Report: "Dinner with Trump" super PAC gets cease-and-desist letter from Trump campaign
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign sent a cease-and-desist letter to a super PAC that is unaffiliated with the campaign that has offered supporters dinner with the GOP presidential nominee, according to a report in Politico.
The letter concerns American Horizons PAC, which is run by 25-year-old Ian Hawes, according to the report, and operates dinnerwithtrump.org. The report notes Trump’s official campaign has been offering its own dinner promotion.
“You are knowingly defrauding every person who gives you his or her email address or who makes a donation through your unauthorized website,” a letter from Trump’s campaign attorney, Donald McGahn, said to the super PAC, Politico reports.
“Your organization is using these materials in service of a promise you fully know is false — that visitors who submit their names or make donations thereby earn the chance ‘to have dinner with Donald Trump,’” the letter added. “You cannot possibly provide the prize that your website purports to offer.”
Politico says the group’s actual contest offers two tickets to “a Sponsor-selected fundraising evening event held with Donald Trump and other attendees.”
The report says Trump’s campaign also sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission about the situation in which it says the super PAC is defrauding its supporters.
In less than three months, the group has raised more than $1 million from 20,000 donors, the report said. Several donors have now requested refunds.
