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Trump Spokesperson Says Ted Cruz Eminent Domain Attack Ad ‘Outright Lies’
Breit Bart ^ | 1-23-16 | by Michael Patrick Leahy

Posted on 01/24/2016 12:44:34 PM PST by dynoman

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The actual summation statement in the thread, at the ad site, and in Ted's tweet;

"This is actually a pretty good ad exposing how Trump has used eminent domain to bulldoze an elderly woman's home to create a limo parking lot for his casino:"

That is an outright lie.

1 posted on 01/24/2016 12:44:34 PM PST by dynoman
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To: dynoman

Read and see the unbelievable contortions some go though to avoid admitting the statement is a lie;
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3387649/posts?page=13#13


2 posted on 01/24/2016 12:45:37 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

The actual summation statement in the thread, at the ad site, and in Ted’s tweet;
“This is actually a pretty good ad exposing how Trump has used eminent domain to bulldoze an elderly woman’s home to create a limo parking lot for his casino:”

That is an outright lie.
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Cruz is using lies now...he is desperate.


3 posted on 01/24/2016 12:46:25 PM PST by calisurfer
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To: All

Trump on the Cruz ad yesterday in Pella IA;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh8-8ZakkMo&feature=player_detailpage#t=3992


4 posted on 01/24/2016 12:48:16 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

What a mess this guy is.


5 posted on 01/24/2016 12:49:48 PM PST by proust (Texan for Trump! Born in the USA!)
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To: dynoman

Yep the house wasn’t bull dozed.


6 posted on 01/24/2016 12:50:40 PM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: dynoman

Wow, they must really be worried about this one sticking. Truth hurts, though - semantics won’t save him on this one.


7 posted on 01/24/2016 12:52:06 PM PST by HoosierDammit ("When that big rock n' roll clock strikes 12, I will be buried with my Tele on!" Bruce Springsteen)
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To: calisurfer

“I am Glenn Beck’s friend, and I approved this message”


8 posted on 01/24/2016 12:52:30 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first ande then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: dynoman
Ted's tweet - it's still up.

"Ad exposing how Trump has used eminent domain to bulldoze an elderly woman's home to create a limo parking lot" ; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 22, 2016


9 posted on 01/24/2016 12:54:10 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Red Steel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Coking

Ad is a lie - Trump never bull dozed it, never bought it.

Years later It was bull dozed... in 2014 after it was sold in an auction.

The buyer was Carl Ichan...


10 posted on 01/24/2016 12:54:56 PM PST by SteveSCH
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To: calisurfer
Glen Beck uses fake tweets to attack Trump

Cruz uses fake information in an ad to attack Trump.

No wonder these two are bosom buddies


11 posted on 01/24/2016 12:55:06 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trumpbots Vs. Cruznadians - the struggle is real.)
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To: dynoman

The ad does not say the home was “bulldozed”. Anybody that’s says it did is lying.


12 posted on 01/24/2016 12:56:37 PM PST by jwalsh07 (.w)
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And a copy of Trump’s offer is where?

Trump’s word alone is not enough. If he said he would have paid $5 million, I bet she would have taken it. Trump probably wanted it for a fraction of the value. No other reason he tried to use eminent domain to get it.


13 posted on 01/24/2016 12:56:39 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: jwalsh07

Did you not read Ted’s tweet?


14 posted on 01/24/2016 12:59:21 PM PST by SteveSCH
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Without eminent domain, no large metropolitan airports would have been possible, our magnificent Interstate Highway system would be impossible, most large hospitals and schools would not be here, not to mention huge financial centers in New York, Chicago & Los Angeles.

Keystone pipeline, a private enterprise, would require confiscation of thousands of farms and homes. Eminent domain is a prosperity creator.

Some people do not place prosperity high on their agenda, both on far left and far right.


15 posted on 01/24/2016 1:00:26 PM PST by entropy12 (Abdul Aziz born in Saudi Arabia to Saudi father and American mother is Natural Born Citizen? Really?)
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To: dynoman

Great ad. The truth hurts.


16 posted on 01/24/2016 1:00:56 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SteveSCH

Can you read at all? I didn’t mention Teds tweet.


17 posted on 01/24/2016 1:02:17 PM PST by jwalsh07 (.w)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ...

Vera Coking
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Coking

Vera Coking is a retired homeowner in Atlantic City, New Jersey whose home was the focus of a prominent eminent domain case involving Donald Trump.

In 1961, Coking and her husband bought the property at 127 South Columbia Place as a summertime retreat for $20,000.

In the 1970s, Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione offered Coking $1 million for her property in order to build the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino. She declined the offer, and Guccione started construction of the hotel-casino in 1978 around the Coking house, but ran out of money in 1980 and construction stopped. The steel framework structure was finally torn down in 1993.

In 1993, Donald Trump bought several lots around his Atlantic City casino and hotel, intending to build a parking lot designed for limousines. Coking, who had lived in her house at that time for about 35 years, refused to sell. When Coking refused to sell to Trump, the city of Atlantic City condemned her house, using the power of eminent domain. Her designated compensation was to be $251,000, about one quarter of what Guccione had offered her 10 years earlier.

With the assistance of the Institute for Justice, Coking fought the local authorities, and eventually prevailed. Superior Court Judge Richard Williams ruled that, because there were “no limits” on what Trump could do with the property, the plan to take Coking’s property did not meet the test of law. But Williams’ ruling did not reject the practice of using eminent domain to take private property from one individual and transferring it to another, which would eventually be upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Kelo v. City of New London.

Two other properties that prevailed against eminent domain eventually did sell: Sabatini’s restaurant received $2.1 million and a pawnshop sold for $1.6 million. Their lots became part of a large lawn flanking a taxi stand for Trump’s casino. Coking remained in her house until 2010, when she moved to a retirement home in the San Francisco Bay Area near her grandson, Ed Casey.

Casey subsequently tried to sell the house, putting it on the market in 2011 with an initial asking price of $5 million. By September 2013 the price had reduced to $1 million, but it still did not sell as Atlantic City continued to suffer the lingering effects of the financial crisis of 2007-08 and over-building during the boom that preceded it.

The property was finally sold for $530,000 in an auction on July 31, 2014. Neither the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority nor the owners of Trump Plaza expressed any interest in the auction. The buyer was Carl Icahn, who held the debt on Trump Entertainment, owner of Trump Plaza. He subsequently demolished the house.

The adjacent Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, the property for which Trump wanted Coking’s property to begin with, closed on September 16, 2014 due to lack of business.


18 posted on 01/24/2016 1:02:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SeaHawkFan

Trumpistas just don’t get it. Anybody with any knowledge of real estate law knows there are six rights of property ownership - to sell, to lease, to use, to give away, to enter and exit, and (most importantly here) the right to refuse all of them. Mrs. Coking exercised this right. Trump, not liking her answer, sought then to use government’s authority to deny her of those rights. It is disgusting, unamerican, and he’s right to be defensive about it - it’s that abhorrent.

Think about it - Mrs. Coking was stubborn, and won in the end; how much did it cost her to defend her rights, though? What would’ve happened to her if she couldn’t afford it?

The fact that Donny is still proud of this charade should tell everybody what a disgusting prick he really is.


19 posted on 01/24/2016 1:04:31 PM PST by HoosierDammit ("When that big rock n' roll clock strikes 12, I will be buried with my Tele on!" Bruce Springsteen)
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To: jwalsh07
Trump has used eminent domain to bulldoze an elderly woman's home to create a limo parking lot for his casino:"

I have used Rogaine to grow hair on my head.

....................It didn't work.

20 posted on 01/24/2016 1:04:34 PM PST by FreeReign
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