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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

GOPe.


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81 posted on 09/22/2015 12:36:03 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: McGruff

Trump maybe the first presidential candidate to actually make money during a campaign.


LOL!

Not going to happen but amusing to think about.


82 posted on 09/22/2015 12:37:09 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Yes at some Point Donald is going to have to spend some money and it could be some positive ads and then some negative ads. He needs to do an ad with clips from his rallies and run it all over Iowa.


83 posted on 09/22/2015 12:37:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: tatown

What is really interesting is that he is doing what he said in terms of preparing himself issue by issue through the campaign. First immigration, then guns, taxes is coming. By Nov 2016 he will have rolled out a comprehensive policy on everything and HIS POLICY PAPERS SEEM TO GROW MORE CONSERVATIVE as time goes on (I.e., guns).


84 posted on 09/22/2015 12:37:40 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: samtheman

There’s a few of the class of 1997 around, but you don’t see them often.


85 posted on 09/22/2015 12:37:43 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Thanks.


86 posted on 09/22/2015 12:37:53 PM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: RoosterRedux

Most of the other pols would have ponied up the extortion payment the “chumps for growth” have demanded of Trump. It’s good that trump is willing to have a transparent and very public fight against this kind of chicanery.


87 posted on 09/22/2015 12:38:09 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: kjam22

Which has to be proven in a court too, so there is a lot of slop in the system. Not impossible, but not even the majority of such possible cases ever get there.


88 posted on 09/22/2015 12:38:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: samtheman

He had to know how to get the media talking to his advantage during all the years he was empire building.


89 posted on 09/22/2015 12:38:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Ever the “statesman,” I see. LOL! For someone so “respected” he does come off as thin skinned and whiney a lot.

Could have just ignored the group and said what he planned to do about actual issues facing our nation.


90 posted on 09/22/2015 12:38:52 PM PDT by MDspinboyredux
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To: Tijeras_Slim; samtheman

There are at least 8-10 1997 FReepers around. Liz is one.


91 posted on 09/22/2015 12:39:39 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: samtheman

Well, at least to spend at much smaller rate than the typical politician.


92 posted on 09/22/2015 12:39:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I agree... most cases don’t get there. I think Trump probably gets little guys without big bucks shut down with the threat. They can’t afford to go against him in court, or even the lead up to court costs.


93 posted on 09/22/2015 12:39:56 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Spktyr

The laws in regards to libel/slander ect do not apply to political figures, free speech is given the widest latitude when it comes to political figures.

If this were not so. Most of the left would have been in jail about the W presidency.


94 posted on 09/22/2015 12:40:34 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

It’s too bad Trump can’t afford a team of top drawer attorneys to kick these guys’ ...

... oh, wait.


95 posted on 09/22/2015 12:40:42 PM PDT by glock rocks (I don't always talk to liberals, but when I do, I order the large fries.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Trump has to get up off of his money and counterattack back with ads.

Sounds as if you may hold stock in a broadcast facility or two? (No he doesn't need to buy ANY ads at this point...still.)
96 posted on 09/22/2015 12:41:16 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: LS

He’s being populist and he knows that conservative is where the people really are (liberal plays to certain small groups but does not get broader America to buy in).


97 posted on 09/22/2015 12:41:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Interesting. Thanks. I was just wondering the other day why it took me so long to find this site.


98 posted on 09/22/2015 12:41:29 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: RoosterRedux

The Club For Cheap Labor has exposed themselves as just more employees of The Cheap Labor Express.

It’s pretty amazing how many people have been paid off to betray the citizens.


99 posted on 09/22/2015 12:41:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: kjam22

It has to be played with discretion so you come across as a person with a righteous cause, not a hot head bully ready to take offense at most any slight.


100 posted on 09/22/2015 12:42:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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