Donald Trump gets booed in heated exchange with Jeb Bush over eminent domain

Jeb Bush and Donald Trump got into a heated argument about eminent domain at Saturday's Republican presidential debate in Manchester, New Hampshire. Bush started it by calling Trump out on the difference between the government taking private property for "public purpose" and for "private purpose." "What Donald Trump did was try to take the property of an elderly woman in Atlantic City to turn it into a limousine parking lot for his casino," Bush said.
Trump then tried to shush Bush, eliciting boos from the audience. "That's all of his donors and special interests out there," Trump said of the boos.
In Trump's opinion, eminent domain is an "absolute necessity for a country." "Without it, you wouldn't have roads...you wouldn't have bridges," Trump says. "The Keystone Pipeline without eminent domain, it wouldn't go 10 feet," he added.
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