The Trump administration swiftly removed former Miss California USA winner Carrie Prejean Boller from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after officials accused her of attempting to “hijack” a hearing on antisemitism to advance a personal political agenda.
The dramatic fallout has quickly turned into a public feud, with Prejean Boller launching a blistering attack on President Donald Trump and members of the commission after her removal.
According to Fox News, the decision to remove Prejean Boller was praised by multiple religious leaders and conservatives who argued that the commission’s purpose is to defend religious liberty, not serve as a platform for controversial personal activism.
“Carrie Prejean was thrown off the Religious Liberty Commission, and thank God,” a former Trump White House official told Fox News. “These commissions exist to advance the President’s agenda, not to serve as a personal Jew-hating platform.”
The controversy began during a hearing on antisemitism in the United States when Prejean Boller reportedly clashed with witnesses and other participants.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who chairs the commission, said she attempted to derail the proceedings by steering the discussion toward unrelated political issues.
Patrick said she sought to “hijack a hearing” on antisemitism in order to promote “her own personal and political agenda.”
During the hearing, Prejean Boller said, “I am a Catholic, and Catholics don’t embrace Zionism.”
More from Fox News:
Conservatives and others on social media celebrated her ouster while condemning her remarks at the hearing.
“The only one who brought up Zionism at the event was… Carrie Prejean Boller,” account Bonchie posted. “Classic grifter play happening here. Cause a scene of her own making, claim to be the victim, profit. A story as old as time.”
“Whatever you think of the rest of Carrie Prejean Boller’s views, wearing a Palestinian flag to a hearing on religious liberty is disgraceful,” Jim Hanson, president of WorldStrat information warfare firm and chief editor of the Middle East Forum, posted.
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Patrick said he personally made the decision to remove her, while Prejean Boller responded on X that only the president could order her removal.
“You did not appoint me to the Commission, and you lack authority to remove me from it,” Prejean Boller wrote on X in response to Patrick. “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.”
Cruz shot back on X: “Let’s be clear: it was President Trump who fired her.”
Prejean Boller also publicly praised the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
You are affiliated with CAIR why would he want you as part of the commission? pic.twitter.com/HiRJ4NuomQ
— Bliss
(@TheDonallegedly) March 12, 2026
Prejean Boller has refused to back down and has instead launched an extraordinary public attack against the Trump administration.
In a lengthy open letter addressed to the president, she accused the commission of being controlled by what she called a “Zionist political framework” and claimed her removal violated her religious freedom.
She also alleged that the commission had been “hijacked” by foreign interests and accused Trump of betraying the MAGA movement.
Prejean Boller also declared that she would “never bend the knee to the state of Israel.”
Read her open letter below:
“I’m shocked that the removal of the only Catholic woman on the Religious Liberty Commission was handled through a brief email from a staffer rather than a direct conversation with the President who appointed me. This is the same staffer who called me back in August asking for my resignation at the behest of Zionist heretics Dan Patrick and Paula White. This is when the witch hunt against me began.
For someone who served faithfully and defended religious liberty I believe I deserved at least the basic respect of a phone call or formal letter from you. After all, you’re not bashful about firing people. I guess American citizens are treated with less dignity than a foreign leader accused of war crimes.
I will never forget the day I got the call you were appointing me to the Religious Liberty Commission. Standing in the Oval Office the day you signed the executive order establishing this commission was one of the most memorable moments of my life.
I served in this position with great humility and honor. I believed in the mission. I believed in protecting religious freedom for all Americans. I believed you cared about protecting religious freedom here in America, not forcing Americans to adopt a political ideology that serves a foreign country.
For months I spent time away from my family and countless hours preparing reports after each hearing. looked forward to meeting with you in May to present my recommendations for strengthening religious liberty in America. Instead, I now find myself fighting for my own religious freedom while serving on the very commission created to defend the religious freedom of every American.
During my time on the Commission, I stood up for Americans whose voices were not being heard. I stood with desperate mothers whose religious exemptions were denied and whose children could not attend school due to a vaccine mandate.
I spoke at school board meetings defending parental rights for families whose children should never be forced to read material that contradicts their faith. I met with nurses who lost their jobs for refusing the COVID vaccine because of their religious convictions. I stood with Navy Seals who lost their pensions simply for standing by their religious beliefs. Many pleaded with me for help.
I stayed up late at night burdened by the religious liberty violations I was witnessing with my own eyes. Many of them were discarded by our government for standing by their faith. Now it appears I am being discarded the same way.
Likewise, I wept with Americans watching a genocide unfold before their very eyes, feeling hopeless as their tax dollars were going to fund this genocide. I consoled Palestinians who have lost everything in their homeland. Their houses, land, and property stolen by foreigners claiming a right to colonize and occupy them.
I spoke to mothers whose children were starving, pleading for food and water, a desperate plea to show the world their lives are worth defending. I couldn’t stay silent, in the midst of thier suffering.
In Matthew 25:35-40 Jesus equates service to the hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, and imprisoned with service to Himself, stating that helping the vulnerable is helping Him. I am a follower of Christ, and I live my life to do the will of Him.
I spoke with students who were protesting the grave suffering of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli government in Gaza. Many of them were using their First Amendment rights to peacefully protest, only to be labeled terrorists and antisemites.
I met with Christian and Muslim Palestinians who were displaced into an open air prison in Gaza. They continue to pray for truly free Palestine someday. I pray along with them. All they want is freedom.
Antisemitism cannot be used as a shield to silence speech. This is a dangerous threat to our First Amendment rights as Americans. My faith has always been central to who I am.
You stood by me in 2009 when I lost my title as Miss California after publicly standing for my Christian beliefs. I was only 21 years old when I gave that speech with you standing next to me.
I shared in my speech something my grandfather always told me: “You’re an American, Carrie. I fought for your freedoms. Don’t ever let anyone take them away from you.” Those words I cherish onto today.
My deeply held religious beliefs define who I am and who I have always been, which is why I will now allow my religious freedom to be taken from me.
You knew exactly who I was when you appointed me. I may not have a prestigious title or a large organization behind my name, but I have conviction, heart, and an unwavering commitment to the Christian principles I stand for.
I stood on that commission stage with some of the most well-respected people in America. What I realized is that many of them are too afraid to speak out and be labeled an antisemite simply for not supporting the political state of Israel.
None of them were willing to speak up and defend my religious freedom to not support a political ideology and false theology. But the Lord knew why He put me on that stage once again, to stand for Him, even if it means standing alone.
My faith in Christ means more to me than any position or title. 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.
I stood firmly by the Catholic Church’s perennial teachings and I was punished for it. I’ll never forget when Paula White and Dan Patrick told me I was not allowed to post on social media or speak in interviews about Israel and Gaza.
He told me I had to stay off social media and my job on this commission is to protect the President. I disagree. My job on this commission is to protect religious freedom.
My tamily has served this country with honor. We are a family of Italian immigrants. My great-grandparents came to America with little but faith and determination to work for the American dream.
I am the product of those hardworking immigrants who were proud to become Americans and helped build the backbone of this nation. My grandfather fought in World War Il and earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.
My sister served two tours in Afghanistan and even missed the birth of her niece, my daughter, while she was deployed. Service to this country runs deep in my family. That is why this moment is such a betrayal.
My Catholic faith is not something I hide. It is part of who I am, and it is woven into the story of America itself. Catholics helped build this nation.
For generations Catholics faced discrimination and hostility in this country simply for their faith. In many places Catholics were barred from political office and excluded from schools because they were Catholic. Catholic churches and convents were even burned in anti-Catholic riots in cities like Philadelphia and Boston in the 1800s.
Yet Catholics stayed, worked, and built. Catholic immigrants laid railroad tracks, labored in steel mills, worked in factories and mines, and raised families rooted in faith and sacrifice.
They built churches, hospitals, schools, and charities that continue to serve Americans today. I am a product of those Catholic Italian immigrants.
My confirmation saint, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini who came to America with nothing and spent her life serving immigrants, the poor, and the forgotten. She built hospitals, schools, and orphanages because she believed every human life had dignity.
That is the Catholic faith I am proud to stand for today. Which is why it is unacceptable that a Catholic voice defending Church Tradition would be removed from a Religious Liberty Commission. Why are my first amendment rights not being upheld?
For nearly twenty years I have stood by you. I attended both of your inaugurations. I went to your rallies. I defended you publicly when it was not popular to do so. I stood by you when you were called every name imaginable.
I wore the red Make America Great Again hat proudly when it was not popular, or even safe, to do so because l believed in what you were fighting for. Now, I don’t even recognize you.
At the February hearing I was accused of “hijacking” the proceedings with my own political agenda. The truth is that a foreign political agenda hijacked what was supposed to be an American religious liberty hearing. I did exactly what commissioners are supposed to do. I asked questions.
Those questions I asked came from a real concern for defining the definition of antisemitism, as well as my Catholic religious beliefs. Also, my deep concern for the dignity of innocent human life being killed in Gaza.
Innocent Palestinians who have been starved, gunned down, bombed, limbs blown off, children orphaned, all with the support of our own government. Catholics do not believe the modern state of Israel fulfills biblical prophecy.
The Church teaches that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Covenant and that through Him the People of God are gathered into the New Covenant. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “The Church is the new People of God.”
Asking me to deny that Catholic teaching in order to satisfy a political ideology is itself a violation of my religious freedom. I have a duty to defend the religious liberty of Catholics in United States of America, and I cannot assent to a heretical theology my Church rejects. My Christian faith does not allow me to ignore human suffering.
I have a duty to speak for the lives being killed at the hands of the Israeli government, while the United States and my tax dollars are paying for it.
President Trump, I thought MAGA stood for defending Americans who speak their convictions without fear of punishment. 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.
The MAGA I knew would never allow American troops to die for a foreign government.
America’s sons and daughters are being sent to the Middle East to be sacrificed at the alter of heresy and false prophesy. Are we truly still a sovereign nation, Mr. President? or do foreign interests, and an errant singular interpretation of scripture now dictate who is allowed to have religious liberty here in America? You were supposed to be the President of peace, not the President of war.
George Washington warned against “permanent alliances” with foreign nations, urging the young U.S. to maintain neutrality and avoid becoming involved in wars.
Our founders would never grant one denomination supremacy over all the others. In fact our government prohibits that. This is un-american.
I have been unjustly removed and my religious freedom has been violated, and most Catholics who voted for you feel the exact same way. Why have you betrayed us? You have betrayed your mission to make America great again.
If being a Catholic and refusing to adopt a political and theological framework costs me my position, then religious freedom means nothing. As an American who knows my rights, dissent. I Will never surrender my rights.
Ever.It is unacceptable that a Catholic voice defending Church Tradition would be removed from a Religious Liberty Commission.
For nearly twenty years I have stood by you. I attended both of your inaugurations.I went to your rallies. I defended you publicly when it was not popular to do so. I stood by you when you were called every name imaginable.
I defended you against the Never Trumpers you surround yourself with today. I wore the red Make America Great Again hat proudly when it was not popular, or even safe, to do so because I believed in what you were fighting for.
Now, I don’t even recognize you.
At the February hearing I was accused of “hijacking” the proceedings with my own political agenda. The truth is that a political and theological agenda hijacked what was supposed to be an American religious liberty hearing.I did exactly what commissioners are supposed to do. I asked questions.
I asked for the definition of antisemitism, which I was shocked to hear the witnesses say that not supporting a political Ideology is considered hatred of Jewish people. This is obviously absurd, and something I pushed back on.
The questions came from Catholic teaching and my deep concern for the dignity of innocent human life in Gaza. Innocent Palestinians who have been starved, gunned down, bombed, limbs blown off, children orphaned, all with the support of our own government. Catholics do not believe the modern state of Israel fulfills biblical prophecy.
The Church teaches that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Covenant and that through Him the People of God are gathered into the New Covenant. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “The Church is the new People of God.”
Asking me to deny that Catholic teaching in order to satisfy a political ideology is itself a violation of my religious freedom.
Whether I serve on this Commission or not, my voice will only grow louder for those who are persecuted for their faith.
I believe this appointment was ordained by God, and I will not abandon my Catholic faith to keep a position on a commission which has abandoned its mission. If my religious freedom is not protected, then no one’s is.
We the People, must take our country back. We will never stop fighting for America.
Your religious liberty commission has been hijacked by heretics and cold-blooded ethnonationalists. To say your Presidency is a disappoint to your supporters is an understatement. We believed in you, and you have betrayed us. I am praying for our nation and for you Mr. President.
As Pope Leo XIII warned, “To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamor is raised against truth, is the part of a coward… Christ will certainly not recognize such men as His followers.” Your eternal legacy is dependent on you entering the Kingdom of heaven, and I sure hope that one day, I will see you there.
Christ is King.”
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— Carrie Prejean Boller (@CarriePrejean1) March 12, 2026
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