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Donald Trump's campaign says he will pick up 100 black religious leaders' endorsement Monday
The support comes after Trump courted racial and religious controversies
Donald Trump’s campaign says he’ll pick up the endorsement of a coalition of 100 African-American pastors and evangelical leaders Monday in New York City.
The real estate mogul and Republican presidential front-runner’s campaign announced the endorsement – which it said will come after a private meeting at Trump Tower – on Wednesday.
Trump’s campaign scheduled an endorsement event for 1 p.m. ET. It has not released the names of the religious leaders who are set to endorse Trump.
The endorsements would come a little more than a week after Trump stirred racial controversies.
He cheered a crowd’s physical ejection of a Black Lives Matter protester from an event in Birmingham, Alabama, saying the man might have deserved to be “roughed up.”
And Trump retweeted an image of fake, racially-charged crime figures that attribute far more black-on-white murders to blacks than FBI crime statistics show actually happen.
Trump also found himself in a religion-driven controversy after he claimed several times that thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks. There’s no evidence that actually took place. Still, Trump has said hundreds of Twitter followers have tweeted at him, saying they saw the same thing.