It’s no secret that twice failed presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was a mess following her loss to President Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. But now it turns out that even the prayer she was given by her pastor to help her cope was phony!
Hillary Clinton’s pastor embarrassingly admits he plagiarized part of the prayer he sent her the day after she lost.
The prayer is at the heart of a new book published Tuesday by the Rev. Bill Shillady of the United Methodist Church. It’s a collection of the devotionals he emailed Clinton during the campaign.
Shillady said he was “stunned” to learn of the similarities between his prayer and a blog post by the Rev. Matt Deuel of Mission Point Community Church in Warsaw, Indiana.
Shillady says he has apologized to Deuel and will give the Indiana pastor full credit. His publisher, Abingdon Press, says it believes the similarities between the two prayers were unintentional.
Clinton is scheduled to appear with Shillady at a September 7 event in New York.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.