The crowd heckled the Republican presidential nominee and then a pastor gloriously interrupted him mid-speech, chastising him for talking politics instead of discussing the city’s water crisis.
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Donald Trump headed to Flint, Michigan Wednesday for a campaign stop at the city’s Bethel United Methodist Church.
Despite the criticism of Timmons however, Trump said he wasn’t bothered by her actions.
“Something was up”, Trump told “Fox and Friends” on Thursday morning. “And she called NBC, ABC …”
“I thought he wanted to see that we gave out food and water, and when his statement went beyond what he originally said, I asked him to stick to what he was originally going to say”, Timmons explained to CNN later.
In an interview with Fox News Thursday, Trump said Timmons was shaking when she shut down his blistering attack on Clinton. “She didn’t appear nervous at all”, he wrote in a piece this morning summarizing the incident.
As reported yesterday, Pastor Faith Green Timmons of Bethel United Methodist Church had invited the GOP presidential nominee to speak as part of the church’s policy of welcoming “all people”.
Trump said, though, that “everyone plays their games, it doesn’t bother me”.
“Thank you. Thank you, pastor”, Trump responded. “But she was so nervous, she was like a nervous mess, so I figured something was up”.
We all remember when President Obama visited “Little Miss Flint”, aka Amariyanna Copney and collectively made our hearts crumble into a million little pieces – well, Miss Copney got to meet with “another toxic orange-ish mess” today and.well, you see the picture. “Now I want to hear what [Trump] has to say”. Trump, predictably, went after Hillary Clinton in his brief speech, right up until the Rev. Faith Green Timmons, the church’s pastor interrupted him. “And I said, ‘Wow this is sort of unusual.’ And then she came up”.
Earlier in the day, he toured Flint’s water-treatment plant, which has been shut down since lead was found in the water supply.
An overwhelming 94 percent of black voters view the G.O.P. standard-bearer unfavorably, according to one Washington Post survey Trump’s visit to Flint, a town with a large African-American population suffering from widespread lead poisoning, was intended as a show of minority outreach.
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“We will get it fixed and it will be fixed and effectively and Flint will come back”.
