A Detroit pastor delivered a rousing benediction at the close of President Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday. The pastor invoked the powerful words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.Detroit Pastor Lorenzo Sewell gave a moving speech at Trump's inauguration, often invoking the iconic words of Martin Luther King Jr. on MLK Day. 'We are grateful that you are the one that have called him for such a time as this, that America would begin to dream again.'"We know that Dr. Martin Luther King, he said, 'Let freedom ring.' We want to not only say it, we wanted to pray it," Sewell said, according to the Detroit News. "And now we need to act. These next four years are going to be a time of liberation.""People that are in political shackles, spiritual shackles, emotional shackles, mental shackles ― regardless of what shackle you're in, we're believing there will be freedom, and our country will unify in a way it's never unified before," Sewell told the crowd. "We pray that you use our president that we will live in a nation where we'll not be judged by the color or our skin but by the content of our character," stated Sewell, invoking the words from King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. "We are grateful today that you would use our 47th president so we would sing with new meaning, 'our country 'tis of thee.'"According to the Detroit Free Press, Sewell gave thanks to God for the "millimeter miracle" that saved Trump from the first assassination attempt on his life at a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. "We are grateful that you are the one that have called him for such a time as this, that America would begin to dream again," said Sewell — pastor of 180 Church in west Detroit.After his moving speech, Trump reportedly told Sewell, "You're special. You're so good."Sewell told the Detroit News, "And he's told me that before, but obviously that is a very special moment because he's stepping into office. It's his time now."Sewell, 43, noted that it was "very humbling" that "God would allow us to be part of history."Sewell previously hosted a roundtable in Detroit for Trump in June and spoke at the Republican National Convention last summer in Milwaukee.Other religious leaders who spoke at Trump's inauguration were Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, the president of Yeshiva University in New York, and the Rev. Father Frank Mann of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.You can watch Rev. Pastor Lorenzo's riveting speech at President Trump's inauguration here. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Former President Joe Biden issued some very controversial pardons just before exiting the Oval Office, and many are finding Democrats' reactions to be hypocritical. Biden issued pre-emptive pardons for members of his family as well as political figures who had earned the ire of President Donald Trump, but many Democrats had criticized just such pardons not too long ago. In 2020, a report surfaced that Trump might issue pardons for Rudy Giuliani as well as Trump's adult children. 'If you haven't done anything wrong you sit there and go, 'What do you need a preemptive pardon for?''Left-wing commentators issued their disfavor at the time, and a viral video captured their sentiments to show the hypocritical double standard. MSNBC host Joy Reid implied that pre-emptive pardons would only be given to someone who had committed a crime. "Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who is innocent of all crime, who is just an innocent person, have you ever heard of that?" asked Reid to Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California. "No, it's the president's own family! It's people that have been covering up for the president in addition to his own family," said Schiff at the time. Another exchange showed MSNBC's Brian Williams interviewing Andrew Weissmann, the former lead prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller. "Is there an innocent explanation for someone to seek preemptive pardons for family members? Would you do that if you knew you were innocent and just worried about outside forces?" asked Williams. "The answer to that is gonna be no," responded Weissmann. "If you haven't done anything wrong you sit there and go, 'What do you need a preemptive pardon for?'" Chris Hayes of MSNBC excoriated the "magic pardon wand" when it was reported that Trump might wield it. "The idea of a kind of prospective pardon, this sort of permanent federal 'Get Out of Jail Free' card, that seems to be what we're talking about in the case of, this, Giuliani and [Trump's] three eldest children who, as far as we know, have not been convicted of a crime," said Hayes. "Maybe they've committed a lot!" he laughed. "And they don't want to face action! I don't know. It's weird, I wouldn't ask for a pardon, I don't think I deserve one because I don't think I've done anything criminal. But like, where does that come from, that concept that you can just kind of wave your magic pardon wand?" The video showed other figures expressing outrage, including commentator Elie Mystal, on the viral video with more than 1.2 million views. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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