Trump cancels event with black pastors
Pulpiteers have an immeasurable influence over their parishioners and their support for Mr. Trump could be disastrous, as it would result, more than likely, in congregants en masse following suit, forcing the mainstream media-not that they need any motivation-to continue to cover Mr. Trump at the expense of more qualified and dignified candidates.
Trump’s campaign had originally promoted today’s meeting, which reportedly involves almost 100 African-American pastors, as an endorsement, sending out a news release Wednesday using that language.
“I saw love in that room”.
“This meeting was unbelievable”.
Pennsylvania GOP Chairman Rob Gleason says Trump is doing well in polling and that the party’s donors would like to hear from him at the $1,000-a-head Commonwealth Club luncheon December 11. “It didn’t go longer for other reasons”. “The pattern is he says something insulting, offensive, outrageous”, Fiorina told Fox News Sunday. Monday’s meeting was originally promoted by his campaign as an endorsement event, in which he would receive the backing of 100 black evangelical and religious leaders. “We made a lot of progress”.
He has held several meetings with pastors from across the country in recent months. “I think they’re trouble”. On Nov. 21, a Black Lives Matter activist was physically assaulted at a Trump rally.
Journalists have rightly challenged the real estate mogul’s claims, that thus far, have proved dubious.
Bishop Clarence McClendon from Los Angeles was another who said he had been invited – but did not plan to attend. “Which Black lives do you claim to be liberating”, the leaders wrote. White lives are very important.
Not everyone attending Monday’s meeting was supportive of Trump.
Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump was forced into a humiliating climbdown when he had to cancel a public event yesterday where he had planned to announce endorsements from black pastors.
Bush also criticized Trump’s approach to Syria, saying he has shifted positions repeatedly.
“We actually didn’t think we were going to be having a press conference, but we all thought it was such a good meeting that we would do that”, Trump said.
But plenty of attendees showed enthusiastic support for Trump, saying Trump has been villainized by his critics and some in the media.
“You want stories, you want controversy”.
“I have no idea what the meeting is; I have a great relationship with the black pastors, I know many of them, and we’ll see what happens”, Trump said.
But are Trump supporters being misled by bogus claims?
Despite organizing the gathering between Trump and the black ministers, Scott told the Daily Beast that the invite was for them to meet Trump, not endorse him.
“The only thing that disqualifies anyone from being president is not getting enough votes or not being a us citizen or 35, other than that, nothing disqualifies you”, Christie said.
Scott, the organizer of Monday’s meeting, responded by saying African-Americans engaged in name-calling should be “ashamed”.