Donald Trump & his problems with Eminent Domain--and a little old lady's house!

[oreo]

As the shoes continue to DROP on Donald Trump here is another problem: Eminent Domain.

Since he shot to the top of the presidential polls, Donald Trump’s serial bankruptcies and bullying nature have made big headlines. But no one seems to have brought up a bullying business practice he’s particularly fond of: eminent domain.

The billionaire mogul-turned-reality TV celebrity, who says he wants to work on behalf of “the silent majority,” has had no compunction about benefiting from the coercive power of the state to kick innocent Americans out of their homes.

For more than 30 years Vera Coking lived in a three-story house just off the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Donald Trump built his 22-story Trump Plaza next door. In the mid-1990s Trump wanted to build a limousine parking lot for the hotel, so he bought several nearby properties. But three owners, including the by then elderly and widowed Ms Coking, refused to sell.

As his daughter Ivanka said in introducing him at his campaign announcement, Donald Trump doesn’t take no for an answer.

Trump turned to a government agency — the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) — to take Coking’s property. CRDA $250,000 for the property — one-fourth of what another hotel builder had offered her a decade earlier. When she turned that down, the agency went into court to claim her property under eminent domain so that Trump could pave it and put up a parking lot.

“Trump has had no compunction about benefiting from the coercive power of the state to kick innocent Americans out of their homes."

Ms Coking and her neighbors spent several years in court, but eventually with the assistance of the Institute for Justice they won on July 20, 1998. A state judge rejected the agency’s demand on the narrow grounds that there was no guarantee that Trump would use the land for the specified purpose. “TRUMPED!” blared the front page of the tabloid New York Post.

Donald Trump's Eminent Domain Love Nearly Cost a Widow Her House

 

[Missourian]

Another election year, another deluge of Oreo negative attacks on republicans.

Can you say Liberal plant?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Another election year, another deluge of Oreo negative attacks on republicans.

Can you say Liberal plant?

Why don't you address the topic and dispel the rumor that you're braindead?

 

[Missourian]

Another election year, another deluge of Oreo negative attacks on republicans.

Can you say Liberal plant?

Why don't you address the topic and dispel the rumor that you're braindead?

Exhibit A: Who runs to the defense of the OP? A rabid liberal.

Who couldn't have seen that coming?

 

[BULLDOG]

Another election year, another deluge of Oreo negative attacks on republicans.

Can you say Liberal plant?

So several years ago the woman refused to sell her house, because she knew trump would eventually run for president and her story could be told and hurt his chances of winning. Is that what you are saying?

 

[Missourian]

Another election year, another deluge of Oreo negative attacks on republicans.

Can you say Liberal plant?

So several years ago the woman refused to sell her house, because she knew trump would eventually run for president and her story could be told and hurt his chances of winning. Is that what you are saying?

Exhibit B: Second rabid liberal defends OP.

 

[Zander]

Don't like Trump?

Don't vote for him.

He didn't invent "Eminent domain".

 

[BULLDOG]

Another election year, another deluge of Oreo negative attacks on republicans.

Can you say Liberal plant?

So several years ago the woman refused to sell her house, because she knew trump would eventually run for president and her story could be told and hurt his chances of winning. Is that what you are saying?

Exhibit B: Second rabid liberal defends OP.

Answer the question. How exactly is this story a Liberal plant?

 

[Missourian]

Another election year, another deluge of Oreo negative attacks on republicans.

Can you say Liberal plant?

So several years ago the woman refused to sell her house, because she knew trump would eventually run for president and her story could be told and hurt his chances of winning. Is that what you are saying?

Exhibit B: Second rabid liberal defends OP.

Answer the question. How exactly is this story a Liberal plant?

I wasn't referring to the story, please re-read the post you are quoting.

 

[Missourian]

Don't like Trump?

Don't vote for him.

He didn't invent "imminent domain".

Heck, I'm not particularly keen on Trump.

But my wife and my mother believe he is the best hope for the country...their words, not mine...and I certainly respect their opinions.

And my wife is far more conservative than I am.

Back when Christie was the front runner, I said if he was the nominee, I'd consider voting for Hillary...and found myself sleeping on the couch.

 

[BULLDOG]

Another election year, another deluge of Oreo negative attacks on republicans.

Can you say Liberal plant?

So several years ago the woman refused to sell her house, because she knew trump would eventually run for president and her story could be told and hurt his chances of winning. Is that what you are saying?

Exhibit B: Second rabid liberal defends OP.

Answer the question. How exactly is this story a Liberal plant?

I wasn't referring to the story, please re-read the post you are quoting.

Then be clear what you were referring to. Your post was the first one after the OP. Explain what you are trying to say.

 

[kiwiman127]

He isn't the answer for the struggling middle class, he one of their problems.

 

[Missourian]

Then be clear what you were referring to. Your post was the first one after the OP. Explain what you are trying to say.

Are you unable to decipher two sentences written in plain English?

While it's not my responsibility to give you a remedial lesson in reading comprehension, as a public service, I'll do my best...

Do you see the word "story" appear anywhere in the post?

Who or what was the subject of the post?

Was that too big a hint?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

As the shoes continue to DROP on Donald Trump here is another problem: Eminent Domain.

Since he shot to the top of the presidential polls, Donald Trump’s serial bankruptcies and bullying nature have made big headlines. But no one seems to have brought up a bullying business practice he’s particularly fond of: eminent domain.

The billionaire mogul-turned-reality TV celebrity, who says he wants to work on behalf of “the silent majority,” has had no compunction about benefiting from the coercive power of the state to kick innocent Americans out of their homes.

For more than 30 years Vera Coking lived in a three-story house just off the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Donald Trump built his 22-story Trump Plaza next door. In the mid-1990s Trump wanted to build a limousine parking lot for the hotel, so he bought several nearby properties. But three owners, including the by then elderly and widowed Ms Coking, refused to sell.

As his daughter Ivanka said in introducing him at his campaign announcement, Donald Trump doesn’t take no for an answer.

Trump turned to a government agency — the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) — to take Coking’s property. CRDA $250,000 for the property — one-fourth of what another hotel builder had offered her a decade earlier. When she turned that down, the agency went into court to claim her property under eminent domain so that Trump could pave it and put up a parking lot.

“Trump has had no compunction about benefiting from the coercive power of the state to kick innocent Americans out of their homes."

Ms Coking and her neighbors spent several years in court, but eventually with the assistance of the Institute for Justice they won on July 20, 1998. A state judge rejected the agency’s demand on the narrow grounds that there was no guarantee that Trump would use the land for the specified purpose. “TRUMPED!” blared the front page of the tabloid New York Post.

Donald Trump's Eminent Domain Love Nearly Cost a Widow Her House

There is nothing 'wrong' with the doctrine of eminent domain, it's perfectly appropriate and Constitutional, contributing to the United States becoming a great and wealthy Nation.

And there is nothing 'wrong' with Trump availing himself of Takings Clause jurisprudence in good faith.

In this particular case, however, Trump failed to meet the legal requirements for the taking to be Constitutional.

 

[Blackrook]

Ironically, it was the liberals on the Supreme Court who favored the big powerful, wealthy developers, and the conservatives who voted to save the "little guy" homeowners. Why is that so?

Maybe liberals are NOT what they claim to be?

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