In his interview with Bishop Jackson, Mr Trump answered a set of pre-approved questions with replies prepared by his campaign staff and the Republican National Committee, the New York Times reported. The objective of Trump’s visit was “to listen” and “to learn” from the Afro-American people who live in Detroit.
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“This has been an incredible day for me”, Trump said after taking the stage. A group of protesters gathered outside the church to express their objections.
“Our nation is too divided”, Mr Trump said at Great Faith Ministries International Church, reading from a script to a congregation that half filled the sanctuary but greeted him with polite applause. In his speech, he laid out plans that will focus on issues that will benefit the African-American community such as economic change and school choice.
“I believe we need a civil rights agenda for our time”, said Trump, before he concluded by citing 1 John 4:12. “I want to make America prosperous for everyone”.
The pastor said he fasted and prayed over the prayer shawl.
Rabbi Ron Kronish, a senior advisor for the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel, told Haaretz that the presentation distorted the meaning of the prayer shawl, adding that the object has no miraculous significance in Judaism. Whenever you’re flying from coast to coast – I know you just came back from Mexico and you’ll be flying from city to city – there is an anointing.
“I would hope that Mr. Trump would not misappropriate this ritual object for his travels, but with this megalomania nearly anything is possible”, Kronish remarked. “This is an anointing and the anointing is the power of God”. “It’s going to be sometimes in your life that you’re going to feel forsaken, you’re going to feel down, but the anointing is going to lift you up”.
The GOP presidential candidate appeared at Great Faith Ministries with former “Apprentice” contestant Omarosa Manigualt and former Republican presidential candidate Dr. Carson told CNN’s Jeremy Diamond he wanted Trump to see areas in the city that are now blighted but were prosperous when Carson was a boy.
Security kept him and other members of the public about 100 yards away from the front door of the church that Trump entered.
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Several surveys show that, while history and past records call for supporting Mrs. Clinton, most of the young blacks do not trust her and considers her to be an expert at lying.
