Quote:You are woefully misinformed.   Trump has stated he loves eminent domain.   In fact, he loves it so much, he loves the fact that the Supreme Court has expanded the use far beyond what the framers intended. 

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimblasingam...ee68da5efd

 

“Eminent domain is wonderful.” This is a recent quote from presidential candidate and billionaire developer, Donald Trump. It’s a position he’ll have to defend within and without his party.

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More recently, local governments have appropriated this power for themselves in favor – directly or indirectly – of one private party over another by exchanging “public use” for “public needs.” If your property is in the way of a city-approved private development, they might declare that it serves the public needs to condemn your property if you refuse to sell. Until 2005, a property owner could stand behind the “public use” defense from an overreaching municipality. But in the shocking Kelo v New London Supreme Court decision the majority contrived a position that diluted the Framers’ intention for eminent domain into the position that simple “public needs” justified the taking of private property.

 

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Eminent domain is debatable when the government needs to build a road.   But what about when a developer needs to acquire property in order to build something non-governmental?   Like a parking garage for a casino.   Trump did that.  

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree...idow-house

 

"The billionaire mogul-turned-reality TV celebrity, who says he wants to work on behalf of “the silent majority,” has had no compunction about benefiting from the coercive power of the state to kick innocent Americans out of their homes.

For more than 30 years Vera Coking lived in a three-story house just off the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Donald Trump built his 22-story Trump Plaza next door. In the mid-1990s Trump wanted to build a limousine parking lot for the hotel, so he bought several nearby properties. But three owners, including the by then elderly and widowed Ms Coking, refused to sell.

As his daughter Ivanka said in introducing him at his campaign announcement, Donald Trump doesn’t take no for an answer.

Trump turned to a government agency – the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) – to take Coking’s property. CRDA offered her $250,000 for the property – one-fourth of what another hotel builder had offered her a decade earlier. When she turned that down, the agency went into court to claim her property under eminent domain so that Trump could pave it and put up a parking lot.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact...dows-home/

 

Trump: “If somebody has a property in the middle of a 7,000 job factory, as an example, that’s going to move into the town — but they need this one corner of this property, and it’s going to provide 7,000 jobs in a community that’s dying, of which we have many in this country, okay? I am for that.”

 

“When you think about eminent domain, so if you go to the login, if you go to Keystone Pipeline [website] and the sales pitch, you’ll see a whole section on eminent domain: ‘Yes, we have to use the power of eminent domain.’ Because you’ve got to go through hundreds of private properties to get the pipeline. The only way you can do it is through eminent domain. I don’t love eminent domain, but you need it.”

 

It’s a juicy story: Trump convinced the government to bulldoze a woman’s home and force her out of it. Trump certainly tried, but he didn’t succeed. Moreover, the Cruz campaign continues to mislead the public by not making it clear that the state Superior Court ruled in the woman’s favor, and it takes Trump’s comments out of context.

 

This ad is a classic example of cherry-picking video footage and quotes from news articles to craft an attack message. Other candidates, most recently evidenced by Jeb Bush, have figured out how to use the facts to attack Trump over this case and his support for eminent domain — but Cruz still appears to insist on twisting the facts to achieve the same.

 

We award the Cruz campaign Two Pinocchios for employing a combination of attack ad tactics that creates a misleading impression.

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