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Black Pastors Meet With Trump And Get Blasted By Social Media For Accomplishing Nothing
Pastors meeting with President Trump.
Pres. Trump Just Made Two Problematic
Donald Trump met with a group of influential Black religious leaders on Wednesday and that has many scratching their heads after one of the pastors praised the president as the “most pro-Black president” in recent history while slam- ming President Obama.
The White House called the gathering Pres. Trump’s “Meeting with Inner City Pastors” and pre- sented it as an opportunity to discuss prison reform and opportunites for ex-convicts, re-opening of steel mills, urban issues, job growth for minorities the president’s leadership and faith.
Darrell Scott, an O h i o pastor who has cozied up to the administration by calling out the ills of the Black community, used the opportunity to kiss-up to Trump instead of calling out the high number of po- lice shootings against Blacks in a neighboring city.
“This is probably the most pro-active administration regarding urban America
and the faith-based commu- nity in my lifetime,” Scott told the group.
“This is probably going be ... the most pro-Black presi- dent that we’ve had in our lifetime.”
Scott continued spewing fake news saying that Presi- dent Barack Obama did- n’t do anything for the Black community.
“This president actually wants to prove something to our community, our faith- based community and our ethnic community. The last president didn’t feel like he had to,” Scott said and then added that he believes Obama “Got a pass.”
Also in attendance was OWN reality TV star John Gray, the head of Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina.
After a few opening state- ments and greetings from the president, he asked Gray to start the conversa- tion with a prayer.
“God, we thank you for an opportunity to speak about the hearts of those who
sometimes cannot fight for themselves. Thank you for this moment to be able to share our hearts with the president and his adminis- tration,” Gray said, accord- ing to White House transcripts. “Dr. King said we cannot influence a table that we are not seated at. And so we pray that this con- versation will be fruitful, and productive, and honoring of the best traditions of this na- tion. We further pray that you will continue to give wis- dom and insight to our Pres- ident and his leadership team to be what our nation needs, to build this country from the inside out, that we will continue to be a beacon of hope and light around this world.”
Scott’s comments re- ceived swift backlash online. One influential Pastor Jamal H. Bryant took to a live video to ad- dress the Trump meeting and criticized the pastors for failing to use the movement to their benefit to better their communities.
President Trump has yet again tweeted about his personal legal issues in a way he perhaps shouldn't have.
The Washington Post re- ported Saturday that Trump had expressed concerns in the past week about his son Don- ald Trump, Jr.'s legal expo- sure from the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. In a tweet about that report on Sunday, Trump said, “This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!”
Two issues.
The first is that Trump appears to have broken some new ground here when it comes to admitting the true purpose of the Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin- aligned lawyer — and even further contradicted the ini- tial statement he helped draft about it. At the time, Donald Trump, Jr. issued a state- ment explaining that he and the lawyer, Natalia Vesel- nitskaya, had “primarily dis- cussed a program about the
adoption of Russian chil- dren.” We have since discov- ered that the elder Trump actually dictated that state- ment.
Quickly, though, that ex- planation fell apart, and we learned that Trump Jr. had actually been promised harm- ful information about Democ- rats, including Hillary Clinton. The president him- self seemed to shrug it off, saying in July 2017 that, “from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting.” He added: “It’s called opposition research or even research into your oppo- nent.” (Trump also tweeted along these lines.) But at the same time, he still suggested that the meeting was, in large part, about adoption.
Sunday's tweet appears to acknowledge more explicitly than before that the meeting was indeed predicated on op- position research: “This was a meeting to get information on an opponent.” The initial de- nial — which, again, Trump himself dictated — is pretty ir- reconcilable with that.
Admissions About The Trump Tower Meeting
President Trump's lawyers now say he dictated Donald Trump Jr.'s response to the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, contradicting months of previous assertions.
Omarosa’s Back, Charges Trump Showed Signs Of Mental Decline
WASHINGTON — A for- mer White House staffer is claiming in a new book that President Donald Trump has exhibited a “mental de- cline that could not be de- nied.”
An excerpt from Oma- rosa Manigault-New- man’s new book was pub- lished Thursday by DailyMail.com.
The former reality televi- sion star, who appeared on Trump’s “The Apprentice” and later served as an assis-
OMAROSA
tant to the president, says she was disturbed by a famous interview Trump gave to Lester Holt.
She writes that, while watching the interview on tel- evision, she “realized that something real and serious was going on in Donald’s brain” and that his “mental decline could not be denied.”
She says, “I kept thinking, ‘Oh no! Oh no! This is bad!”
The White House did not immediately respond to a re- quest for comment.
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