There are few MAGA activists as blindly committed to President Donald Trump as admitted "cult follower" pastor Shane Vaughn, who insists that Trump was raised up by God to become king of America.
It was no surprise then that Vaughn was distraught over the attack at last weekend's White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in which a gunman attempted to break through security with the intention of assassinating Trump and other top government officials.
Vaughn was apparently so distraught that it seems he couldn't even bring himself to learn what actually happened and decided instead to just make up a story about God performing a "bona fide miracle" to save Trump.
"All of our leadership was sitting ducks in a closed-in room," Vaughn said during a recent broadcast. "All someone had to do was stand up, grab their rifle, and literally, pow, pow, pow, and the entire leadership of our nation would be killed in one sitting."
After providing some details about the suspect, Cole Allen, Vaughn then marveled at the supposed "miracle" that saved Trump's life.
"[Allen] opened fire," Vaughn claimed. "He stood up in that room and opened fire. And I sit here tonight telling you, we beheld another miracle. We beheld an impossibility. There is no way that he could not have hit the president or the vice president from where he was. It was literally—the men were sitting there literally as sitting ducks—but we sit here tonight once again with a bona fide miracle."
Contrary to Vaughn's telling, Allen was not in the room, nor did he fire any shots at the president because he was stopped by law enforcement on the floor above the ballroom where the dinner was taking place. The Department of Justice reports that Allen was apprehended on "the Terrace Level of the hotel leading to the hotel’s ballroom," which is a floor below, as this diagram from CNN demonstrates.
While it is understandable that Vaughn is relieved that no harm was done to Trump, he doesn't get to falsify details in order to present it as a God-orchestrated miracle.
