Oklahoma Pastor Had Vouched for Darryl Strawberry
Baseball great Darryl Strawberry was welcomed to the Sheridan Church pulpit by Lead Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer, founder of Pastors for Trump. Lahmeyer, who’s been called a Christian nationalist, became active in politics during the pandemic after fighting shut-down orders.
The pastor, a member of the National Faith Advisory Board, said he talked to President Trump a few months ago about Strawberry—but denied requesting a pardon. “We were just talking about how Darryl had completely transformed his life and that he was coming to preach at my church,” said Lahmeyer, “which the president thought was just incredible.”
Strawberry befriended Trump in 2010, while appearing on the TV show “Celebrity Apprentice.” During a Nov. 6 phone call from the president, Strawberry said the two men discussed his baseball career for a while.
Then, the former athlete recalled, “[President Trump] told me, ‘You know you did some very bad things.’ But he said, ‘Today, the way your life is and what you’re doing, your faith and helping people and being sober, I’m giving you a full pardon. You’re going to be clean. I’m wiping everything out.’”
Strawberry, who travels on the speaking circuit about 260 days per year, said, “God has really changed my life and kind of brought me to a really humbling place of doing his work.”
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In March 2024, Strawberry praised God after surviving a heart attack. The 1983 National League Rookie of the Year is also a cancer survivor, and his wife of 19 years recently had cancer surgery.
