Trump tried to deliver an address from prepared remarks, where he said he was the person to fix Flint’s water crisis and economic troubles.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a previously unannounced trip to Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday where he took a very brief tour of a water treatment plant and was later chastised by a local pastor for bringing politics into her pulpit.
Trump responded by saying “Oh, oh, OK, that’s good” and shuffling papers on his podium at Bethel United Methodist Church. Then Rev. Faith Green Timmons walked up to the lectern and interrupted Trump, telling him that wasn’t what he was there to speak about.
“Trump didn’t go into detail on specific policies he would pursue to improve Flint’s water quality. She called NBC, ABC. when she got up to introduce me, she was so nervous, she was shaking”, Trump told Fox News. He said. “She was like a nervous mess” and that “she had that in mind, there’s no question about it”. “That’s good. I’m going to go back onto Flint”. In 1973, the Justice Department sued Trump Management, in which Trump’s father served as chairman and Trump was its president.
“Does it bother you?” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Trump.
Timmons could not be immediately reached for comment Thursday morning. Carrie Younger Nelson, a volunteer with the DDL, said Trump’s visit was nothing more than a “photo op”.
Trump said he believed he may not be received well at the church.
“I used the expression, ‘What do you have to lose?”
The Republican billionaire, renown for saying what he likes, was told off by Reverend Faith Green Timmons after he launched into his latest political attack on rival Hillary Clinton. “When he went beyond that it was not easy to do by I felt it had to be done”. “She was like a nervous mess, and so I figured something – I figured something was up, really”.
According to Steve Doocy on “Fox and Friends”, there is some evidence that this could have been a set-up from the start.
“It’s been awful. We have to live on bottled water for everything – to make food, to feed our pets, to drink, to bathe in”.
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One woman heckling Trump Wednesday interrupted him to raise allegations that he “discriminated against black tenants”, an apparent reference to the Justice Department’s 1973 civil rights lawsuit against Trump and his father’s landlord practices in New York City. CNN has not been able to review the Facebook post in question.
