White House adviser pitching Trump on a Kanye summit [View all]

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Source: Politico




Pastor Darrell Scott wants the president to bring black artists and athletes to Washington for a dialogue about race.

By BEN SCHRECKINGER 05/02/2018 03:15 PM EDT

The White House is exploring plans to host multiple summits on race between prominent athletes and artists and President Donald Trump, according to the outside adviser spearheading the effort.

Cleveland pastor Darrell Scott, one of the president’s most prominent black allies, says the idea of bringing in artists and athletes to hash out their differences with Trump has gotten a boost from last week’s lovefest between the president and Kanye West. Scott is set to meet Thursday with Trump at the White House about the summit proposal.

The plans remain preliminary and no dates have been set, though Scott expressed confidence the summits would go forward and that Trump would attend. “It’s going to be unscripted, unfiltered, blunt,” Scott said. “No topic is off the table.”

Scott – who works closely with Jared Kushner on prison reform and is spearheading a White House-backed plan to revitalize poor urban neighborhoods – is organizing the summit effort in conjunction with Andrew Giuliani, a top aide in the White House Office of Public Liaison who is also the son of former New York City mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

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