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To: SeekAndFind
This eminent domain line of attack on Trump is just as stupid as the Trump attacks on Cruz's conservatism or his citizenship.

Trump never took anyone’s land.

He is a private citizen with no power to take anything from anyone. The duly elected officials in various locals might have used eminent domain to help achieve their desired goal of revitalizing an area as they said they would do if elected. And Trump might have been the beneficiary of that action. But that is a world apart from claiming Trump took some ladies home. That's BS

8 posted on 02/15/2016 5:26:06 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Trump never took anyone’s land.

Not for lack of trying. Based on your logic, a person who attempts an armed robbery at a bank but doesn't get any money is innocent.

13 posted on 02/15/2016 5:32:30 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: TexasFreeper2009

RE: Trump never took anyone’s land.

He VOCALLY and OPENLY SUPPORTED the taking of someone’s land by force.

Take the KELO case for instance. In the infamous 2005 Kelo decision, the Supreme Court (decision authored by David Souter) 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.

Trump was delighted to find that the Supreme Court had okayed the brand of government-abetted theft. “I happen to agree with it 100 percent,” he told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto of the Kelo decision.

I still wait in vain for him to say he has changed his mind on the KELO decision.


14 posted on 02/15/2016 5:34:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: TexasFreeper2009

That is not factually accurate. It is an ABSOLUTE FACT that Donald Trump supported, and continues to support, the Kelo decision. This is not debatable.

In regard to the issue over the widow - the reason he did not take her land is because a judge put a halt to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmM4ZBoppNQ&list=PLJcbhHQDR9da0H3-Qs-7WEEj6tam9vlh3&index=4 Your argument is akin to arguing that an arsonist is not guilty if someone comes along and puts the fire out before it has a chance to damage or destroy the property.


40 posted on 02/15/2016 5:55:45 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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