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Black pastor scolds Trump for politicizing speech in Flint

“And some of the statements I’ve heard him say about African-Americans and Hispanics have been degrading”, Timmons added. “She was shaking! And I said, ‘Wow, this is sort of unusual, ‘ and then she came up”. Then she came up. After taking several days off from directly attacking Clinton’s health following her diagnosis of pneumonia over the weekend, Trump appeared to raise questions about her health at a rally Wednesday night in Ohio.

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Trump spoke for a bit longer and seemed to abruptly end his speech as a man in the crowd began to heckle him. She was like a nervous mess.

Trump on Wednesday was touring the city “plagued by lead-contaminated drinking water since Gov. Rick Snyder switched the city’s water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River in 2014 as a cost-cutting measure”, as The Hill put it.

Following Trump’s criticism of Hillary Clinton, a pastor, Faith Green Timmons, got to the stage to tell Trump that he was not invited to the church to talk politics.

In an interview with Fox News Thursday, Trump said Timmons was shaking when she shut down his blistering attack on Clinton.

Federal, state and local officials-continuing to work together are going to help restore Flint and help the people of Flint recover.

One black woman, Reneta Richard, yelled at him “What do you mean, ‘African-Americans have nothing to lose?'” repeating back to Trump his recent call for African-Americans to turn their back on Democrats and vote for him. So Trump said the people loved him and suggested that they were eager for change that he could deliver.

“Thank you. Thank you, Pastor”, Trump responded.

Donald Trump weighs 236 pounds, stands 6-foot-3, has normal cholesterol and blood pressure levels, and is healthy enough to serve as president, his campaign said in a one-page summary on a recent physical.

“The whole place is – not only the water, the water is what – what they did with the water is terrible, but the crime rate and all the other problems they have and people want to see – you know when I use the expression, I say what do you have to lose?” “And now, the cars are made in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint”.

Weaver said she would be in Washington on Wednesday to lobby for federal aid.

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An NPR reporter at the event said there was no such response from the crowd – in fact, reporter Scott Detrow wrote, audience members asked “pointed questions about whether he racially discriminated against black tenants as a landlord”.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tours the Flint water plant