Donald Trump said Thursday he knew “something was up” with the Flint pastor who interrupted his speech on the city’s water crisis because she was a “nervous mess” the whole time.
“And I’ll tell you the audience was fantastic but she was so nervous, she was like a nervous mess, and so I figured something was up,” the Republican presidential nominee said during a phone interview on Fox News Thursday.
“When she got up to introduce me she was so nervous she was shaking and I said ‘wow, this is strange’ and then she came up. So she had that in mind, there is no question about it,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends.”
Rev. Faith Green Timmons of the Bethel United Methodist Church took to the stage during his speech on Wednesday as he talked about his opponent Democrat Hillary Clinton, telling Trump, “I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done in Flint, not give a political speech.”
In a since-deleted Facebook post, the pastor wrote, “We have our chance to show Donald Trump that this nation is filled with intelligent, wise black citizens of integrity many of whom live right in Flint, Michigan. What he will see is how we are braving a man-made catastrophe. HE WILL NOT USE US, WE will EDUCATE HIM!!!”
When asked whether he objected to the interruption, Trump said “No it doesn’t bother me. I mean everyone plays the game.”
The pastor’s Facebook page currently includes a post stating, “Had he stuck to what his camp claimed he came to do, we would not have had a problem! – Good night”
“I’ll tell you what made me feel good, the audience was saying ‘let him speak, let him speak,'” said Trump, who added that “mostly African-American people” attended his speech in Flint, Mich.
