Trump’s Oval Office prayer masterminded by accused ‘con artist’ with phony degrees: report

The organizer behind Catholic bishops praying over President Donald Trump has a past that should have raised alarms, a new report shows.Mario Enzler, a senior adviser at the Heritage Foundation who arranged Thursday's Oval Office prayer, was once called a "con artist" by professors who found he had claimed academic degrees he never earned, Christopher Hale of Letters from Leo reported Friday. Hale built on reporting from The Pillar, which found Enzler spent weeks inviting bishops to the event.Enzler served in the Pontifical Swiss Guard under Pope John Paul II from 1989 to 1993 and has since turned that stint into a memoir and a speaking career. He went on to work in banking, teach at the Catholic University of America and, in 2020, take over as business school dean at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.His tenure there ended in 2022. Faculty members digging into his background discovered...