The Trump administration swiftly eliminated Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California winner, from a White Home non secular council amid accusations she labored to “hijack” a listening to on antisemitism, incomes applause from non secular leaders and conservatives.
“Carrie Prejean was thrown off the Non secular Liberty Fee, and thank God,” a former Trump White Home official instructed Fox Information Digital in response to the ouster. “These commissions exist to advance the President’s agenda, to not function a private Jew-hating platform.”
Prejean Boller was ousted from the White Home Non secular Liberty Fee after she labored to “hijack a listening to” held Monday concerning antisemitism within the US to advertise her “personal private and political agenda on any challenge,” in accordance with chair of the fee, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Prejean Boller is the 2009 Miss California USA winner who was stripped of her crown over allegations of breaching contract. She gained nationwide consideration in 2009 for talking out in opposition to legalizing homosexual marriage from the pageant’s stage.
Trump owned the Miss Universe Group on the time and defended Prejean Boller, then Carrie Prejean.
Trump established the non secular liberty fee in Could by way of an govt order directing the Division of Justice to supply assist to the newly fashioned physique targeted on upholding “Federal legal guidelines that defend all residents’ full participation in a pluralistic democracy, and defend the free train of faith.”
The fee held a listening to Monday on the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC on combating antisemitism and upholding non secular freedom, the place Prejean Boller wore a Palestinian flag pin and received into tense exchanges.
Prejean Boller transformed to Catholicism from evangelical Christianity in April and invoked her Catholic religion in feedback rejecting Zionism throughout the listening to.
“I’m a Catholic, and Catholics don’t embrace Zionism,” she stated.
Catholic League President Invoice Donohue swiftly known as for her ouster in an opinion piece printed on his group’s web site, underscoring that she didn’t signify Catholics in her remarks.
“Prejean Boller is a former Miss California and a convert to Catholicism,” he wrote Wednesday. “She doesn’t run a Catholic group, has no Catholic credentials as an creator or teacher, and certainly represents nobody however herself. For her to say, with out qualification, that ‘Catholics don’t embrace Zionism,’ is presumptuous and boastful.”
“Zionism is a motion that promotes Jewish self-determination in a homeland,” he stated. “There are thousands and thousands of Catholics like myself who, even when they don’t determine themselves as Zionists, acknowledge the Jewish state of Israel. Prejean Boller apparently doesn’t — she is extra snug displaying up on the Non secular Liberty Fee sporting a Palestinian flag pin. So telling.”
Shawn Carney, president and CEO of 40 Days for Life pro-life group, added in remark to Fox Digital that her “declare that Catholics are in opposition to Jews is absurd.”
“This division is a current fad and an internet invention,” Carney stated. “For hundreds of years, Catholics have understood that Jesus Christ is the achievement of the Davidic kingdom and that our religion comes from the Jews. Catholic educating holds that the Church is the achievement of the guarantees of the Previous Covenant. To out of the blue declare that Catholics are in opposition to Jews is absurd — it’s a trendy, internet-based error.”
He added that Trump has a really sturdy monitor document of hiring and appointing Catholics to his administration, noting “no president in trendy historical past has completed extra to guard non secular liberty for each Catholics and Jews.”
At one level, Prejean Boller received right into a heated alternate with Shabbos Kestenbaum, a former Harvard pupil who sued the college over its response to antisemitism.
“Are you keen to sentence what Israel has completed in Gaza?” Prejean Boller requested Kestenbaum throughout the listening to. “You received’t condemn that? Simply on the document.”
She additionally defended Candace Owens when pressed by Babylon Bee founder and CEO Seth Dillon if the commentator had ever made antisemitic remarks.
“Do you suppose something Candace has stated is antisemitic?” he requested her, after referring to Owens as one of many “most well-known antisemites” within the present political panorama.
“No, I don’t,” Prejean Boller replied.
The previous Trump White Home official continued in feedback to Fox Digital that backing Israel has lengthy been a precedence for President Donald Trump.
“President Donald Trump has been clear for many years that he stands proudly with the Jewish individuals and with America’s closest ally, Israel,” the previous official stated. “Supporting Israel and standing with Jewish People is not only morally proper, it’s America First.”
“President Trump delivered historic victories for the Jewish individuals. He acknowledged Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved the US Embassy there. He acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. He brokered the Abraham Accords and reshaped the Center East. He saved his promise to carry each final hostage residence and made clear that antisemitism at residence might be confronted head on, together with holding universities accountable when Jewish college students are focused.”
Conservatives and others on social media celebrated her ouster whereas condemning her remarks on the listening to.
“The one one who introduced up Zionism on the occasion was… Carrie Prejean Boller,” account Bonchie posted. “Traditional grifter play occurring right here. Trigger a scene of her personal making, declare to be the sufferer, revenue. A narrative as outdated as time.”
“No matter you consider the remainder of Carrie Prejean Boller’s views, sporting a Palestinian flag to a listening to on non secular liberty is disgraceful,” Jim Hanson, president of WorldStrat data warfare agency and chief editor of the Center East Discussion board, posted.
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz stated that whereas he doesn’t personally know Prejean Boller, what he noticed of her actions was “simply unhappy.”
“There are 57 Muslim nations on Earth; this poor factor has been deluded into considering that the truth that Israel exists — within the promised land given to the Jewish individuals hundreds of years in the past by Jehovah — is in some way the supply of all her troubles.” he wrote. “And no, Catholics don’t hate Israel. As Charlie Kirk stated repeatedly, antisemitism is a mind rot, and somebody has been pouring this poison into her head.”
Patrick stated he personally made the choice to take away her, whereas Prejean Boller responded on X that solely the president might order her removing.
“You didn’t appoint me to the Fee, and also you lack authority to take away me from it,” Prejean Boller wrote on X in response to Patrick. “This can be a gross overstepping of your position and leads me to consider you might be appearing in alignment with a Zionist political framework that hijacked the listening to, relatively than in protection of non secular liberty.”
Cruz shot again on X: “Let’s be clear: it was President Trump who fired her.”
The previous Miss California has continued to stay by her remarks, saying she “won’t ever bend the knee to the state of Israel. Ever.”
“Christians have been manipulated into believing that God blesses bombing, hunger, and mass killing,” Prejean posted to X. “That’s the reverse of Christ, who got here to face with the struggling and confront energy. I reject that lie fully. I’m not owned by cash, donors, or entry. I belong to Christ alone who’s the Approach, the Reality, and the Life. I might relatively die than bend the knee to Israel.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to the White Home for extra touch upon the matter Thursday, and tried to succeed in Prejean Boller Friday for remark.
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