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New York should seize Trump Tower
The Washington Post ^ | 12/12/2016 | Catherine Rampell

Posted on 12/13/2016 11:09:45 AM PST by Trump20162020

Froufrou Fifth Avenue resembles a police state.

Officers wielding gigantic guns guard Trump Tower, where President-elect Donald Trump conducts all transition business, and soon lots of presidential business, too. Shoppers patronizing the stores, cafes or public gardens inside must endure layers of security screening. Streets and sidewalks are barricaded; traffic is snarled; and costumed buskers milk money from the looky-loos obstructing the entrances to Gucci and Tiffany.

The challenges of securing this 58-story building in a high-density neighborhood will, by Inauguration Day alone, drain $35 million of local taxpayer money. Who knows the additional costs to commerce and property values?

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; giganticguns; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; trump; trumptower; trumptransition
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1 posted on 12/13/2016 11:09:45 AM PST by Trump20162020
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“gigantic guns” ??


2 posted on 12/13/2016 11:10:17 AM PST by Trump-a-licious
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The FBI should investigate the Post. The IRS should audit the Post. The Post should shut up.


3 posted on 12/13/2016 11:11:01 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Trump-a-licious

Russians with Uzi’s!


4 posted on 12/13/2016 11:11:59 AM PST by katnip
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Seen above, one of the guards protecting Trump Tower ...


5 posted on 12/13/2016 11:12:10 AM PST by Trump-a-licious
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To: I want the USA back

Only if NY wants most of armed PA to invade their streets and take back the tower.

The people have spoken. Shut the F up.


6 posted on 12/13/2016 11:12:22 AM PST by PSUGOP
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To: Trump20162020

These people never see their hypocrisy.


7 posted on 12/13/2016 11:12:23 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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I guarantee you it is the safest street in NYC these days...................


8 posted on 12/13/2016 11:12:37 AM PST by Red Badger
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Blah blah blah.


9 posted on 12/13/2016 11:12:41 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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The ComPost is exploring new levels of stupid previously deemed impossible to reach.


10 posted on 12/13/2016 11:12:56 AM PST by dirtboy
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The IRS should. Lets see what comes up, same with all the GOP traitor senators. Lets dig up some dirt and shut these idiots up because they only care about themselves and power.


11 posted on 12/13/2016 11:13:13 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Trump20162020

the same could be said of kennybunkport, camp david or any other presidential retreat.

get over it liberals, you LOST.


12 posted on 12/13/2016 11:13:32 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: trisham

If it weren’t for double standards, then they wouldn’t have any standards at all.


13 posted on 12/13/2016 11:13:38 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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“gigantic guns” ??

Yep, that's exactly where I stopped reading...

14 posted on 12/13/2016 11:13:45 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity
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Any cost born by the liberals in new York is well worth it and justly deserved.


15 posted on 12/13/2016 11:13:54 AM PST by WENDLE (Merry CHRISTx.)
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The challenges of securing this 58-story building in a high-density neighborhood will, by Inauguration Day alone, drain $35 million of local taxpayer money. Who knows the additional costs to commerce and property values?

Yep - seizing private property as the solution to expense and logistics - it's right there in the Constitution.

How much is the homeless and illegal problem costing New York in money, time, effort, and property values? Is a gleaming skyscraper helping or hurting compared to a bum urinating in public, actively encouraged by the mayor?

16 posted on 12/13/2016 11:14:07 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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“gigantic guns “

Methinks the writer is unconscionably revealing a sexual obsession via a Freudian slip.


17 posted on 12/13/2016 11:14:36 AM PST by Rebelbase (ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/FOX are THE LEGACY MEDIA)
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Better looking than I expected.

And I actually admire how she makes that metrosexual carry her purse.

18 posted on 12/13/2016 11:14:41 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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Perhaps we should seize the Post for spreading “fake news”.


19 posted on 12/13/2016 11:15:24 AM PST by ealgeone
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Maybe the Trumps should kick the Obamas out of the WH early so he can conduct his business from there? /s


20 posted on 12/13/2016 11:15:27 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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