Leading in to the Iowa caucuses, opponents of Donald Trump began to hit him for his support of eminent domain. Not just any kind of eminent domain (road, bridge, etc.) but for trying to take an old woman’s house for a parking lot for his (now failed) casino.
Blogger Neo-Neocon writes, there’s more than just New Jersey’s Vera Coking, who not only defeated Trump, but was able to stay in her home until 2010 before she moved to a retirement home.
Trump acted similarly in Scotland when building his golf course there:
…much more recently Trump tried to do virtually the same thing to people living near—noton but near—a luxury golf course and resort he was planning in Scotland. So this story had an international flavor. Again, Trump wanted to buy their property, despite their adamant refusal to sell, because they lived near his planned golf course and he felt that they homes would spoil the view for his wealthy clients. In Scotland as in Atlantic City, Trump again tried to get an agency of local government to condemn their homes and evict them. This time, Trump also let loose with a fusillade of very personal insults toward some of the holdouts themselves, as well as their property, insults that were considerably worse than what he’d said about the home of Vera Coking. Among the insults he leveled against one man in particular in Scotland named Michael Forbes was to say he was “the village idiot” and that he “lives like a pig.” There are many videos about the incident available on YouTube, nearly all of them taken from a documentary entitled “You’ve Been Trumped” that was made in 2011 (the entire film is available at YouTube, as well…
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