Asking for a donation is not extortion.
This is just an empty threat, an attempt to scare them into silence.
It’s getting in front of their ad campaign. More people will hear of the letter and his response than will see the million dollars worth of ads.
And it cost him nothing.
I wish more candidates would learn how to manipulate a hostile media into working for them.
Asking for donations, being denied, and then running ads against that candidate looks like extortion to me.
Of course not.
I wonder why you left off the second part?