Among those standing with Trump are former “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, who is now a minister, as well as pastor Darrell Scott of the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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“I don’t see that (blacks) consider the fact that Donald Trump is a Republican”, observes Jesse Lee Peterson of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, or BOND. “And the kids in the housing development came in and beat them up”, he said.
Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Macon, Ga., on Monday.
In an interview after the meeting, Trump declared that “there was great love in the room”.
Christie, who is coming off a big day of endorsements, batted aside Trump’s accusations. A lot of people say that never happened. “He was very weak the other day”.
Scott says he’s already supportive of Trump and took the blame for the controversy, attributing it to “miscommunication on my part”.
It prompted a response from Scott, who was one of the event’s key organizers.
Bishop George Bloomer of Durham, North Carolina said it’s too early to endorse Trump. “Leaders confront challenges. And leaders confront hard people”. “Zero experience. Flaunting a ticket of unbridled bigotry, sexism, racism and everything that is wrong with America”, Vaughn said on her Facebook page, as quoted by The Express. “And the 100 that went in there walked away with nothing, they did it for free”, he said.
“And he seem to have real good answers. No one was angry or upset or anything of that nature”.
Trump met with a coalition of 100 African-American evangelical pastors and religious leaders in a private meeting at Trump Tower.
Last month, a black protester was roughed up by Trump supporters at a rally in Birmingham, Ala. “And they find out that he’s not the person that the media has depicted him to be”. “We can do it”, said Trump. Couzens said Trump apologized for nothing. You know what I’m all for?
“He was there opening to our advice and wanted to hear from us”.
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There was no wide-ranging endorsement from the group, some of whom had said they were surprised when the gathering was advertised as such by Trump’s campaign.
