First of all, you don’t need eminent domain to build the pipeline. The Koch brothers have built a lot of them without ever using eminent domain. You just route and re-route.
Second,energy — the free flow of oil at market prices — is related to national security. If the supply is too small, the price goes too high and the hostile Middle Eastern Islamofascist regimes have us over a barrel, so to speak.
So it’s a completely different thing from what Trump did.
Not a soul on the debate stage disageed that eminent domain would be needed. I assume you are not an engineer. Imagine the cost of routing and rerouting and it would go in to someone’s property. Another Cruzer protecting him from reality.