Donald Trump Cancels Press Conference With 100 Black Pastors

The Daily Mail reported this morning that Donald Trump believes Black Lives Matter may have had a hand in a group of African-American pastors pulling their supposed endorsement of him for the US presidency.

The Rev. Jamal H. Bryant, pastor of Northwest Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple church, turned down an invitation to meet with Trump and took to social media to speak out against the meeting.

In the exchange, Trump told Todd, “I have a very good memory, Chuck”.

It continued: “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”. “This is… a private meeting, after which a number of attendees are expected to endorse Mr. Trump’s campaign for President”, the email read.

In an interview on MSNBC, Trump said that the meeting was actually initiated by the group of black pastors. “I have fantastic relationships with the people, but I think pressure was put on them when they heard there was a meeting by people who disagree”.

Trump told “Meet the Press” that “we’re looking for other articles and we’re looking for other clips and I wouldn’t be surprised if we found them”, he said.

It was a jam-packed room, standing support for Mr. Trump. He also said that many people had been tweeting about the celebrations at the time.

Trump’s campaign canceled a news conference slated for after the meeting.

Then Trump proceeds to mock Kovaleski who, according to The Associated Press, has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that restricts joint movement.

Scott said more than 100 preachers from across the country attended the meeting, despite criticism in an open letter in Ebony magazine from more than 100 black religious leaders.

In recent weeks, Trump has praised his supporters for physically assaulting an African-American protester, and shared crime statistics prepared by neo-Nazis, which drastically exaggerated the rate at which African-Americans murder whites.

Trump’s comments came after Christie said that no Muslims in New Jersey were celebrating after 9/11 as Trump had claimed.

CNN reports that several black pastors invited to the event backed out when it was originally scheduled for Sunday.

Trump also said he supported the idea of requiring all Muslims living in the United States to register in a special database as a counter-terrorism measure. And many people saw it in person, I’ve had hundreds of phone calls to the Trump Organization saying we saw it, dancing in the streets…