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The general counsel for The Trump Organisation has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a 17-year-old American girl who created a website where people can use kitten's paws to scratch US President Donald Trump's face.
The site, originally called TrumpScratch.com. was meant to be a fun project for Lucy of San Francisco who set up the site to practise her coding skills, she told The Observer.
Enrolled in a coding bootcamp at the moment, she wants to work in a disruptive tech company and has been applying for jobs as a Web developer recently. The TrumpScratch.com site was created so she would have something to put on her resumé.
Three weeks after the site was launched, Lucy received the letter from Trump's general counsel who is based at Trump Tower on New York City's Fifth Avenue.
{loadposition sam08}The Observer said it had confirmed the authenticity of the letter, which touted Trump as a "well-known businessman" and TV star and said, "“As I’m sure you’re aware, the Trump name is internationally known and famous".
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Lucy was advised by a lawyer known to her family and changed the name of the site to kittenfeed.com but that did not result in any change. She and the lawyer have not heard anything further from Trumps side after that.
She told the Observer: "I was going to just let this go, but I think it’s, pardon my French, f****** outrageous that the president of the United States has his team scouring the internet for sites like mine to send out cease and desists and legal action claims if we don’t shut down.
"Meanwhile, he tweets about The Apprentice ratings and sends out power-drunk tweets about phone tapping. HOW ABOUT BEING THE PRESIDENT?”
The Observer said Alan Garten, executive vice-president and chief legal officer at The Trump Organisation, had commented through a PR agency: "This is completely false. No such letter was ever sent by us."
The site appears to be down at the moment and the images are taken from the Internet Archive.
