'Really shady bro': Pastor blows whistle on pro-Trump 'prophet' brother as a fraud

A self-styled Christian "prophet" who embraced Donald Trump and his first bid for the presidency in 2016 while claiming God was speaking to him has been outed by his pastor brother as a fake. As the Post's Danielle Paquette wrote, Josiah Johnson wrote to his own 5,000 followers, "What if you found out that your favorite prophet or pastor wasn’t sexually abusing anyone but INSTEAD they were completely and totally fabricating their dreams, visions, and prophetic words?” According to the Post, Jeremiah's pastorship exploded in popularity with his leaning into politics and his admiration for the New York real estate developer's first foray into running for office. "Holy forecasts about Trump soon took off like a 'prophetic meme,'religion scholar Matthew D. Taylor pointed out, and Politico woulddescribe Jeremiah as a 'wunderkind' who had helped seed the idea among the religious right that the Lord was backing Trump," Pacquette explained before writing that Josiah began to became disturbed by what he was reading and hearing. He can’t find a copy of it today, he said, but he’d beenso proud of the verses, he’d shared them with Jeremiah," the report states with Josiah claiming he confronted his brother and texted him, "Jerry … Jenn was really upset when you took my message ‘the boom in the upper room’ that I shared with you and released it as your own." According to the Post, the father of the two, also a pastor has asked Josiah to delete his his "false prophet” accusations, writing, "It’s an embarrassment to me and our whole family."