This is a Google search of the title of this thread:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dona...eminent+domain
Donald Trump is Land Developer (or, mainly redeveloper).
I was a building contractor for 13 years and dealt with more than a handful of land developers, know their tricks, and have had to threaten to lien or lien a few of their developments for unpaid contracted work.
In one case I liened the titles to all 650 building lots -- I got my money in 5 days after getting excuses for weeks of a contractual job completion debt owed ... Look it up (how it works) ... I could have forced the foreclosure of the whole development over a lousy low 5 figures.
Point being, Donald Trump only respects his property development rights and will fight to expand Eminent Domain and Property Condemnation use in urban redevelopment -- that's fine unless your property is in the way of new profits by developers and new taxes to state taxation entities (municipalities, school districts, counties and states [as well as all the others on your property tax bill]).
Even if you are a Tenant, someone owns the property you rent -- you could be forced to move and possibly uncompensated (without liquidated leasehold damages) for the property you rent ( a leasehold ) being taken by eminent domain.
Donald Trump's eminent domain love nearly cost a widow her house | David Boaz | Comment is free | The Guardian
Never though I would be quoting an editorial by a member of the Cato Institute (Ultra conservative and Libertarian think tank) but sometimes some issues intersect. If you take time to read the article it's intresting how the US Supreme Court ruling on Eminient Domain went down, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, generally rather ''liberal'':
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[P]olls showed that more than 80% of the public opposed the decision. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor issued a scathing dissent: “Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms … The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.” ...
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Chumps for Trump 2016 :P