[Yosemitest]

I was one of the ones that argued against was Trump did to Vera Coking.

Vera Coking walks past Donald Trump, obscured against wall at left, in a courtroom hallway
at Atlantic County Superior Court on Feb. 13, 1997.
... Trump wanted Coking's house - - not to live in, but as a place to park limousines for his casino next door.

"It is a classic case of a schoolyard bully growing up," said Clint Bolick, who co-founded the legal institute that defended Coking in a 1990s lawsuit with Trump ... "He's a thug."

Coking and her husband bought the white, three-story house at 127 Columbia Pl. in 1961, long before the area was transformed by mega-casinos.
She raised her children there.
For a time, she operated it as a boarding house.

... Coking, who is now more than 90 years old and was not available to be interviewed, was having none of it.
This was her "dream house," said Dana Berliner ...

Coking held firm, even as the 22-story Trump Plaza soared outside her windows with its ever-flashing lights.
The house was deteriorating, but Coking's will wasn't.
Demolition crews had set fire to her roof, broken windows and smashed up much of the third floor, according to her attorneys.
Still, she didn't move.

... Trump, Coking and the casino authority pounded away at one another in court.
Then, one day in the summer of 1998, the Superior Court of New Jersey put an end to the conflict.
The court ruled that the casino authority and Trump were wrong.
The government couldn't take Coking's house and let Trump have it.

That kind of ABUSE of "eminent domain" is wrong, and the court ruled against Trump.

Now, the border wall is about NATIONAL SECURITY, not taking property so a PRIVATE COMPANY can make money.

Do you have any more STUPID questions ?

[blueplum]

you’re seriously not going to bring up Coking are u? the one with the rotting boarding house that Wyatt (I think it was Wyatt - been a while) built a steel framework completely around, with the intent of putting a parking garage Above her, and that sued to KEEP the gawkish framework around her house when Trump offered to tear the structure down - and then sued Trump for removing it and allowing daylight in the windows for the first time in 20 years while also putting a park next door for her? that Coking? cry me a river on that grifter. A few other details - the third floor had been uninhabitable for some time before Trump got involved, and there were numerous broken and boarded/painted up windows (probably why she didn’t want the steel structure removed) evidenced in before and after photos and she was years behind on taxes. So while the city couldn’t possess for taxes solely to sell to Trump, it would have been Trump’s right, along with any other private citizen, to purchase the property at a tax lein sale to the highest bidder. And had she not had a lawyer that brought Trump in as a red herring on the tax issue for the media to dine on, she’d have had no continuance and she’d have lost the house for nonpayment with nary a sentence in the local paper other than, another eyesore is gone.

[BobL]

I love how his HAIR is still protruding, even though he’s otherwise completely blocked.