Donald Trump Cancels Event With Black Pastors after Other Clergy Raise Concerns

But the pastors and religious activists continued to be criticized on social media for associating with Trump, who has made disparaging remarks about Latino immigrants, remained open to the idea of creating a database of Muslims living in the United States and seemed to condone the roughing-up of an African-American protester at a recent campaign rally. The notion infuriated her. “What America has become in terms of being racially divided, having gender division. And everybody in that room likes Donald Trump”.

Darrell Scott, a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, pastor who organized and moderated the talk, said he will endorse Trump and his counterparts planned to pray on whether to lend support.

Pressure to endorse Trump hovered over the meeting, according to attendees, who said that cards pledging support were handed out for them to sign while Trump was in the room.

Real-estate magnate Donald Trump ended up holding a Monday press conference with black pastors after all.

Reid said said political leaders have to “think very hard” about what they say going forward. “I certainly can’t imagine that he has the poor black men or the 1.5 million black men who are in prison for misdemeanors”.

Other voters told Geary they have not made up their minds and want to hear Trump’s message, especially when it comes to the economy.

Scott’s comment was insulting to all African-Americans, who have legitimate concerns about Donald Trump.

“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing”, Trump said on Fox News Sunday.

Trump floated being paid to participate in the last CNN Republican debate in September, when he wrote in a letter to CNN president Jeff Zucker: “While I refuse to brag, and you know very well, this tremendous increase in viewer interest is due 100% to ‘Donald J. Trump”.

But the event was scaled back to a private meeting closed to the press after The Post reported that several invitees had no intention of backing the GOP presidential frontrunner.

She added that she was invited to the meeting but will not be attending.

I don’t want to discuss that.

Vaughn is not alone in her experience.

Trump predicted the television pundits will call him “chicken” if he carries out his threat, but he attached little value to the opinions of the “talking heads, who are not smart people at all”.

Trump’s unexpected rise to the top of Republican field and his staying power in the lead have proved that he is surprisingly invulnerable to accusations of racism and insensitivity to minority groups, among other offensive statements.

Black Lives Matter didn’t officially oppose the meeting, which occurred Monday afternoon, but a group of 114 black intellectuals and clergy members, writing in Ebony, did. They accused Mr. Trump of being an insulting individual but they’ve levied insults at us that I wouldn’t levy against people I hate…