Roger Stone has been in and out of Donald Trump's orbit for more than four decades. But since Trump commuted his three-year prison sentence for lying to federal investigators, the self-proclaimed specialist in political 'dirty tricks' had been preaching the gospel of Trumpism to the former president's most fervent religious supporters.
Matthew D. Taylor has studied the world of"independent charismatic" evangelicals, the specific stream of Christianity that Stone and Flynn are catering to with their political and religious rhetoric. Taylor is the Protestant scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, and ison these believers and their ties to the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Taylor believes that Stone and Flynn are “looking to have much more direct influence in that world, not mediated by pastors and prophets and rabbis but by their own speaking of charismatic language.” “My sense is [Stone] has recognized how important this sector of Christianity is for the ongoing radicalized Trump base,” Taylor told Yahoo News. “I think he's been cultivating his own ability to speak to that world and his own credibility in it, in hopes of him having some sway with it.”
Stone has long been interested in bypassing traditional media to reach people directly. Taylor’s theory is that he is trying to go around established authorities inside the Charismatic evangelical world as well to gain more influence. Stone did not respond to a request for comment.
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