Last Wednesday, Trump’s campaign announced to reporters that it would be holding a Monday-afternoon “press conference”, and that he would be “joined by a coalition of 100 African American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the GOP front-runner after a private meeting”. “Not a press event”, he tweeted to his more than five million followers.
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“One thing I’ve learned about the press is that they’re always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better”.
Within days of 9/11, police, fact-checkers and U.S. media debunked the rumors that people were cheering from rooftops of Jersey City, across the river from Manhattan.
The former Florida governor blasted Trump, saying he doubts the real estate mogul’s readiness for the White House, in an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday.
TRUMP: I also heard [it happened in] Patterson.
A 2008 Gallup poll found that 7 per cent of Muslims around the world said the 9/11 attacks were completely justified and viewed the United States unfavorably. “Those who invited me never invited me to endorse Mr. Trump, but to be a voice and to stand for what’s right in our community”. “I’m not going to get into all that stuff … the American people should decide what this should be”.
A much anticipated meeting between Donald Trump and about 100 black pastors and religious leaders was abruptly canceled when it became apparent that majority would not endorse the candidate.
In 2011 Donald Trump infamously said, “I have a great relationship with the blacks”.
“We’re deeply disturbed by the lack of empathy that he seems to show”, one participant who was invited by Scott said before the meeting.
The Trump camp blamed the kerfuffle on Black Lives Matter, the social movement that sprang up in response to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.
On Monday, Christie explained that he was not trying to “hedge” anything when he said he didn’t recall specifics. “Some committed”, a Trump aide told reporters. Nobody can find evidence of this, but the article you tweeted out that said you backed it up, that in itself there were three or four different reports that month in New Jersey that said that it was a myth, a false rumor, FBI, you name it! All of them were Trump supporters and ready to endorse.
“The meeting was presented not as a meeting to endorse but a meeting to engage in dialogue”, he said Friday on Facebook.
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“Nothing seems to matter”, conservative commentator Brit Hume said on Fox News Sunday, and then quoted Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool some people all the time”. In an earlier post, she called Trump “an insult and embarrassment”.
