Carrie Prejean Boller has suggested the commissioner’s chairman, Texas LG Dan Patrick, did not have the authority to dismiss her
The White House signed off on the dismissal of Carrie Prejean Boller, a member of its Religious Liberty Commission who hijacked a hearing on Monday to bash Israel, defend Candace Owens, and argue that her Catholic faith prevents her from supporting the Jewish state, two sources familiar told the Washington Free Beacon.
Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick (R.) issued a statement on Wednesday announcing Prejean Boller’s removal from the commission.
“Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission,” Patrick wrote in a statement on X. “No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision.”
In response, Prejean Boller argued that she was still a member of the commission.
“You did not appoint me to the Commission, and you lack authority to remove me from it,” she posted on X. “This is a gross overstepping of your role and leads me to believe you are acting in alignment with a Zionist political framework that hijacked the hearing, rather than in defense of religious liberty.”
“You are speaking without authority, and it is clear your actions reflect a Zionist political agenda, not the President’s, not the U.S. Constitution’s, and not the purpose of this Commission,” Prejean Boller continued, closing her message by stating she “refuse[s] to bend the knee to Israel” and is “no slave to a foreign nation.”
The White House’s involvement in Patrick’s statement rebuts Prejean Boller’s claims. The news comes after a Monday hearing in which Prejean Boller demanded that Jewish witnesses there to speak about their experiences of anti-Semitism in the United States after Oct. 7, 2023, denounce the Jewish state.
“Since we’ve mentioned Israel a total of 17 times, are you willing to condemn what Israel has done in Gaza?” she asked. “You won’t condemn that? Just on the record.”
Prejean Boller, who wore a Palestinian flag pin to the hearing, also used the proceedings as an opportunity to defend podcaster and conspiracy theorist Candace Owens, who has accused Jewish critics of belonging to the “Synagogue of Satan” and falsely claimed Israel was behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
In the days since that hearing, Prejean Boller has attempted to milk the controversy to grow her social media following on X. She now has more than 80,000 followers, most of whom signed up since the controversy exploded.
“Be a good little Goyim and give me a follow👏🏽❤️,” she wrote in a post on Wednesday, writing in another that she would “rather die” than “bend the knee to the state of Israel.” She has also reposted Owens’s statements that “Zionists hate the Catholic Church.”
The former beauty queen said she recommended several Jewish panelists to the commission, including Norman Finkelstein, who has said Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist massacre of innocent Israelis “warms [sic] every fiber of my soul.”
Prejean Boller, who converted to Catholicism in April, has a long history in the public eye. A one-time Miss California, she lost her crown in 2009 after pageant officials accused her of breach of contract over taking illicit photos. She also filmed an “extremely graphic” sex tape that formed part of a lawsuit, leading her to pay the pageant competition a settlement.
“Christians aren’t perfect,” she later told the View.
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