It is infrastructure. Different from a casino.
It is a private company, using eminent domain.
The spin isn’t going to work here.
Is it a private company or isn’t it? Yes. It is.
As for a casino parking lot, it is infrastructure that enables a casino that will employ hundreds if not thousands.
This impacts the community, the city, the county, the state, and the federal government through taxation.
This not just about Trump. It is also about all the people who will have jobs, and the many members who will be able to use the facilities of a casino and or hotel.
That’s a public service too.
And it’s a national security thing. OPEC is driving prices low for strategic reasons - to put American shale/oil businesses out of business so we are still dependent on Middle East oil. Obama is doing his darnedest to make the USA vulnerable and his Islamist pals powerful. The Keystone pipeline is an important variable in national security.