Trump-loving pastor offers strange answer after failed Jim Jordan speakership 'prophecy'
Shane Vaughn, a pro-MAGA Christian pastor in Mississippi, was forced to give a bizarre explanation for why his Biblical "prophecy" about Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) becoming Speaker of the House didn't come true, Newsweek reported on Friday.
Jordan, a famous Freedom Caucus firebrand, was one of several candidates nominated and turned down for speaker during the weekslong House GOP civil war following a band of renegades forcing a vote to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the speakership. After 22 days of internal squabbling, several rival candidates, and former President Donald Trump weighing in against many of them, the GOP finally made a new speaker selection in Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), a far-right former hate group lawyer who believes abortions for any reason should be punishable by hard labor, and was active in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
But Vaughn came up with a creative reason for why his Jordan prophecy was actually right all along....