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Donald Trump defends his vocal support for eminent domain: ‘I think it’s a wonderful thing’
Washington Post ^ | 10/06/2015 | By Jenna Johnson

Posted on 10/06/2015 5:48:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Even though it's a stance not especially popular with some Republicans, Donald Trump continued to support eminent domain in an interview on Tuesday, calling it "a wonderful thing" that has unfairly received a bad rap.

Trump, a billionaire known for his major real estate development projects, described eminent domain as a useful tool that local governments can use to prevent greedy homeowners from derailing major projects that could create thousands of jobs or provide a public good. Trump said that some conservatives don't fully understand how eminent domain works and don't realize that homeowners are usually paid "four, five, six, ten times" what their property is actually worth.

"Eminent domain, when it comes to jobs, roads, the public good, I think it's a wonderful thing," Trump said during an interview with Fox News's Bret Baier that aired Tuesday evening. "And remember, you're not taking property… you're paying a fortune for that property."

Trump's support of eminent domain, along with his use of the practice professionally, has prompted some criticism from conservatives.Republican presidential rival Rand Paul has slammed Trump over his eminent domain views, calling the mogul “a big fan” of the practice who has “shown no consideration for small private property owners."

The super PAC for the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative advocacy group, recently aired television advertisements in Iowa that accuse Trump of supporting "eminent domain abuse" that would allow him to "make millions while we lose our property rights." Trump said the Club for Growth's attacks have come only because he refused to donate $1 million to their cause. He added that the spots are "not right" and do not accurately explain eminent domain.

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To: SeekAndFind
Aren't you a paid DC establishment poster who peddles the garbage from
Salem Media , which peddles the Rubio, Bush,and Carly propaganda ?

But Glad to see you outed yourself as the DC establishment troll .
I assume you were one.

101 posted on 10/06/2015 6:31:00 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
I don't think that's the word you want.

I made that mistake twice as you'll find later. I won't do it again.
102 posted on 10/06/2015 6:31:23 PM PDT by JoSixChip
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To: ScottinVA
I wasn't involved in the Kelo discussions but my position would have been that it's up to the courts to interpret the law. I may not have agreed with the decision. I also don't agree with the Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and homosexual marriage.

All the more reason we need a conservative president in position to reverse the tide of liberal SC justices that currently compose the majority in our Supreme Court.

103 posted on 10/06/2015 6:31:29 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: driftless2

Taken away or paid for? We will likely soon have the state purchase our home for a bypass. Am I happy? No but it isn’t confiscated. We will be paid.


104 posted on 10/06/2015 6:31:38 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: 1010RD

I could wish all Democrats were union Democrats. As it is, Democrats are selling workers down the river.

You want perfection, you will squeal powerlessly in a corner till you get it, which will be never.


105 posted on 10/06/2015 6:32:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: kvanbrunt2

“Increased [tax] revenue is not a public good.”

You say it, you own it


106 posted on 10/06/2015 6:33:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 1010RD
Your a Billionaire Bag boy Rubio poster !
That's hope for who outside the entire third world invaders and Zuckerberg !
107 posted on 10/06/2015 6:33:25 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

No. It is not one or the other. Think about it for awhile. Things may be the fruit, the evidence, of a person’s freedom. That is not the same thing as defining WHY they choose what they chose or why they do what they do or who they intrinsically are.

I would define myself based on my Christianity, on my beliefs, on my family, etc... and nothing else. But my liberty is evidenced in the entire array of choices that I make, including my property. If my property can be taken by force, then some of my personal liberty has been taken by force.


108 posted on 10/06/2015 6:34:07 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: 1010RD

Amazing to watch people who call themselves conservatives support a candidate who is willing to use government power to steal from the weak. If you fail private property, you fail everything. This moral blind spot will grow into a massive abuse of power. It’s a serious, serious character failure - or used to be, among small-government conservatives. Shame.

Behold, the power of a cult of personality. I’ve always been fascinated by the times in the history books when one erupts, but never thought I’d get to see one on American soil - and among the “conservatives”, no less.

By the way, Trump is not going to deport the Mexicans, nor is he going to build a wall. He is the candidate most likely to ignore his own rhetoric a month after he says it.


109 posted on 10/06/2015 6:35:31 PM PDT by Taliesan
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Maybe the entire concept of ED is then wrong, and quibbles over when its qualifications are met are just that, quibbles that miss the point.

How about let’s get it banned by constitutional amendment then? Totally?


110 posted on 10/06/2015 6:35:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

See post #2 above for the reasoning as to why this doesn’t matter.>>>>

it matters to me and i wish he would stay very far away. bier knew where to go and even wanted to get off the subject. but Trump kept at it. not good. he should avoid this topic. he has only a limited understanding of the topic and if he has the opportunity needs a check in with Cruz on it.


111 posted on 10/06/2015 6:36:01 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: Taliesan
By the way, Trump is not going to deport the Mexicans, nor is he going to build a wall. He is the candidate most likely to ignore his own rhetoric a month after he says it.

Method for arriving at this conclusion, please?

112 posted on 10/06/2015 6:36:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Yes.


113 posted on 10/06/2015 6:36:46 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t need perfection, nor do I need your strawman arguments. I don’t vote for Democrats in the Republican primary.


114 posted on 10/06/2015 6:37:17 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: MNDude
I concur.

The govt may play a role as mediator, and that is the local govt, as a representative of the local people.

I may have a similar problem brewing with my business in a few years.

I do have a great problem if a private developer or landholder/businessman wants another adjacent property for themselves and wants to steal it.......In the end, I cannot see one law fitting all possibilities. That's why lawyers get fat.

115 posted on 10/06/2015 6:38:11 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: 1010RD

You have a hobby horse you are riding to an utter destruction of America and then where will even a semblance of your property rights be?

Look at who is gathering the power.


116 posted on 10/06/2015 6:38:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ncalburt

Excellent and thanks for your use of exclamation points. They clarify what otherwise would just be gibberish intelligible only to the poster himself.


117 posted on 10/06/2015 6:38:33 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Starstruck
When we throw the little guy under the bus so a billionaire can make a couple of million more

Aha! The public good!

118 posted on 10/06/2015 6:38:40 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: All

The best place to practice eminent domain is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now there’s some property to be confiscated in the public good.


119 posted on 10/06/2015 6:39:38 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (I just found Revelations Chapter 23 and guess what?)
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To: SeekAndFind

When you get 10 20 times what your house is worth who can be against it?


120 posted on 10/06/2015 6:39:40 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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