http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/billionaire-carl-icahn-buys-atlantic-city-widow-home-article-1.2015994
So who was the smart one in this deal?
You are hilarious. Did you read the article? They claim the ad is misleading because it insinuates that the woman lost her home. However, it admits the truth that Trump spent 4 years in court attempting to steal the woman’s home, but was unsuccessful. His position is clear. If a rich guy wants your property, it’s OK and right for the government to take it from you and give to the rich guy.
Do you read? Trump offered the old woman a MILLION $ for her shack...she refused. The built around the thing. The city finally paid her half that and bulldozed the mess.She was a fool and Trump tried to make her rich.
Great post!
I doubt it will stop the Trump steamroller, but fighting for the individual's liberty and the sovereignty of their property is part of the foundation of conservatism.
“However, it admits the truth that Trump spent 4 years in court attempting to steal the woman’s home, but was unsuccessful. “
So you actually think that eminent domain is theft? Trump doesn’t deny that he lost in the attempt to get the city to purchase the woman’s home through the eminent domain process, but If Trump had been successful, there would have been a “better than you could probably get on the open market price” paid for the property. So just how is that theft? The woman simply didn’t want to sell her home and the courts upheld her right to the decision. And the sleazy cut and past video clips don’t help me to think Cruz is an honest person.
Stealing? He offered good money for the house. He lost the court case and that ended it.
Winner winner chicken dinner! Facts are a messy thing to Trump supporters.
A two million dollar offer for a home is hardly stealing.
That doesn't even make sense.
You're sounding as credible as Ted Cruz about this.
“.... Trump spent 4 years in court attempting to steal the woman’s home, but was unsuccessful.”
You either didn’t read the article, or failed to comprehend, or chose to read into it what you wanted. Note: an individual such as Trump cannot sue under eminent domain. Got it? Trump did not sue the woman, the city did. The suit was brought by the agency overseeing the development of Atlantic City.
You may not have visited ACNJ before gambling was ok’d and the casinos started to be built. It was ramshackle houses, dilapidated buildings and just a wasteland. Much as it is today because gambling never quite cut it in ACNJ. You might call it a $hithole. That is what the government of AC and its agencies were trying to overcome.
But, by all means, let this poor 70 year old lady turn down $1M for her dump of a house. Let ACNJ stay the dump city it is. We can’t have businesses coming along and trying to make them into something desirable, something that employs tens of thousand of people, and brings revenue to the area, making it into an economic powerhouse. Just can’t have that.
Talk about misleading. Steal should be attempting to purchase at quadruple value.
The government steals widows property all the time for such silly things as non payment of taxes, no one seems to care.
No that is not what the article says.
Trump was not a party in the court case.
From the article:
“ In 1994, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, a government agency, attempted to seize an elderly widow’s home. The agency tried to invoke “eminent domain,” which refers to the government’s right to acquire private property for public use.”
“However, it admits the truth that Trump spent 4 years in court attempting to steal the woman’s home, but was unsuccessful. His position is clear. If a rich guy wants your property, it’s OK and right for the government to take it from you and give to the rich guy.”
And not only that, he DID convince a government entity — the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority — to strong arm the widow on his behalf.
No need to try and debunk the rant, I doubt in the first place they reaf the article when it began uncovering the four tears of legal harrassment by the billionare to take the 70 year olds home. Cruz is evil for saying anything against the Trump. Cruz is not a billionare so he is just another peon and held to a higher standard.
The fact that he has not misused government power, or used a battery of lawyers to get his way means nothing to the might makes right croud. Cruz is a sleeze for even mentioning it.
They clearly worship Trump.
Think the city brought suit against woman not Trump.
Yes, basically what he said. Trump - just another Wall Street insider.