Donald Trump Claims Muslims Celebrated 9/11 Attacks

A coalition of 100 black pastors are set to meet with Donald Trump Monday.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump upheld that he was “100 percent right” in his claim that thousands of Muslims in Jersey City celebrated during the 9/11 attacks on the world Trade Center.

“I think this issue exists on its own island”, said Steve Schmidt, a Republican political consultant who ran Sen.

Then, on Saturday, a number of the African-American clergy scheduled to meet with Trump told the media that they didn’t plan to endorse Trump at all. “People are saying that about you, ‘” Bloomer said. Trump’s campaign “thought it was going to be a press conference for an endorsement when it wasn’t”, Scott said Sunday in an interview.

Burns said the religious leaders will challenge Trump at the meeting.

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”.

Steve Parson, a black pastor from Richmond, Virginia, said prior to the meeting that he was there in “total support” of Trump. “Mr. Trump routinely uses overtly divisive and racist language on the campaign trail”, they wrote. “The rest are praying about it”.

But the same reason the senator insisted on anonymity explains why, just two months before the Iowa caucuses, there has been no such ad campaign: To step up in that way would be to invite the wrath of Mr. Trump, who relishes belittling his critics.

Mr. Trump said in a tweet Sunday that the press conference was cancelled.

“Will be meeting on Monday at Trump Tower with a large group of African-American pastors”. “Fourteen, 15 years ago, they don’t even put it in files, they destroy half of the stuff. I see love everywhere I go”, Trump said afterward, noting that the meeting lasted 2.5 hours.

“I am not officially endorsing ANY candidate and when I do you will NOT need to hear it from pulpitting courtjesters who suffer from intellectual and spiritual myopia”, he posted on Facebook.

“I let them know I am endorsing but that doesn’t mean you are endorsing”. The event was supposed to show Trump’s extensive reach in the evangelical community but instead resulted in spotlighting the deep division that exists among the religious faithful over Trump’s candidacy.

When Trump announced his campaign, he said Mexican immigrants are “bringing crime”.

In an op-ed in EBONY magazine published Friday, pastors, seminary professors and Christian activists critical of Trump asked the group backing the candidate to consider the impact that endorsing him could have on their congregations. “Black lives are very important”. “But if he keeps going and he actually becomes president he may get around to you and you better hope that there’s someone left to help you”, Moe said, paraphrasing the anti-Nazi words of German pastor Martin Niemoller.