{"id":204488,"date":"2021-03-09T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204488"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:16:04","slug":"rnc-fires-back-at-trump-says-it-has-every-right-to-use-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-fires-back-at-trump-says-it-has-every-right-to-use-his-name\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Fires Back at Trump, Says It Has \u2018Every Right\u2019 to Use His Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frnc-fires-back-at-trump-says-it-has-every-right-to-use-his-name%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-628833102.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Republican National Committee fired back at former President Donald Trump on Monday, saying it \u201chas every right\u201d to use his name for fundraising purposes after Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer wrote in a letter that the Republican Party \u201chas every right to refer to public figures as it engages in core, First Amendment-protected political speech, and it will continue to do so in pursuit of these common goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter from the RNC was addressed to Alex Cannon, the counsel for Trump\u2019s Save America PAC.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Trump\u2019s attorneys sent&nbsp;letters to the RNC as well as its congressional campaign wings, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, demanding that they stop using his name and likeness in their fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump team\u2019s letters requested that the GOP \u201cimmediately cease and desist the unauthorized use of President Donald J. Trump\u2019s name, image and\/or likeness in all fundraising, persuasion, and\/or issue speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump was reportedly furious to see his name being used in&nbsp;RNC fundraising emails, as some of the money could potentially be used to benefit the&nbsp;10 House Republicans and seven Senate Republicans who voted to impeach him during his second impeachment trial in January. Trump has been known for decades to be touchy about how his name and brand are used.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has already promised to campaign against one incumbent senator who voted for his impeachment and is up for re-election in 2022, Lisa Murkowski, saying he will even travel to her state of Alaska to campaign against her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/06\/trump-lisa-murkowski-2022-474028\">told<\/a> Politico. \u201cShe represents her state badly and her country even worse. I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be \u2014 in Alaska campaigning against a disloyal and very bad Senator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising skirmish between Trump and the RNC highlights the tensions between the Republican Party and the former president since he has left office.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Trump and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell has been particularly strained after McConnell placed blame on Trump for the Capitol riot, saying Trump\u2019s \u201cactions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Trump excoriated McConnell, calling him a \u201cpolitical hack,\u201d and declared that \u201cif Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, McConnell said he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d support Trump if he were the party\u2019s presidential nominee in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the acrimony, the RNC expressed hope for a continued working relationship with the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RNC is grateful for the past and continued support President Trump has given to the committee and it looks forward to working with him to elect Republicans across the country,\u201d Riemer wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican National Committee fired back at former President Donald Trump on Monday, saying it \u201chas every right\u201d to use his name for fundraising purposes after Trump sent a cease-and-desist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310368,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-628833102.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"RNC Fires Back at Trump, Says It Has \u2018Every Right\u2019 to Use His Name","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-628833102.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"RNC Fires Back at Trump, Says It Has \u2018Every Right\u2019 to Use His Name","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}