Where did Trump use emminant domain?
"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.
................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.