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The Trump Prophets Regroup

posted on September 22, 2021

For The New York Times, Sam Kestenbaum reports that Charisma, the Pentecostal media company helmed by Stephen E. Strang, is trying to regroup after Trump’s loss in 2020. A number of Christian prophets who regularly contributed content to the media company falsely predicted that the former president would win. Kestenbaum writes, “When you are in the business of prophecy, what do you do when prophecy fails?” He adds, “Mr. Strang seems to have discovered that one way to handle being publicly wrong is to change the subject and to pray readers stick around.”

Read at The New York Times