In a conflict that is growing more intense by the day, GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s lawyer is threatening the conservative-leaning Club for Growth with a lawsuit over an attack ad that reportedly misrepresents the billionaire’s tax plan.
Trump on Tuesday released a copy of a letter sent to Club for Growth chief David McIntosh about the organization’s “attack ad” that, citing a 2000 “Advocate” article, charges Trump with supporting a “one-time net worth tax of 14.25 percent on the superwealthy” to address the national debt.
“Your Attack ad is not only completely disingenuous, but replete with outright lies, false, defamatory and destructive statements and downright fabrications which you fully know to be untrue, thereby exposing you and your so-called ‘club’ to liability for damages and other tortious harm,” the letter states.
The letter said a legal fight could be avoided if the Club for Growth confirmed it no longer will run “the Attack Ads” and would not “generate or disseminate any misleading or inaccurate information or make any factually baseless accusations you know to be untrue with respect to [Trump].”
The issue is the ad claiming Trump supports the “highest tax increase in history.”
Trump officials said “the misleading ad fails to disclose the details of Mr. Trump’s proposal … a concept he suggested over 15 years ago and has not supported since. This is the very definition of libel.”
“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. 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.,” Trump said in a prepared statement.
Club for Growth Action officials immediately responded with a statement that they will continue running the ads.
President David McIntosh said, “Tough guy Donald Trump starts whining when his liberal record is revealed. Trump has advocated higher taxes numerous times over many years, just like he’s advocated for universal health care, the Wall Street bailout, and expanded government powers to take private property. Trump’s own statements prove that our ads are accurate. They will continue to run. We suggest that Donald grow up, stop whining, and try to defend his liberal record.”
Trump’s letter, a copy of which was available online, also charged Club for Growth with attempting “to extort Mr. Trump to the tune of $1 million in exchange for your political support.”
WND’s request for a comment there did not generate a response from the Club for Growth.
“Indeed, you were not even the least bit discreet about your motives in that, after meeting with Mr. Trump, you immediately followed up with a June 2, 2015, letter requesting a ‘contribution of $1 million’ in exchange for an endorsement your organization’s political action committee,” the letter said.
“When Mr. Trump, however, presumably unlike many of the other candidates, refused to succumb to your extortionist demands, your only response was to oppose his inclusion in the August 6, 2015, Fox News Republican Presidential Debate, launch a series of misleading Attack Ads targeting Mr. Trump and, ultimately, endorse certain other candidates.”
In the alternative to Club promises not to further use the attack ad, the Trump organization letter, signed by attorney Alan Garten, said, “please be advised that we will commence a multi-million dollar lawsuit against you personally and your organization for you false and defamatory statements and the damage you have intentionally caused to my client’s interests…”
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