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The Playboy Bully of the Western World (Trump used eminent domain for golf course)
National Review ^ | February 22, 2016 | Ian Tuttle

Posted on 02/22/2016 9:18:46 AM PST by reaganaut1

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Abutting the land Trump hoped to develop were four residences owned and occupied by locals not inclined to move: David Milne, Susan Munro, Michael Forbes, and then-octogenarian Molly Forbes (whose home was on Michael’s land). Trump wanted them out. The tactics he employed toward that end mirrored Vera Coking’s case almost exactly.

Two properties provoked Trump’s particular ire. David Milne’s home, in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was built in 1954. It was then a Coast Guard station, occupying the same spot on which another Coast Guard station had stood, going back to the 1860s. Trump thought it was an eyesore. Likewise a house and several outbuildings owned by Michael Forbes, a salmon fisherman who had left school at 14 to learn his trade, and whose family had lived in the area for several generations. “His property is terribly maintained,” Trump told reporters. “It’s slum-like, it’s disgusting. He’s got stuff thrown all over the place. He lives like a pig.”

So, in early 2009, Trump approached the Aberdeenshire Council to suggest that Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) be served to several Menie landowners. CPOs are the United Kingdom’s version of eminent domain, allowing the government to seize private property for public use. The council deferred, pending an inquiry.

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To: stephenjohnbanker

Then they *should* love Trump.

:)


21 posted on 02/22/2016 9:38:03 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: PJBankard

Now, now, don’t go confusing the little dears with the facts.


22 posted on 02/22/2016 9:38:11 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: reaganaut1
Aw Jeez. Don't you think if there was anything to it Cruz would have added it to his campaign ad.


23 posted on 02/22/2016 9:38:31 AM PST by McGruff (Ted Cruz has peaked. Time to get out before Rubio becomes our nominee.)
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To: reaganaut1
A believer in limited government does not use eminent domain to take land for a golf course.

It's this type of character flaw that will turn the majority against him in the general. His followers will ignore this cruel bullying behavior just as they have embraced the Rat talking points for obamacare to support his belief in the individual mandate. We see one red flag after another, but it doesn't slow him down because people are so angry.

It's a shame we seem to blowing another great opportunity to reestablish conservatism as the dominant political belief in this country.

I'm sticking with Cruz. He believes what I believe and he has always stuck by me.

24 posted on 02/22/2016 9:39:27 AM PST by wmfights (a stranger in a hostile and foreign land that used to be my home)
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To: Durbin
I moved to Delray Beach 3 years ago, and soon after I took the boat tour of the Inter-coastal. This was years before Trump even entered politics. On the tour the guide points out a tall condo building that Trump once bought and flipped. As the story goes, he went to a monthly HOA meeting and offered every resident double market value for their units... they all gladly accepted.

I've heard other similar stories about him around the county... not one story from anyone painted him as being anything but fair and completely generous in his dealings around here.

Since these stories were being told BEFORE he entered politics, I tend to believe them more than these articles in publications which clearly have an anti-Trump (anti-anything other than liberal/socialist actually) agenda.

25 posted on 02/22/2016 9:39:37 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: moehoward

"Next time......Definitely!"

26 posted on 02/22/2016 9:40:13 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: reaganaut1

Rumor has it that Trump, once elected, will use executive order and eminent domain to take the entire Island of Hawaii and turn it into Mara Largo II.


27 posted on 02/22/2016 9:42:20 AM PST by Rennes Templar
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To: reaganaut1

yeah, you’d think that, but then we have Trump,anything goes.


28 posted on 02/22/2016 9:42:32 AM PST by annieokie
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To: reaganaut1

List of Former Presidents who used Eminent Domain to Build a Golf Course while in Office.

1.

2.

3.

Here you go.


29 posted on 02/22/2016 9:43:37 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: dead
Yet gullible people believe he's going to use that power to help them

Gullible? Ted Cruz wanted to quintuple the number of H-1B visas. Trump's stance made Ted walk that back.

As a 55 year old IT worker, Trump's campaign has already paid dividends for me, even if he never even gets the nomination, as H-1B visas are probably the greatest threat to my livihood.

If you see that as gullible, well, go p*** up a rope.

30 posted on 02/22/2016 9:43:49 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: dead

DEADOOLER’S perhaps.


31 posted on 02/22/2016 9:43:54 AM PST by annieokie
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To: reaganaut1

Hit piece! Because Jeb is bad, it doesn’t matter what Trump is!


32 posted on 02/22/2016 9:43:58 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: reaganaut1

It wasn’t just his bullying attempt to take over the property, it was his utter disdain for the ‘little’ people occupying it.

All the ‘little’ people who think Trump loves them should think again.


33 posted on 02/22/2016 9:44:48 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Kickass Conservative

List of Former Presidents who support the use of Eminent Domain against private property to enrich their crony capitalist buddies while in Office:

1. Obama

2. Clinton

There ya go.


34 posted on 02/22/2016 9:46:17 AM PST by Stegall Tx (Why are we in this handbasket, and why is it getting so warm? (stolen tagline))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Contradiction in terms.

National Review hates conservatives.

National Review hates Donald Trump.


35 posted on 02/22/2016 9:48:29 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: wmfights

I totally agree. People latched onto Trump because he expressed their rage.

It’s time to get over that initial infatuation and look at who Donald Trump is.


36 posted on 02/22/2016 9:49:53 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Rennes Templar

You mean the Big Island?

Hope he doesn’t take over Maui.


37 posted on 02/22/2016 9:51:00 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: altura

Although Maui would make a really huge golf course.


38 posted on 02/22/2016 9:51:53 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Stegall Tx

Sorry, I asked a specific question. You answered your own question, not mine.

How about Clinton and Obama reclassifying Federal Lands Use to prevent Low Sulphur Coal Mining in Utah and other States?


39 posted on 02/22/2016 9:52:16 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: reaganaut1

This is in another country. Did Trump follow the law there?


40 posted on 02/22/2016 9:57:43 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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