Yahoo News: Will Trump’s use of eminent domain come back to haunt him? - Each day MSM goes scandal shopping. Yesterday: doesn't sleep in cheap motels on campaign trail. Today: eminent domain. Guess I'd side with the widow, but whom do you hire to close USA's borders, tough business mogul or a widow and her cat? --tma

The Vera Coking house dwarfed by Trump Plaza on Columbia Place in Atlantic City. The house was the focus of a high-profile eminent domain case involving Donald Trump. (Photo: Helayne Seidman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

In 1997, Donald Trump’s plan to expand his Atlantic City casino was frustrated by one woman: Vera Coking. And nearly 20 years later, opponents of the GOP frontrunner are hopeful that the memory of that episode can trip up the mogul once again.

Coking, an outspoken, tough New Jersey widow who wore oversized rhinestone-studded glasses and eccentric outfits, owned a three-story house on the boardwalk that was in the way of Trump’s plans to expand the Trump Plaza casino. And she didn’t want to sell it to him, despite his ever-increasing offers. ...

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