Posted on 02/14/2016 11:50:50 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
February 07, 2016
Following attacks from primary rival Jeb Bush about his past use of eminent domain, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Sunday accused the Bush family of using the practice to build a baseball stadium in Texas.
"Eminent domain is a very important thing," Trump said on ABC's "This Week." "Jeb Bush doesn't understand what it means, and if you look into the Bush family – I found this five minutes ago – they used eminent domain for the stadium in Texas, where they own, I guess, a piece of the Texas Rangers."
When host George Stephanopoulos said that was Jeb's brother, former President George W. Bush, Trump said his point still stands.
"That doesn't matter," he said. "It was the Bush family. They used private eminent domain. He didn't tell anybody this. So, I mean, he should have told people."
"Maybe – he probably doesn't know because I don't think he even knows what eminent domain is," he added. "But I just found that out five minutes ago."
The billionaire businessman also refused to recant his support for governmental seizures of private property.
"Eminent domain is important," he said. "You wouldn't have highways, you wouldn't have roadways, you wouldn't have bridges, you wouldn't have hospitals. You wouldn't have anything without it."
He also said the crowd at Saturday night's GOP primary debate was firmly in his corner on the issue.
"The crowd was on my side, except that they were all friends of mine that were donors and special interests and lobbyists, some of whom worked for me in the past," he said.
Why should I be in trouble, Mommy? Jeb stole candy from the gas station too? Pointing to Jeb and saying he did it too doesn’t make it right. Its the logic of a child not a President. It doesn’t matter the reason or the entity pushing it, eminent domain is anathema to anyone who values the right to one’s “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” No one should ever be forced from their own private property. Its not only unamerican, its bad Karma for you to be advocating the virtues of eminent domain. Your day may be coming.
Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 12:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST, 2/14/16:
Trump: Bush family used eminent domain to build a baseball park
Republicans to randomly assign UH debate tickets
Why Donald Trump's vicious attack on George W. Bush was so brutally effective -- and brilliant
Donald Trump Dominates Drudge Report Poll
Milo Yiannopoulos: 'Outright Terrifying' that Facebook Teamed Up with Government to Censor Users
Donald Trump Turned the GOP Debate Into a Cage Match
Trump orders campaign to put negative Cruz ad back up
Trump op-ed from 1999 (A Choice for Human Rights)
Still Report #615 - Fake Boos, Fake Applause
Republicans Debate in South Carolina; Moderator Urged Obama to 'Pulverize' GOP
Dear FRiends, We need your continuing support to keep FR going strong. [FReepathon]
Donald Trump Defends Planned Parenthood Funding, Impeaching G. W. Bush, at GOP Debate
Post Debate Thoughts - RNC Head Reince Priebus Becomes Trump's Greatest Ally [Sundance]
Poll: South Carolina still solidly for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump: Bush Admin: "Everything is A Lie" (From 2007)
Poll: South Carolina still solidly for Donald Trump (Trump 42, Cruz 20, Rubio 15, Kasich 9, Jeb 6)
WOW! Trump Takes On Debate Audience as 'Jeb's Special Interests and Operatives' (VIDEO)
Twitter Is Gearing Up to Interfere in the Election
Trump Goes Code Pink on George W. Bush
Donald Trump on choosing Justice Scalia's replacement: 'Delay, delay, delay'
Krauthammer: CBS Republican Debate Was "Thermonuclear War," "We Went From WWE To The UFC"
Donald Trump claims George W Bush lied about WMDs to justify Iraq invasion
Grading the South Carolina Debate: Trump, Carson, Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, Bush
Donald Trump Says He'd Consider These Two Judges for U.S. Supreme Court
Flashback: Donald Trump Makes Donation To Ted Cruz [April 2014]
Wild GOP debate repeatedly goes off the rails as candidates shred each other on stage [see post 2: Trump won 6 polls]
Idaho Republican presidential primary tough to predict
The anybody-but-Cruz-or-Trump move is coming soon
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz Campaigns Bash RNC for Stacking Audience with Pro-Amnesty Donor Class
Glenn Beck Goes Nuclear on 'Narcissistic Psychopath' Donald Trump
Malkin: RNC Approved Debate Moderator: Beltway Elitist John "Pulverizer" Dickerson
The Republican establishment packed the debate audience with Donald Trump haters
Donald Trump set to come under attack over Vietnam deferments
Trump Only Candidate to Address 1,400 Indianapolis Workers Whose Jobs Are Being Sent to Mexico
Why do I call him Rafael? You’re joking right?
Ted Serious brother.
Orpheus is an old family name here
What do you have against calling him Rafael? Is that bad juju? Is his first name off limits?
As Chico Marx once said: “Euripides You menda these”
Just asking why you pick that target
What do you have against calling him Rafael? Is that bad juju? Is his first name off limits?
You’re evading the question.
This was actually one of Jeb’s better moments. He took the opportunity to separate himself from his brother, to promote a conservative idea, and to display some consistency.
Of course, the Trump people will probably argue that that disqualifies him and shows him to be am insider hypocrite.
This was actually one of Jeb’s better moments. He took the opportunity to separate himself from his brother, to promote a conservative idea, and to display some consistency.
Of course, the Trump people will probably argue that that disqualifies him and shows him to be am insider hypocrite.
This was actually one of Jeb’s better moments. He took the opportunity to separate himself from his brother, to promote a conservative idea, and to display some consistency.
Of course, the Trump people will probably argue that that disqualifies him and shows him to be am insider hypocrite.
You use his middle name for a reason.
His name is Ted, his fathers name is Raphael are the two one in the same ? And what is wrong with Raphael Cruz?
My mistake his birth name is Raphael.
I still dont get the relevance.
You don't even know the first name of the candidate you allegedly support.
I think you need to take a long break.
I think snarking is bad politics
I think you posting without a clue does not do your position any favors.
How is it possibly you don’t even know the first name of the candidate you support? Wowza.
Facts don’t mean a lot to Trump. He admitted he only learned about it 5 minutes before the debate, so he really didn’t care to check it out - it just agreed with his story, so he ran with it. He spends a lot of time shouting that he is not a politician, but he sure acts like one.
OK oK
Its damned Tx thang where everyone uses their middle names or what ever
But Trump is a Huckster
You know it we all know it
They are all hucksters, and we have to pick the least poison pill
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