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Cubs chairman Ricketts: 'It's surreal when Donald Trump threatens your mom'

MESA, Ariz. - Donald Trump has gone after seemingly everybody during his campaign and that extended to the Chicago Cubs and their owners earlier this week.

Trump Tweeted the Ricketts family had "a lot to hide" after discovering Marlene Ricketts gave $3 million to an anti-Trump campaign:

I hear the Rickets family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $'s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2016

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred brushed aside Trump's Tweet later that day and got together with Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts Tuesday in a prearranged meeting.