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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Excellent counter move.
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I agree.
I can't recall a case where a plaintiff got an injunction amounting to prior restraint of speech. Money damages after the speech, yes.
Meanwhile, he's denounced the ads as false, and obtained publicity to that effect without having to run counter-ads.
hehe.....
caught the misspelling too.
You do have a point though. Club For Growth badly needs laid, especially the head of it.
Why pay money for something you are getting for free?
Trump wrote the Art of the Deal. One of the principles is to never use your own money when you can use other people's money to accomplish the same objective.
So far the MSM has given him millions of dollars in free ads. They attack him and he responds. They print the attack and they print his response. The MSM gets readers and Trump gets supporters.
It has to rise to the level of actual malice when a public figure is involved.
“So when Club for Amnesty Growth asked him for a $1 million donation, that was blackmail?
Pay up or we run these ads.”
LOL. Like I said, Trump wins either way.
The establishment owns the courts and if Trump takes the Club for Growth to court, guess what. Even if a court finds in Trumps favor, how and who will enforce it? It is inevitable that the American people will have to chime in a bit more harshly.
Can anyone explain whats the skinny on the Club for Growth? Dont know much about them.
True! To do it in a way that gets himself talked about automatically spares his ad budget, which some people have said isn’t all that generous.
I thought brothel, but sure, why not.
Club for Growth has needed a good smack for a long time IMO...
Years ago, I asked an attorney what a cease and desist letter would say, and-with a straight face-he said “it reads something like dear sir/madam, f*** you-strongly worded letter follows”...
And maybe the populist attraction of Trump will get exactly that to happen
Raycpa. I notice you joined FR April 2, 1998. Was that around the very beginning of FR? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a user with a 1997 date and I was thinking the other day of asking the next 1998 person I see about this.
Just curious. Thanks.
Like trying to intentionally defame someone with accusations that you know are not true?
Yes it has.
Hard to win a case of defamation if you’re a political candidate. Maybe he’s trying to intimidate or scare them.
Anyway, Trump does best when he’s being Trump and verbally counter-attacking.
They are a PAC, among other things, and Trump is a threat to their way of life.
He has fathered five children... Something is working.
Started out as a good thing (Lower taxes), but got a bad case of Potomac Fever. The new head McIntosh is a complete and utter schmuck. CFG is now an evil entity.
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.
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