Black pastors mixed on Trump endorsement

Donald Trump speaks during a town hall meeting during a campaign stop at Des Moines Area Community College Newton Campus on November 19, 2015, in Newton, Iowa.

Bishop Clarence McClendon, a pastor well-known for his role in the reality show The Preachers of LA, said he would not decide who to endorse until next year.

Dozens of African American pastors gathered behind closed doors with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump at his office in New York City on Monday.

“I saw love in that room”. The Trump campaign originally told press the pastors were going to endorse him, despite the fact that they had never promised to do so, which organizers chalked up to a “miscommunication”.

Separately, more than 100 black religious leaders who were not invited published an open letter in Ebony magazine blasting Trump for his rhetoric and warning their fellow religious leaders that the meeting would give Trump the “appearance of legitimacy” among their followers.

“This meeting was unbelievable”.

And, in an attempt to add more fuel to the fire, after Trump called Kovaleski a “nice reporter”, he then, allegedly, went into an impression of him, seemingly mocking his disability.

The change of plans comes after a week of setbacks for the billionaire real estate mogul.

The campaign later re-branded the event as “a private, informational meet-and-greet with many members of the Coalition of African American Ministers”. Mr. Trump’s attempt in and of itself is honorable.

Donald Trump has been forced into a humiliating climbdown, cancelling a major campaign event after black church leaders complained that a private meeting was being billed as a public endorsement of the leading Republican presidential candidate.

Trump has spent a lot of time in recent months campaigning in Southern states like Alabama and SC that have large black populations. “Most recently, he admitted his supporters were justified for punching and kicking a black protester who had attended a Trump rally with the intent to remind the crowd that ‘Black Lives Matter'”.

“Some of these pastors have never even met Trump yet”, Scott said.

“I said, ‘well, I would possibly be interested, but I need to hear more”. White lives are very important.

“I have a very good memory, Chuck”.

Not everyone attending Monday’s meeting was supportive of Trump.

It’s this: CBS asked Trump supporters-that is, notall Republicans in the survey, just the people supporting Trump-what their favorite thing about Trump is.

“I was told it was an endorsement”, Trump said Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

When his remarks were revisited on NBC, Trump said: “All over the world – forget about New Jersey for a second – all over the world, it was reported that Muslims were celebrating the fall of the World Trade Center”. No, really. Guess. I’ll wait.

“You want stories, you want controversy”.

“It did happen in New Jersey”, Mr Trump said. “Which Black lives do you claim to be liberating”, the leaders wrote. When news of the “endorsement” meeting circulated, it prompted expressions of outrage from a host of other prominent African Americans.

“I think that Mr. Trump is not even aware, not even relevant, to the African-American community”, Vaughn said.

Trump “said we had no interest in being involved in Syria”.