[CA Conservative]

You can argue whether it is appropriate to use eminent domain for a city-owned stadium - personally I have my doubts. But no matter how you feel on that issue, it is factually incorrect for Trump to say the Bush family used eminent domain. You might even say Trump lied.

There is also a major difference between the ball park issue and Trump's attempt to use eminent domain. In this instance the park is still owned by the city; in Trump's case, he would have owned the property.

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GWB and therefore his estate profited handily from actions by the State of Texas (eminent domain authority) and the city of Arlington (sales tax increase).

The stadium that benefitted the team he part-owned was not financed by accident.

[Republican Wildcat]

He probably just "misspoke." Just like he "misspoke" during the debate when he claimed he didn't buy the widow's property merely because she didn't want to sell - when in reality it was by a judge's order blocking the effort.