Trump mulls debate boycott unless CNN donates $5M

It may cost CNN $5 million to bring Donald Trump on stage at the December 15 Republican debate.

In the letter, the group wrote 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“.

An upbeat Donald Trump swept out of a closed-door meeting with African-American ministers Monday, claiming he had secured endorsements from the group and appearing confident that he would win the GOP nomination.

“Our community really wants him to be sensitive with the way he handles people and they feel he’s insensitive”, he said. More specifically, they’ve pointed to a 2013 blog post by conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel, in which she recalled watching an MTV report about the “thousands” of Muslim Americans cheering the attacks. “Maybe that’s what I said, ‘” Trump said while flailing his arms. But pressed three times by ABC moderator Martha Raddatz, Kasich refused to definitively say if he would back Trump as the nominee, saying Trump is “not going to” be the nominee. Despite rumors, Thomas said the pastors asked for a private meeting with Trump.

The meeting became a flashpoint after Trump’s campaign announced on November 25 that “a coalition of 100 African American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders” would endorse him after the Monday meeting.

Chris Christie, a presidential candidate, and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, a Democrat, say Trump’s claim is wrong. You, reading this right now, are part of the problem, and so am I. Whatever else he is, the puffy-faced former TV show host is the hottest thing on the internet since a cat first adorably mashed a keyboard, and he knows it. “And the 100 that went in there walked away with nothing, they did it for free”, he said. Recently, Trump gained the endorsement of a black pastor who is challenging the media’s apparent claims that minorities are automatically anti-Trump.

“If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country”, Trump said.

But some of Trump’s loudest ovations – from a crowd that included at least a few supporters wearing Confederate regalia – came as he touted the same positions that prompted concern from some of the pastors he’d met with hours before.