“How do you know that he used government to take that property?”
He tried to acquire it on his own and failed, and then the government stepped in, in an unprecedented action to take the property away and give it to a private company (which was unconstitutional and illegal at that time), and that company was Trump’s. If you want to believe that was just some giant coincidence, I guess you can, but I’d say you’re a sucker. The government does not do things to help private companies out of the goodness of the government’s heart, because the government does not have a heart.
“Did it occur to you that the government wanted take that property because it was sucking services out of the city?”
No, that’s pretty ludicrous to think that the only “blighted” property in the city that the government ever tried to use that strategy on just happened to be this one that Trump needed to finish his parking lot. Why not a crack house? Why not a brothel? One can’t argue that this was the most “blighted” property in the city, so it doesn’t hold up.
“Is is right? I don’t like it either, but it isn’t against the law.”
Actually, it was against the law, and against the highest law in the land, the Constitution. Only recently, after the Kelo vs. New London SC decision did this type of thing suddenly become “constitutional”.
“Not a single right wing group stepped up to the plate on any of these “illegal acts of government—
False, conservatives have been up in arms about this type of thing ever since Kelo Vs. New London.
Again, you can not prove any of what you write.
You just assume, like all of your other posts
Trump has not acquired a single square inch of property using eminent domain
Also, please tell me where the “conservative groups” were during Mount Holly and Long Branch?
The big evil government stole homes from working families, homes that they owned, demolished them and turned the vacant lot over to a wealthy developer who built condos.
But the developer wasn’t that evil Trump guy, so I guess they don’t matter right?
“Up in arms” is not action. So when real Grandmas were being kicked out of their paid for homes so a wealthy developer can build upper class condos, the conservatives were no where to be found of course.
Action speaks louder then words. That is why Trump is taking off