ThinkProgress reports that Trump sat down with an estimated 50 Black pastors, including The Apprentice star-turned-minister Omarosa Manigault, yesterday afternoon in a meeting that he described as “amazing”.
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Due to the interest in the debate, Trump said, at the time, Zucker should donate all the profits that CNN was receiving from increased advertising rates to veterans groups.
Trump’s campaign on Monday canceled a press conference with 100 spiritual leaders from the African-American community.
If the super PACs of Bush and Kasich keep running those negative and disgusting ads regarding Trump, then he will decide to run as a third party candidate, which would surely give Clinton the election. They met with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, with the building’s namesake uncharacteristically waiting patiently for his turn to speak.
Monday, after the meeting, Trump mentioned African-American unemployment as one of the issues addressed during the meeting and ended the conference emphasizing that he has made no financial commitments to any of the churches the pastors represented. He even said that the questions asked by the pastors were answered by Trump.
“I don’t think it happened”. He came to the meeting to call Trump on the racial slurs and so forth, and also the Black Lives Matter protester recently getting tossed from a Trump event.
Pastor Scott said people in the meeting said they would pray a lot before they make an endorsement.
Reverend Jamal Bryant, who did not attend the meeting, and Pastor James Davis who did, went toe to toe on CNN Monday. And Durham, N.C., Bishop George G. Bloomer appeared to have endorsed Trump at an October rally, though he denied having given an endorsement Monday.
Darrell Scott, a Black pastor who organized the meeting, said a formal endorsement was forthcoming, writes the news outlet. “I don’t know it it’s an endorsement, I don’t know if it’s an endorsement by some”.
But the scariest thing is… we can totally see CNN meeting his demands within the next two weeks. The meeting was widely condemned after Trump retweeted a graphic with erroneous figures about Blacks and murder. The decline in popularity is the biggest since Trump leapt to the top of the crowded GOP field in July.
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Challenged over his description of the group in a New York Daily News interview as “prostitutes”, he returned to the charge, saying: “I want to apologize because prostitutes get money and the 100 that went in there walked away with nothing”.
