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Donald Trump met with a group of black pastors for several hours Monday, calling the session an “amazing meeting” that went longer than planned because “we came up with lots of good ideas.”
But there was no wideranging endorsement from the group, some of whom had said they were surprised when Trump’s Republican presidential campaign advertised the meeting as being for that purpose.
“We had a wonderful time in the meeting,” said Darrell Scott, the senior pastor of New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, one of the organizers. “We made a lot of progress. It’s not the last one.”
After many of the religious leaders invited to the meet-and-greet objected over the weekend to its description as an endorsement event, Trump’s campaign decided to keep the meeting private and canceled a press conference afterward meant to announce the support of the pastors.
Instead, a few of the meeting’s participants met with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower. Trump uncharacteristically waited his turn to speak.
“We actually didn’t think we were going to be having a press conference, but we all thought it was such a good meeting that we would do that,” Trump said. “And we have many, many endorsements that came out of the meeting.”