Freed US pastor Andrew Brunson prays God gives Donald Trump ‘supernatural wisdom’
Trump: ‘From a Turkish prison to the White House in 24 hours, that’s not bad’
Andrew Brunson, the American pastor freed from prison in Turkey, prayed over Donald Trump at the White House.
In response, the president asked who Brunson and his wife had voted for in the presidential election that took place weeks after the pastor’s arrest in 2016.
Brunson, who said he voted by mail, and his wife, Norine, indicated they backed Trump. The president said he had known that already.
Minutes earlier, Brunson had kneeled, grasped Trump’s shoulder and asked God to grant the president “supernatural wisdom”.
“Make him a great blessing for this country,” Brunson said in the Oval Office, where he and his family gathered Saturday with Trump, administration officials including the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the national security adviser, John Bolton, and Republican members of Congress.
“From a Turkish prison to the White House in 24 hours, that’s not bad,” Trump said.