Black Pastors Meeting With Donald Trump: This Isn’t An Endorsement!

Businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)
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Some of the black pastors scheduled to meet with the Donald Trump Monday are pushing back at his campaign’s claims that they will endorse him after the meeting. According to the Daily Beast, a number of pastors have taken to social media to deny that the meeting means Trump will gain their support.

“I am not officially endorsing ANY candidate and when I do you will NOT need to hear it from pulpitting courtjesters who suffer from intellectual and spiritual myopia,” Bishop Clarence McClendon, a Los Angeles-based minister who had been invited to the meeting, said on Facebook, the Daily Beast reported. O

Other religious leaders, including some based in Detroit and Atlanta, also said they did not intend to endorse Trump, according to the Daily Beast report.

The Trump campaign had said in a press release earlier this week that, “Mr. 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.”

The campaign did not respond to the Daily Beast’s inquiries as to which of the pastors will endorse Trump.

Pastor Darrell Scott, who is organizing Monday’s meeting, admitted to the Daily Beast that his invitation to the other pastors did not mean that they were endorsing the GOP frontrunner.

“All of these guys are my friends and they know me,” Scott said. “I let them know I am endorsing but that doesn’t mean you are endorsing.”

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  1. They should just not attend.

  2. Sheesh! If Trump were actually elected president, God forbid, not just his statements, but every single syllable out of his mouth would have to be fact-checked.

  3. Avatar for azjude azjude says:

    Then why meet with him?

  4. Probably to voice concerns with his rhetoric. I can understand that motive, but it’s foolish for them not to assume that Trump would try to twist such a meeting to match his agenda.

  5. Just wait until he gets them in that private meeting and calls in his goons; they’ll endorse him. (Hey, it’s Trump; that really could be the plan!)

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