Talk about a turn of fortune.
In less than a week, Daniel Penny — the Marine veteran who subdued a threatening, mentally ill homeless man on the New York City subway only to be charged with manslaughter after he died — went from facing decades in prison to facing an appreciative crowd at the Army-Navy game.
Not only that, he was the guest of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.
According to the New York Post, it was actually Vance who invited Penny — who was acquitted by a Manhattan jury on Monday — to sit in the suite with himself and Trump at the game in Landover, Maryland.
The Midshipmen won 31-13 over the favored No. 22 Army Black Knights, perhaps a sign that that fortune continues to favor both Penny and Vance, who — as Marine Corps vets — served under the Navy aegis.