By Frank Bruni
New York Times
July 16, 2020
As the start of his prison sentence approached, Roger Stone didn’t despair.
“I had prayed fervently,” the felon told Mike Allen of Axios in a phone interview a few days ago, adding that he believed that “the whole matter was in God’s hands” and that “God would provide.”
“And he did,” Stone said.
No, Mr. Stone. President Trump provided. That’s who commuted your sentence and set you free, which you have no business being. And this conflation of human corruption and divine intervention, of “The Apprentice” and the Almighty, has gone too far and has to stop. It’s an insult to true faith. It’s cheap.