Exactly! Trump was using eminent domain to kick her out of her house! She had to hire lawyers and spend time fighting to keep her house. That is un-American. Especially for a casino parking lot.
When Coking refused to sell to Trump, the city of Atlantic City condemned her house, using the power of eminent domain. Her designated compensation was to be $251,000,[4] about one quarter of what Guccione had offered her 10 years earlier.
With the assistance of the Institute for Justice, Coking fought the local authorities, and eventually prevailed.[5] Superior Court Judge Richard Williams ruled that, because there were âno limitsâ on what Trump could do with the property, the plan to take Cokingâs property did not meet the test of law. But Williamsâ ruling did not reject the practice of using eminent domain to take private property from one individual and transferring it to another, which would eventually be upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Kelo v. City of New London.