Trump lawyer sent cease and desist letter to Republican congressional candidate

TEXAS — A lawyer representing President Donald Trump sent Republican candidate Brandon Herrera a cease-and-desist letter last month after Herrera used a Photoshopped image of him and Trump for his 23rd Congressional District campaign. This Texas district stretches from San Antonio to El Paso and became more solidly Republican due to last summer’s mid-decade redistricting. Herrera does not officially have Trump’s support but says his campaign now uses a 2016 picture of him with the president. “At the end of the day, I think the voters in the district want somebody who’s going to support his agenda,” Herrera said. “So, that’s the message we’re trying to convey.” Trump endorsed incumbent U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales in the competitive Republican primary rematch for the district. “The results speak for themselves and have earned him President Trump’s complete and total endorsement,” a campaign spokesperson for Gonzales said of the representative. “Meanwhile, Brandon Herrera thinks he can fool people on TV by posing next to President Trump and making false associations — all this after saying President Trump ‘messed up a lot of things,’ claiming he couldn’t beat Joe Biden, insulting the President’s family, and not doing a single thing to advance the President’s agenda.” Herrera writes off the
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