President Donald Trump, whose weekend Twitter tirade targeted Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings and TV host-activist Al Sharpton, met with 20 or so African-American pastors Monday to discuss numerous issues facing the African American community.
“What I was impressed by is how much support we got from the African American pastors,” Maryland Bishop Harry Jackson told the Christian Post. “And they’re basically saying that we realize that we’re in a volatile, contentious political environment but we think that Trump has been more than faithful in just following up and making sure things that he promises he does.”
The meeting, which was not listed on the White House’s Monday schedule, came after a Twitter exchange in which Trump took Cummings to task, calling his congressional district a rat-infested and crime-ridden place “no human being would want to live.”
Trump went on to call the House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman a “racist,” adding that “his radical ‘oversight’ is a joke.” Cummings has been highly critical of Trump’s border policies and has pushed for numerous investigations against the President and his administration.
On Monday, Trump turned his attention to Al Sharpton, calling him a “con man” after the MSNBC pundit came to Cummings’ defense.
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