DETROIT—
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump will attempt to mend his rocky
relationship with the African American community with a visit to a Black church
here this Saturday.

However, Trump
will not be speaking to the congregation at Great Faith Ministries International,
as initially believed. At the church, he will attend the service and be
interviewed by Bishop T. Jackson, the congregation’s leader, according to the
Detroit Free Press.

The interview,
which will be closed to the public and press, will air on the church’s Impact
Network, which reaches about 50 million homes, according to its website, about
a week after recording.

“My
congregation trusts my judgment,” Jackson told The Free Press regarding
Trump not addressing the congregation. “They know that I’m not going to
put anything or anyone in front of them that I feel is going to be harmful; and
I feel we should have an educated conversation about what you’re going to
do.”

A risky step for
the nominee, his team will leave nothing to chance.

A leaked
eight-page script shows 12 questions of the interview obtained by The New York
Times, revealing calculated answers devised by Trump’s campaign to questions
submitted in advance.

The draft includes
exact words of campaign aides’ proposed answers to questions about police
killings, racial tensions and insinuations about Trump being a racist.

An anonymous
official involved with the planning told the Times that, “Several Trump
aides would be working with the network to edit the taped interview so that the
final version reflected the campaign’s wishes.”

The visit follows
Trump’s repeated message throughout rallies in Michigan and nationwide to African
American voters asking, “What in the hell do you have to lose?”

Results from an
NBC News-Wall Street Journal-Marist poll published in July reports that 6
percent of African Americans will cast their vote for Trump. The report also
reveals about 0 percent of black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania will choose
Trump at the polls. A Quinnipiac poll released at the end of June shows Trump
has earned only 1 percent of Black votes around the country.

The visit would be
Trump’s third to Michigan since the Republican National Convention. He gave a
speech on the economy to the Detroit Economic Club last month and was in
Dimondale last week.

Here is one
drafted reply:

Is your campaign
racist? “The proof, as they say, will be in the pudding. Coming into a
community is meaningless unless we offer an alternative to the horrible
progressive agenda that has perpetuated a permanent underclass in America.”

Trump is advised not to say “racist”
and is counseled to talk about improving education and getting welfare
recipients back to work.