Trump Cancels Press Conference With Black Pastors Who Won’t Endorse Him
“Mr. Trump will be joined by a coalition of 100 African American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the GOP frontrunner after a private meeting at Trump Tower”, Trump’s campaign said in a statement late last week.
Mr. Trump, if I say people have said Trump’s not worth ten billion dollars and people were saying- You wouldn’t make a business deal based on retweets and hearsay.
But Trump was endorsed by some members of the group, including the Rev. Darrell Scott of the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Pastor Steve Parson, a Richmond-area minister in Virginia.
He says Trump’s campaign thought the press conference scheduled Monday in NY was for an endorsement when it wasn’t. But Trump has said he doesn’t remember meeting Kovaleski. You’re running for president of the united states, your words matter.
Trump kicked off his campaign with a speech in which he said some Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, and recently drew criticism for retweeting an image of inaccurate statistics that vastly overrepresented the number of whites killed by blacks, among other errors. They’re fed up. They don’t think the government is working for them.
Within days of 9/11, police, fact-checkers and U.S. media debunked the rumors that people were cheering from rooftops of Jersey City, across the river from Manhattan.
While there was no wide-ranging endorsement from the group as a whole, some of those who attended expressed their full-throated support for Trump.
Still, Christie said he’d vote for Trump over Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in a general election.
For Vaughn, she admitted that her name being included on the list of pastors meeting with Trump resulted in her inbox “blowing up with inquiries” once the endorsement release surfaced.
Trump has ignited a number of racial controversies on the campaign trail, such as when he suggested a Black Lives Matter heckler “should have been roughed up”.
Morton told CNN’s Carol Costello Monday that even if his fellow pastors refused to endorse Trump, they should be careful about being perceived as endorsing him merely by showing up. Many I know-wonderful people!
“It did happen in New Jersey“, Trump said.
It could also be possible that the clergy who were praying for Mr. Trump and admonishing his humility and boldness are full of sh*t and just want access to a celebrity in order to raise their profile.
However, The Donald said that over the weekend while at his event in Sarasota, Florida, “people were saying” they also saw Muslims cheering the deadly terrorists attacks when they were in New Jersey at the time.
It might be more a question of lines of communication getting tangled, which is not unusual in a campaign gearing up from operating in a few states to going national.