Donald Trump Sends Club for Growth a Cease and Desist Letter

Donald Trump had his lawyers send a cease and desist letter to the Club for Growth (CFG) over their false statements in television ads.

Among the million dollars that CFG is spending on advertising, is an ad which accuses Trump of wanting to create the biggest tax increase in history. What they fail to mention is Trump’s comment on a wealth tax to pay down the debt was made over 15 years ago and he has not advocated for it since. His campaign issued a press release:

Also in that press release, Trump stated:

“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.”

The press release also accuses CFG of demanding one million dollars from Trump in exchange for his support. Fellow presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee is also criticizing CFG for spending a quarter of a million dollars in ads in support of ultra liberal nutcase Alan Grayson as he flirts with the idea of running for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat. CFG says they are supporting Grayson because he is against reauthorizing the Ex-Im bank.

That makes no sense, since Grayson’s likely opponent for the nomination wants to expand the bank. Grayson who is stiffing his wife and children will spend a lot of millions of his money to support his campaign which would surely tout it’s endorsement from the allegedly conservative CFG. That would make him harder to beat in the general election than his opponent.

CFG also bizarrely criticizes Trump on his statements on US auto makers that move manufacturing plants to Mexico. They would then send the cars into the United States for sale. Trump proposed a high tax for those cars in order to make it unprofitable for the car companies to do so:

• “I would say very simply, ‘Fellas, sorry, you gotta move back.’”
• “I’ll call them up and say, ‘Gotta go. I don’t want you in Mexico.’”
• “I would say to the head of Ford, ‘Sorry, I’m not gonna approve. You’re gonna pay a tax, for every car and every truck and every part that comes across that southern border, you’re gonna pay a 35% tax, OK?’ That’s what’s gonna happen.”

CFG responded :

“Donald Trump’s threat to impose new taxes on U.S. car companies will hurt the American economy and cost more American jobs,” said David McIntosh, President of the Club for Growth. “It should thrill liberals and Democrats everywhere that Trump wants to create new taxes and start a trade war to force American companies to work where he demands.”

“Trump wants to unilaterally threaten a major U.S. manufacturer with higher taxes.”

“The strength of the U.S. economy has historically been our free markets. But, for the past seven years the Obama Administration has driven up costs for consumers by attacking free markets with costly regulations and executive orders. Now Donald Trump wants to one-up the Obama pen-and-phone method by threatening global companies like Ford with higher taxes to make cars for Americans. If Donald Trump gets his way, the heavy hand of government will get substantially heavier, and car buyers will be left holding the bag.”

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Sorry. I had to have time to duct tape my head before responding to the idiotic argument from CFG. CFG says that Trump’s plan would cost the US jobs. But Trump’s plan is to stop American companies from shipping jobs out of the country. The jobs would already be lost. The tax would be an effort to save them. CFG then says Trump would be taxing US companies. Not true. No US company in the US would be affected by the tax. The tax would be imposed on a foreign subsidiary of the American companies.

Since those attacks are so far out in left field, one has to suppose that CFG has an ulterior motive. They say they hate Trump because he is a liberal, then they spend a small fortune in support of Alan Grayson.

Am I the only one who sees the irony here?