“As you might recall, Bull Conner was determined to kill or lock up every black that spoke against his racist concept of America”.
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In the end, Davis wasn’t willing to let the “prostitute” debate go either, saying that he believes that Bryant should lose his pastoral credentials. He’s cited news reports, but both the Washington Post and the story’s reporter have said his interpretation of the facts is incorrect. After they objected, the Trump campaign made a decision to keep the meeting private and quietly canceled a press conference afterward meant to announce their support.
“Meeting with African-American Pastors at Trump Tower was fantastic”, he tweeted about 3 p.m. Monday after the meeting. Trump also interrupted his own 75-minute speech to bring another black Georgia Republican to the microphone.
“I felt like we came out of the meeting knowing that Donald Trump is committed to Christian values”, said Manigualt, a Democrat who worked for the Clinton White House.
“This meeting was awesome”.
The former Mayor said that if thousands had been celebrating, as Trump claimed, he would have known about it, adding that Trump was simply “exaggerating”.
“It went longer only because of the love”.
“Everybody in that room likes Donald Trump”, said Scott, who stood next to the Republican presidential front-runner and real estate mogul at an impromptu press conference afterward.
“The attractive thing about the meeting is that they didn’t really ask me to change the tone”, Trump said.
“While I refuse to brag, and you know very well, this tremendous increase in viewer interest is due 100% to Donald J. Trump”, the letter read.
The group reportedly addressed various issues that are of concern to African Americans including the high unemployment rate in the Black community and police brutality.
Monday’s meeting was at the source of much controversy – and confusion.
Undiluted affection came Trump’s way via an endorsement by Rev. James David Manning, known to many New Yorkers as “The Harlem Hate Pastor”.
In the lead up to the event, several black ministers took to cable TV and black talk radio to denounce Trump, the event and many of his remarks on race.
When Martin asked Parson how Trump plans to give tax breaks to the poor, Parson said: “If you have, a certain level of extra amount of income then you will have less taxes”, Parson said.
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