Not to detract from this thread, yet it is a juxtaposition from Erika - Erika, the beauty queen and all the rest that is now being learned. Here is Carrie Prejean (see Unz review) who was the runner up in the 2009 Miss USA. She is married to NFT football player, Kyle Boller. Carrie was also personally appointed by Trump to the White House Religious Liberty Commission as a strong Christian woman with convictions. Apparently she has known Trump for 20 years.
Recently, her stance, like Charlie's had become on Israel, is anything but friendly to the Zionist cause. Yet the commission was hijacked, which became clear to her, and the knives came out with the anti-Semitic slurs'.
Now the article is Young Turks centric, and have not paid them any attention for many years, yet its worth the look - osit.
In her own words:
Recently, her stance, like Charlie's had become on Israel, is anything but friendly to the Zionist cause. Yet the commission was hijacked, which became clear to her, and the knives came out with the anti-Semitic slurs'.
Now the article is Young Turks centric, and have not paid them any attention for many years, yet its worth the look - osit.
As Prejean told the story, six months ago some White House staffers had demanded that she stop posting her views on Gaza on social media, then tried to persuade her to resign, but she had refused. Just before the start of the recent session of the commission, the chairman and a couple of the other members had pressured her to remain silent, but she’d firmly rejected their demands.
Her subsequent public exchanges about Zionism and anti-Semitism attracted media coverage, leading to massive waves of angry attacks by prominent Zionists. The chairman of the commission was Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and he’d quickly announced that he had fired her. But Prejean explained that although he had apparently assumed that she was just “some dumb blonde bimbo” from California who would be intimidated and go quietly, she had absolutely no intention of doing so. Instead, she pointed out that she had been appointed by the president and only he had the authority to remove her, while Patrick certainly did not, a legal conclusion that she had confirmed with lawyers.
She emphasized that Trump had received the votes of 56% of American Catholics, a far higher percentage than his Protestant support, and removing the only Catholic female on his religious liberty commission would be an outrageous blow against that huge religious community. Large numbers of Catholics had rallied to her defense on social media and were lobbying the Trump Administration on her behalf. So although she was disappointed that Trump had not yet publicly supported her, she was hopeful that he would ultimately do the right thing.
In her own words: