A former Miss California has accused President Donald Trump of betraying his most loyal supporters after being fired from a White House religious post over her comments on Israel.
Carrie Prejean Boller was sacked from the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Commission after ‘hijacking’ a February 9 hearing examining the rise of anti-Semitism.
Prejean Boller engaged in tense exchanges with Jewish witnesses, including rabbis and students, who were giving evidence about abuse they had suffered after the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, which left 1,200 dead.
The 38-year-old, who is married to former NFL quarterback Kyle Boller, published an open letter to Trump on Thursday, claiming that he was surrounded by ‘heretics’ who supported Israel over America.
She pointed out that the President had once stood firmly by her side during one of the most controversial moments of her early career.
At just 21, she sparked nationwide debate during the Miss USA pageant after expressing her belief that marriage should be defined as a union between a man and a woman. At the time, Donald Trump, who owned the pageant, publicly defended her right to voice her opinion and allowed her to retain her crown despite the backlash.
‘I have not changed one bit since the day you stood beside me in 2009. That is why it is so shocking to now be removed from a Religious Liberty Commission for doing the very same thing you once defended,’ Prejean Boller wrote.
The mother-of-two accused Trump’s evangelical spiritual adviser, Paula White, of launching a ‘witch hunt’ against her, claiming she had attempted to ban her from posting on social media about Israel and Gaza.
Prejean Boller lashed Trump for retreating from his non-interventionist principles, saying she had supported him for 20 years but ‘now, I don’t even recognize you.’
‘The MAGA I knew would never allow American troops to die for a foreign government,’ Prejean Boller wrote, referring to the Israel-backed war in Iran, which has killed seven US service members since it began two weeks ago.
‘America’s sons and daughters are being sent to the Middle East to be sacrificed at the altar of heresy and false prophecy.’
She said that she had a duty to speak out against the war in Gaza as ‘my Christian faith does not allow me to ignore human suffering … while the United States and my tax dollars are paying for it.’
Prejean Boller responded to claims that she had hijacked the hearing by insisting that she had asked legitimate questions about whether Israel was beyond criticism.
‘I did exactly what commissioners are supposed to do. I asked questions,’ she wrote.
‘I thought MAGA was putting America first, not Israel. Today, I struggle to recognize the movement you started. It appears to have been hijacked by a foreign government and religious zealots attempting to fulfill their heretical end times fantasy.’
Prejean Boller concluded her letter by saying she would pray for Trump’s salvation.
‘Your eternal legacy is dependent on you entering the Kingdom of heaven, and I sure hope that one day, I will see you there,’ she wrote.
