The Detroit pastor who hosted Donald Trump's much ridiculed church roundtable — which was promoted as a reach-out to Black voters but later shown to have a large white turnout — said people laughed in his face when he suggested they attend. Pastor Lorenzo Sewell appeared on MSNBC Sunday night to d...
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      “For him to have a community conversation, I thought it was an opportunity to be able to really give the least of these, the disenfranchised and marginalized, an opportunity to have a voice at the table because typically we’re on the menu,” Sewell said. “If you come to Grand River, if you walk through our community, you will see, quite frankly, that it’s desolate. … (Trump campaign officials) didn’t want to talk to people that had high prestige and high power positions. They wanted to talk to the least of these.”

      If that’s what this guy really believed, he’s a naïve fool. Trump doesn’t give a shit what poor people have to say and he only gives a shit about black people if they’re rich and they only say nice things about him.

      The Trump campaign officials wanting to talk to “the least of these” is utter hogwash unless by “the least,” they mean morally.