Donald Trump Saved A Woman's Farm From Foreclosure

Buzzfeed ^ | 8/22/2015 | Mark Arce and Andrew Kaczynski

[miss marmelstein]

Typical hard-ball New York style - used for a good cause. Reminds me of an old pal of mine - a crony of Roy Cohn - who would often use his newspaper column and lawyer skills to right wrongs. When these types of people do good, they’re gold. When they’re bad, they’re awful.

[TexasFreeper2009]

oh man... this is starting to remind me more and more of Obama’s first presidential campaign, with his followers claiming he would save them and give them free stuff from his “stash”

[DJ MacWoW]

Wow. That comparison was a reach.

[trebb]

Say wha????

Any gerbils up where you pulled that "analogy" from?

[FR_addict]

Good Story. Thanks for post.

[conservativejoy]

This was 1986. I was impressed that Trump acted on behalf of this lady by using his negotiating skills and saved her farm. Read last night where a guy wouldn’t take anything when he fixed Trump’s flat tire and Trump paid off his mortgage.

You would never hear anything like that about Obama whose own brother lives in poverty.

[DesertRhino]

I like that instead of just writing a check, he lead the effort, and made up the difference at the end.

[mkjessup]

You're the second poster I've seen in the past 24 hours trying to suggest that Trump and Obama are essentially the same kind of candidate.

TDS - get professional help son.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Donald Trump and Eminent Domain http://www.nationalreview.com/article/265171/donald-trump-and-eminent-domain-robert-verbruggen ROBERT VERBRUGGEN April 19, 2011 3:30 PM A brief history In a free market, there’s a pretty simple process for dealing with the situation that arises when one person covets another’s belongings: The coveter makes an offer to purchase them. If the offer is rebuffed, the coveter can make a new proposal, but he cannot simply take what he wants. It’s an effective way of recognizing the impracticality of the Tenth Commandment while enforcing the Eighth.
Donald Trump’s covetous nature is not in dispute, but what many may forget is that he’s no great respecter of the admonition not to steal, either: The man has a track record of using the government as a hired thug to take other people’s property.
This is called, of course, “eminent domain.” The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment allows the government to take private property for “public use,” so long as “just compensation” is paid. In the infamous 2005 Kelo decision, the Supreme Court held that “public use” could include, well, private use, so long as the new property owner paid more in taxes than the previous one. In other words, it allowed developers and the government to gang up on homeowners. The developer gets more land, the government gets more tax money. The only losers are the original owner and his property rights.
A decade and a half ago, it was fresh on everyone’s mind that Donald Trump is one of the leading users of this form of state-sanctioned thievery. It was all over the news. In perhaps the most-remembered example, John Stossel got the toupéed one to sputter about how, if he wasn’t allowed to steal an elderly widow’s house to expand an Atlantic City casino, the government would get less tax money, and seniors like her would get less “this and that.” Today, however, it takes a push from the Club for Growth to remind us of Trump’s lack of respect for property rights.
The problem dates back to at least 1994. That year, Trump promised to turn Bridgeport, Conn., into“a national tourist destination by building a $350 million combined amusement park, shipping terminal and seaport village and office complex on the east side of the harbor,” reported the Hartford Courant. “At a press conference during which almost every statement contained the term ‘world class,’ Trump and Mayor Joseph Ganim lavished praise on one another and the development project and spoke of restoring Bridgeport to its glory days.”
The wrinkle? “Five businesses and the city-owned Pleasure Beach now occupy the land,” as the Courant put it. The solution? “The city would become a partner with Trump Connecticut Inc. and obtain the land through its powers of condemnation. Trump would in turn buy the land from the city.”
Here’s how the story concluded: “The entire development would cost the city nothing, Trump said, and no private homeowners would be affected because there are no dwellings on the land. Trump would own everything.”
That brings us to the story of the aforementioned elderly widow in Atlantic City, which starts at about the same time. The woman, Vera Coking, had owned property near the Trump Plaza Hotel for three decades, and didn’t want to move. Trump thought the land was better suited for use as a park, a parking lot, and a waiting area for limousines.
He tried to negotiate, at one point offering Coking $1 million for the land. But she wasn’t budging. So New Jersey’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority filed a lawsuit, instructing Coking to leave within 90 days and offering compensation of only $251,000.
Perhaps the only upside to this story is that in neither case did Trump succeed. The Bridgeport plan fizzled. Coking fought in court, and — in part because these were the days before Kelo was decided, no doubt — she was lucky enough to win. In 1998, a judge threw out the case.
In 2005, however, Trump was delighted to find that the Supreme Court had okayed the brand of government-abetted theft that he’d twice attempted. “I happen to agree with it 100 percent,” he told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto of the Kelo decision.
Can Republicans support someone with so little regard for the property of others? Let’s hope not. ____ I can't for a number of reasons.

[exit82]

Trump started with a businesslike approach, and when the Southern banker dissed him, Trump responded with hardball.

Fixed the situation in a New York minute.

He steps up to help people, probably more than we know.

And he helped Sgt. Tamorresi(sp) after his release from a Mexican jail.

More and more Trump indicates that he is this race for the right reasons.

And that is, to make America great again.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Is that you again, Jeb?

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

What a nice post, ty! Trump’s the real deal.

Let’s hear the stories of Jeb or others doing similar. Oh wait....*crickets*

[Fantasywriter]

The biggest thing lacking in any Obama campaign was even one single person saying he ever did anything nice for them. Not even one person in the community he ‘organized’ told a story about how Obama left things in better shape than he found them. Not one person, ever.

Your comparison is stupid at best.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Trump on imminent Domain only 10 years go - ““I happen to agree with it 100 percent.”

She can have her farm, as long as it’s not in the way of plans for a parking lot.

[milkncookies]

Did you type that from somewhere deep in Hildabeast’s pantsuit or did your mother feed you paint chips as a kid?

[TexasFreeper2009]

People on the right are desperate and are looking for a “savior” to take command and save America.

It’s a cult of personality, style over substance basically.

Obama has possibly changed American politics forever, it seems that both sides will now only embrace these “man on a white horse” type candidates.

We are reaching the end of the Democratic experiment, I fear for the future of our country, this wont end well.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Yeah, it’s odd, it’s like “Here’s the gospel of Trump!”.

If you step out of line here in Freepville around certain crowds, everything about you is questioned and you’re thrown into the pile of lurkers and goons just out to cause an issue.

It’s a scary thing to see this radicalized unquestioning idolization a man.

[Balding_Eagle]

You’re a turd in the punch bowl.

And if you want to know who it was that hit the abuse button to complain about your abuse on this thread about a real life feel good story about Donald, it was me.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Abuse? Yeah, showing reality I guess on a political forum to some cultists would seem abusive.