“Flint’s pain is a result of so many different failures”, Trump said, and charged that the city’s crisis “is the result of so many different failures” and promised that under a Trump presidency, the damage would be fixed soon.
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Timmons issued a statement later.
After suffering a public humiliation at the hands of a black woman, Donald Trump chose to start his Thursday by attacking a Christian pastor on Fox News.
Donald Trump headed to Flint, Michigan Wednesday for a campaign stop at the city’s Bethel United Methodist Church.
In the Thursday morning interview, Mr Trump elaborated on the plight of Flint, echoing similar statements made in his apparent outreach to black voters.
Trump, who had previously said barely a word about the crisis in Flint, used the town as a photo-op without addressing the reality of what the townspeople are facing. “She was a nervous mess, and so I figured something-I figured something was up, really”. Unsurprisingly, it generated quite a lot of attention, but not the kind he probably hoped for – especially after he veered his speech towards politics and Mexico.
Trump thought that the interruption by Timmons was probably pre-planned and said “she had that in mind, there’s no question about it”.
When playing back our tape, FOX 2 Detroit could not identify the part at which the audience said, ‘Let him speak.
The loud-mouthed billionaire then moved onto economy and China, before turning to attack his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Just like she’s failed on foreign policy.
Attacking a religious leader who also happens to be a black woman – representing two demographics with whom Trump could be doing a better job of reaching – is not likely to garner him many sympathies among the electorate.
According to politico.com, Trump preceded the church visit with a 15-minute tour of the water treatment centre that is responsible for the contamination.
Welp, Donald Trump again visited a black church and, once again, had an awkward encounter.
At the plant he expressed his gratitude – as the New York Times so aptly put it – to the “managers in the same town that had its water poisoned”, telling them that “it’s not an easy situation, but you’ll get it under control”. “They’ll make their cars, they’ll employ thousands and thousands of people not from this country and they’ll sell the cars through a very weak border – no tax, no nothing”.
“First of all, it would have never happened [under a Trump administration], because it was so ridiculous”, Trump told NBC25-FOX66 news anchor Dave Bondy after touring the facility that has not been operational since last fall.
“I mean, everyone plays their games”.
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“Well it’s a shame what’s happening in Flint, Michigan”.
