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Trump abruptly cancels black clergy press conference
Politico ^

Posted on 11/29/2015 3:40:44 PM PST by springwater13

The campaign originally announced the press conference in a press release on Wednesday, writing, “Trump will be joined by a coalition of 100 African American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the GOP frontrunner after a private meeting at Trump Tower.”

But some of those listed as invitees quickly took to social media to condemn the billionaire businessman. Detroit pastor Corletta Vaughn called Trump “an insult and embarrassment” in a Wednesday Facebook post.

Amid the furor, the campaign canceled the public portion of the event. The private meeting will go forward as planned, and Scott said that the guest list has continued to grow in recent days. Even as some pastors drop out, he said he expects the total attendance to exceed 100. “Ever since this controversy came out of this meeting, more pastors have contacted me seeking admission,” he said.

It is not clear how many endorsements Trump will receive following the meeting.

Scott said that the criticism he and other black pastors have faced from for dealing with Trump has been withering.

“We’ve been called Uncle Toms, sellouts, coons … We have preachers calling us ‘prostitutes on a pole,’” he lamented, referring to an epithet leveled by one Baltimore minister. “If Donald Trump said that, the entire nation would be in an uproar.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016trump; blackchurch; christianvote; pastors; trump2016; weaksisters
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To: springwater13

The meeting will happen but the media will not know who attended so they won’t have a chance to crucify the attendees and smear them in their rags.

But the Trump campaign will still be able to announce the number of endorsements if they choose. But they are protecting the names from attacks by the scumbags in the media.


21 posted on 11/29/2015 3:53:15 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: springwater13

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“Hey everybody! Massa says get back on the plantation NOW!”
A bridge too far and too heavily defended... the Dems own ‘Black’ leaders.


22 posted on 11/29/2015 3:53:40 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: springwater13
But some of those listed as invitees quickly took to social media to condemn the billionaire businessman. Detroit pastor Corletta Vaughn called Trump "an insult and embarrassment" in a Wednesday Facebook post.

Amid the furor, the campaign canceled the public portion of the event. The private meeting will go forward as planned...

I'm guessing Pastor Corletta Vaughn has been disnivited to the private meeting.

23 posted on 11/29/2015 3:53:44 PM PST by Vision Thing
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To: DoodleDawg
Trump set the meeting up and invited the attendees. Shouldn't he have known that ahead of time? Otherwise why invite them?

Just giving them enough rope.

The next decade is going to be BAD for American commies, no matter what color they are.

24 posted on 11/29/2015 3:53:55 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: springwater13

This is Politico; you have to ask how much of it is true!


25 posted on 11/29/2015 3:55:19 PM PST by celmak (GO TED CRUZ !!!)
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To: God luvs America

Keep dem vote slaves on de liberal plantation.

Don’ let’em git uppity, now.


26 posted on 11/29/2015 3:56:16 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: springwater13
Amid the furor, the campaign canceled the public portion of the event. The private meeting will go forward as planned, and Scott said that the guest list has continued to grow in recent days. Even as some pastors drop out, he said he expects the total attendance to exceed 100. “Ever since this controversy came out of this meeting, more pastors have contacted me seeking admission,” he said.

You have to look past the headline. The press conference was cancelled, not the meeting.

Which, apparently, has grown in the number of attendees.

Let's hope the iron shackles the Dems have had on the blacks for the last 50 years are beginning to fall off.

27 posted on 11/29/2015 3:56:21 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Rome2000
The next decade is going to be BAD for American commies, no matter what color they are

I thought commies were red.
28 posted on 11/29/2015 3:56:27 PM PST by PJBankard
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To: hal ogen

He’s basically done it before, when customers backed out of using his facilities because if his politics - but still had to pay the contracted amount. He floated that he got paid double in those cases, once for the party that cancelled and once for the subsequent scheduled use of the now-available venue.


29 posted on 11/29/2015 3:57:35 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Sounds like you are tickled that black pastors are being coerced via Cultural Marxism to dissociate themselves with the leading Republican candidate. I guess you would prefer them to remain on the Democrat plantation as slaves.


30 posted on 11/29/2015 3:57:44 PM PST by Vision Thing
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To: springwater13

Black social justice a-holes are at it again. I hope the decent black ministers stand tough and united for Trump.


31 posted on 11/29/2015 3:57:54 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: erlayman
It is pretty basic knowledge that pastors and churches aren’t allowed to endorse candidates for public office.

Do you have a direct quote from Trump or his campaign saying that the pastors would endorse him?

32 posted on 11/29/2015 3:58:07 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Hostage

You are right on target. I expect some to step forward anyways. Pastor Darrell who was the liaison has taken some of the blame. I don’t think he expected the pressure they got. Some good people I am sure.


33 posted on 11/29/2015 3:58:30 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Red Steel
No doubt in my mind that the Establishment Dims put pressure on them.

Why would you believe that the corrupt sellout backstabbing pocket-lining GOPe had nothing to do with it.

34 posted on 11/29/2015 3:58:45 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: springwater13

Is there a way one slowly cancels a press conference? Abruptly cancels?


35 posted on 11/29/2015 3:58:47 PM PST by Solson (Grand Old Party 1854 - 2010 RIP.)
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To: AndyJackson
Why would you believe that the corrupt sellout backstabbing pocket-lining GOPe had nothing to do with it.

No, I would not rule them out too.

36 posted on 11/29/2015 4:00:08 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: God luvs America

All of the dark skinned ones are supposed to vote democrat.


37 posted on 11/29/2015 4:01:05 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Vision Thing

No, it sounds like Trump invited all these pastors to a meeting—and that’s all they signed up for, i.e., a meeting—but then he prematurely assumed that they would of course endorse him, when that was not part of the deal.


38 posted on 11/29/2015 4:02:35 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: erlayman
It is pretty basic knowledge that pastors and churches aren’t allowed to endorse candidates for public office.

As individuals, pastors can endorse anyone; churches are not to do so, as that would put their IRS exemption at risk.

Although, for black churches, the IRS gives them a pass, and just goes after white churches for such violations.

39 posted on 11/29/2015 4:04:26 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

Thank you.


40 posted on 11/29/2015 4:04:37 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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