Yep, Obama certainly knows about strongly worded letters. He gets one from boner at least once a week.
yes. a good businessman to the death...
That is the heart of reason for Trump’s continued support. He fights like he wants to win.
Yeah... there’s always a fine line between the first amendment and slander.
Well floors full of laying hens is a whole lot of chickensh!t. Club for Growth had better be prepared for a sh!tstorm to come their way.;-)
I have been sending ALL of my CFG donation requests back with the word TRAITOR written on them, and requesting to be removed from their database.
Here’s their contact info, if anyone cares to give them a call/email/fax/tweet...
Phone: 202-955-5500
Toll Free: 855-432-0899
Fax: 202-955-9466
https://twitter.com/club4growth
In fact, the classy approach (and I believe the same thing would have held for Walker, who arguably got misrepresented by Trump the other day) would be to thank the other party for bringing up the matter, because now it’s a chance for Trump to highlight the truth, which is [etc.]
Can be if he gets their attention and they listen to his reasoning. All these candidates
have supporters that will have to go somewhere when and if they drop out of the race.
And most will as we progress towards mid March or so.
Agree. CFG has turned into a complete sham, under McIntosh.
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