We don't need no steenking facts! ;-)
Posted on 01/22/2016 12:44:18 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
Please click the link for the video of this report from the Institute for Justice who represented Vera Coking against Donald Trump and won in court. Here is a transcript of the same:
In the video: Dana Berliner of the Institute for Justice (appears to be a property rights advocacy group), Donald Trump, John Stossel, Vera Coking
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Clip of ABC News report playing interviewing Trump.
TRUMP: In life you have a thing called condemnation and cities have the right to condemn for the good of the city - whether it's New York, whether it's Los Angeles, whether it's any other place. Atlantic City is one of those cities and it's got the right to condemn.
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BERLINER: In the 1990s, Donald Trump was behind an outrageous case of eminent domain abuse. Vera Coking was an elderly widow who lived for decades in her home beside Atlantic City's boardwalk. She loved that home, and Donald Trump wanted Vera's home so he could put in limousine parking for his casino across the street.
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TRUMP: Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees that property and it's not fair to Atlantic City and the people. They're staring at this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good.
STOSSEL: You're bullying these people out because they're -
TRUMP: Excuse me - that's wrong. For you to use the word 'bully', John, is very unfair. This is a government case - this is not Donald Trump.
STOSSEL: Yes it's Donald Trump - it's you and your cronies in government working together.
TRUMP: For you to call these people cronies is very unfair - to call good public servants cronies.
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BERLINER: An unaccountable state agency tried to condemn Vera Coking's property and transfer it to Donald Trump. He convinced the government officials to use their eminent domain power to take Vera's home. This was public power - but used for private gain.
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TRUMP: We have been so nice to this woman. I offered her a lot of money - out of this (pointing to chest) - a little thing called 'heart'
COKING: Heart??? He doesn't have no heart, that man. The only thing he has - is what he's - worry about himself.
STOSSEL: Basic to freedom is that you if you own something - it's yours - the government just doesn't come and take it away from you!
TRUMP: Do you want to live in a city where you can't build schools? Do you want to live in a city where you can't build roads or highways or have access to hospitals? Condemnation is a necessary evil.
STOSSEL: But you're not talking about a hospital! You're talking about a building a rich guy finds ugly.
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BERLINER: Across the country, land hungry developers have teamed up with tax hungry politicians to bulldoze people's homes and businesses on the mere possibility that the new, wealthier businesses will generate more jobs or more taxes. It is time to end this kind of abuse. Represented by the Institute for Justice, Vera Coking beat Donald Trump and saved her home.
Cruz said the Keystone Pipeline should be approved. He NEVER said emminent domain shuld be used to acquire the right of way for the property to build it. It’s a huge difference.
I noticed that you simply ignored the fact that Trump tried to use crony capitalism to take this woman’s property. I’d like to hear you justify that.
The case was all about Donald Trump. He was the one who would have benefitted from it and he pressured the city to use its emminent domain power in order to get her property against her will. Are you really so stupid as tobeliee otherwise?
...iIrastate pipelines are part of our national defense...
When Red China is the buyer of the oil? Seems more like part of their national defense.
Oh, the MSM and Democrats will destroy him come election time.
He is literally the fat corrupt guy on the Monopoly board.
How many folks would EVER get 3 times the value of their home in a sale!!! This entire story is pure BS!!! You folks are acting like he kicked this poor old lady into the street!!! If it was a property the government wanted I can guarantee the woman would have been in the street with damn near nothing!!! You want to blame ANYONE for this law BLAME the Supreme Court!!!! Me. Trump was being MORE than fair with this woman and that Mr. Cruz knowing the full details of this telling a 1/2 truth is slimy!!! Mr. Trump has been VERY honest about this entire story and has NOT hidden or lied about this!!! Unlike Mr. Cruz who has lied about his filing with the FCC!!!
Red China is NOW the buyer. Previously, the pipeline was going to middle-America.
Now it will go to the Pacific coast.
So it’s OK to kick a widow out of her house if you decide you have thrown enough money at her?
OK. Sounds very authoritarian.
"This is a nationwide epidemic," says Berliner. "We have documented more than 10,000 instances of government taking property from one person to give it to another in just the last five years."
"It is fundamentally wrong, and contrary to the Constitution for the government to take property from one private owner, and hand it over to another private owner, just because the government thinks that person is going to make more productive use of the land," says Bullock.
"Everyone knows that property can be taken for a road. But nobody thinks that property can be taken to give it to their neighbor or the large business down the street for their economic benefit," adds Berliner. "People are shocked when they hear that this is going on around the country."
Outrageous that Donald admits he “Loves Eminent domain”!
Trump: “I fully understand the conservative approach, but I don’t think conservatives fully understand...”
He sure demonstrates a tin ear when it comes to understanding the constitution and any related complexity.
Donald will be authorativative disaster, ruling as an autocrat over we little people.
Guaranteed.
He’s told you flat out told you that, through association, actions and his own words.
He achieves his own interests via the Art of the Deal.
The deal involves Smoozing and BS’ing politicians & bankers, for other people’s money financing and taxpayer funded property tax reduction sweetheart deals.
Whatever it takes!
All to erect his grossly overpriced luxury hotels, office buildings, and golf courses.
Yeah, Donald, member of the elite’s hive, will be such to look after the interests of the middle class /s
Just listen to his own words before he begun his campaign.
RE: “In this campaign he has been asked about eminent domain and his views continue to be consistent - he even took the opportunity to take another swipe at conservatives at the end of this video that if we don’t support it, it’s apparently because we didn’t get it explained to us properly.
I agree with you 100%
The Supreme Court says it’s OK!!! It is the LAW!!!!
More like Dan Rather accurate. Here’s the answer I posted on the other thread two hours ago.
“TRUS-TED”, I don’t think so. Cruz implies Trump took her house, bulldozed it and put up a parking lot. That never happened. Trump wasn’t the only LV investor who wanted the property and she wouldn’t sell. Penthouse publisher offered her $1 million in the ‘70s some 15 or so years before Trump was ever on the scene. Eventually, Trump bought two nearby properties for millions and built his parking lot. In the late 90s, the courts cleared up the loop holes in the law a that particular time due to there was no limits on what the sell of a city owned “eminent domain” gotten property to a developer/person. However, the courts didn’t stop eminent domain properties being sold to individuals. Trump had moved on and sold the building. Coking continued to live in her house, which was by then in even more serious disrepair, another dozen years until she moved to CA. She put the house on the market but no buyer stepped up to pay the $5 million asking price. Four years later, in 2014, it went on the auction block with a final bid of $583K and immediately saw the bulldozers.
No, I don’t like taking someone’s house so bad on Trump and the others even if it was within the law at the time. But Cruz’s ad smells of horse hockey implying Trump stole her house and built a parking lot on it.
He NEVER tried to just TAKE, the property stick a sock in it until you get you facts straight!!!!
Got it.
True, Trump merely tried to steal the widow’s house.
He did eventually lose.
What next, pushing little old ladies in wheelchairs over cliffs?
Trump succeeded in getting the city to use it’s emminent domain power to take the woman’s property so they could sell it to Trump when she wouldn’t sell it to Trump.
There is no other rational conclusion. There was even a lawsuit over the matter and Trump and the city lost. What could be more clear than that?
The real reason he didn't end up with the property is he screwed up his business and it failed, so he didn't need the property anymore. I wouldn't say the system worked.
We don't need no steenking facts! ;-)
BJ CLUNTON DID THIS FOR HIS LIBRARY!
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