Donald Trump’s pastors meeting backfires

Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump was forced into a humiliating climbdown when he had to cancel a public event yesterday where he had planned to announce endorsements from black pastors.

The cancellation came after a group of African-American academics and clergy members urged them to reconsider, citing Trump’s “racially inaccurate ... rhetoric.”

Trump sent out word to media outlets last week that he would hold an early afternoon news conference to announce the endorsement of his campaign by “100 African American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders... after a private meeting.”