Black Pastors Say They Won’t Endorse Donald Trump for President at Monday’s

Many of those invited to the event say they had no intention of endorsing the billionaire businessman.

Pastor Darrell Scott, who said he is endorsing Trump for president, told the Daily Beast on Friday that he set up the press conference only as a meeting between Trump and the black community.

A press conference scheduled for Monday, where GOP front runner Donald Trump had expected to announce the support of black clergyman, has been cancelled after the pastors blasted the campaign for announcing they would be endorsing him, reports CNN.

The campaign later re-branded the event as “a private, informational meet-and-greet with many members of the Coalition of African American Ministers”. Many I know – wonderful people!

But on Sunday, the 2016 White House hopeful took to Twitter in customary bombastic style to confirm that the press event was off, even if the meeting – albeit with an unspecified number of pastors – was on.

Scott expressed remorse over the episode, which has created a little bit of a headache for the Trump campaign.

Donald Trump had the Internet up in arms yet again this past week when it was announced that the Republican presidential candidate would meet with a group of black pastors.

ClutchMagOnline.com earlier posted an advertisement for the meeting with a list of the black pastors that will be participating. She said that her Facebook inbox was “blowing up with inquiries”.

“The meeting was presented not as a meeting to endorse but a meeting to engage in dialogue”, he said Friday on Facebook.

Bishop Clarence McClendon from Los Angeles was another who said he had been invited – but did not plan to attend. Anything less than 100 and Donald Trump is just guilty of doing some Republican math. They all do it, and we expect it at this point, just as we expect the media to be blamed every time a Republican candidate lies, because, you know, the media recorded the conversation or filmed the candidate telling his or her lies and then, you know, quoted the candidate. “ZERO experience … flaunting a ticket of unbridled bigotry, sexism, racism and everything that is wrong with America”, said Vaughn. They added that, “Trump’s racially inaccurate, insensitive and incendiary rhetoric should give those charged with the care of the spirits and souls of Black people great pause”.

Trump said the meeting will not be open to the press. Scott also said that Trump has never offered him money, as many have suggested, nor would he accept it.