His team was leaving nothing to chance.
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Donald Trump will visit a predominantly black church in Detroit this weekend and, his campaign says, “outline policies that will impact minorities and the disenfranchised in our country”.
I’m guessing Trump doesn’t want to have to answer tough questions from “the blacks” he claims he’s such a great friend of.
The only official campaign communication on this does contain the basics: 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 3 at Great Faith Ministries International in Detroit. This comes after Trump asked black voters “what do you have to lose?” in voting for him.
It is not uncommon for a candidate to request interview questions in advance; aides to Hillary Clinton do it from time to time.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Xfinity Arena at Everett, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, in Everett, Wash.
“Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community”, DNC interim chairwoman Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”.
But when Trump returns this time to the Motor City, he will be hosted by none other than Bishop Wayne T. Jackson’s Impact Network, recognized as one of the most popular and powerful Christian broadcasting networks in the nation as well as one of the nation’s most successful black businesses.
It’s nearly as if Trump is only pretending to court black voters to pacify Republicans who are still somewhat concerned with their party’s reputation.
One knock against Trump is that the crowds at his massive campaign rallies are normally almost all white, with the exception of frequent protestors who have at times been treated violently by Trump’s supporters.
Her use of a private server to exchange classified emails also made the headlines again last week, after a judge ordered her to provide written testimony under oath about why she used the server.
“The proof, as they say, will be in the pudding”, Mr Trump is advised to say. “He is genuine and authentic, but not unprepared”.
Trump is well known for veering from prepared remarks or throwing them away entirely.
Other answers in the transcript that don’t have the ring of Trump’s bold pronouncements. “Coming into a community is meaningless unless we can offer an alternative to the frightful progressive agenda that has perpetuated a permanent underclass in America”.
“I’m going to ask him that question: Are you a racist?” The script mostly doesn’t sound like Trump on a verbal level-I will eat my Bible hat if he actually says anything remotely like “I have a strong faith enriched by an ever-wonderful God”-and, in its ideology, it reads more like the work of a free-market economic think tank than the populist Trump campaign”.
There has been pushback from the community regarding the visit, Jackson said.
Jackson, who is a registered Democrat who has voted Republican before, said it is the criticism that he finds offensive. I thought it would happen when Obama took office. “We don’t want him to be president”. “So many doors within the African American community within this country have opened up for Mr. Trump and we were really just being strategic and make sure we chose the right place”. Come on now, all politicians want your vote.
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“Obviously, my message, I stand by it, but the methodology I do not”, Burns said Tuesday in an interview Tuesday in an interview Tuesday with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day”.
