The scandal plaguing a Donald Trump-established religious watchdog has deepened after a second member quit in protest and a top Republican demanded an investigation into the ousting of a former Miss California. 

Sameerah Munshi quit the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Commission on Friday after Carrie Prejean Boller, a longtime Trump associate, was fired over her views on Israel.

Munshi, the advisory board’s only Muslim woman, said Prejean Boller’s firing was an ‘affront to free expression and religious liberty’ which the commission had been created to protect. ‘If we are not free in America to abide by our religious beliefs … then in what country are we free to do so?’ Munshi asked in her resignation letter. 

Prejean Boller, a Catholic, was forced out after being accused of ‘hijacking’ a hearing last month when she questioned Jewish witnesses about whether criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza was the same as anti-Semitism. 

She told the Daily Mail she was the victim of a ‘witch hunt’ by Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White, who serves on the commission and had plotted against her for months, demanding she stop posting about Israel and Gaza on social media. 

Prejean Boller said the evangelical pastor, a supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted to ‘paint me as a hateful, anti-Semite bigot’ because ‘they need us to go to war with the Muslims.’

She further accused White of being an ‘Israeli spy’ who was working on behalf of Netanyahu’s government to push Trump into the Iran war. ‘My firing was the prelude to the war. They needed to remove any anti-Zionist who promotes peace,’ she said. 

Republican Representative Thomas Massie, who is staunchly anti-Trump, sent a letter to the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees on Friday demanding an investigation into her ousting. 

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