Tag: Eminent Domain

Foxconn Selling Two Empty Wisconsin Buildings After Failed Promises to Bring Jobs to the State

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The manufacturing project became infamous when former President Trump broke ground at the site and red flags became immediately apparent.

Foxconn Selling Two Empty Wisconsin Buildings After Failed Promises to Bring Jobs to the State

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Trump promised this Wisconsin town a manufacturing boom. It never arrived.

Roughly 100 homeowners and farmers were forced to move, sometimes under threat of eminent domain, so their properties could be bulldozed to make way for the campus, according to residents and village officials. The village paid more than 40 percent over market value for that land, officials noted.

President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day.

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‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day.

When aides have suggested that some of his orders are illegal or unworkable, Trump has suggested he would pardon the officials if they would just go ahead, aides said. He has waved off worries about contracting procedures and the use of eminent domain, saying “take the land,” according to officials present at the meetings.