Trump Sends Cease and Desist to Conservative Club for Growth

For a while now, Donald Trump has been feuding with the conservative Club for Growth, and today he sent the group a cease and desist over a “defamatory” ad.

The ad––which Trump’s lawyer calls libelous––calls Trump just another politician because a few years ago, he said he identifies more as a Democrat and has a history of supporting higher taxes, national health care, and the bailouts.

The letter [PDF], sent by Trump attorney Alan Garten, calls the ad “replete with outright lies, false, defamatory and destructive statements and downright fabrications which you fully know to be untrue.”

They claim the ad completely misrepresents Trump’s current positions on taxes, saying the claim about his support of raising them is “the very definition of libel.”

Trump wants to put a halt to their attacks with a multi-million dollar lawsuit so that no one is able to watch that ad again.

You can watch that ad again here:

Update- 3:22 pm EST: The Club for Growth quickly responded in this blistering statement:

The @club4growth is unintimidated. pic.twitter.com/C378dB6EDZ

— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) September 22, 2015

[image via screengrab]

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