Trump still had no control.
It is really hard for me to understand the obsession with that decision.
I hope you never run afoul of our current drug laws, which allow law enforcement to take everything you have before you ever go to trial, or the IRS that will seize everything you have in a second if you don’t cross every T or dot every i.
But Trump drove the decision to do it. They did it because he wanted them to do it.
And, people pay attention to it now, because, as others have noted, Trump has not held office before. He has no track record as an officeholder; his track record is his business career. So, if you want to figure out what he believes about the proper role of government, etc., looking at things like his own use of eminent domain is a pretty good place to start.