Carrie Prejean Keeps Her Miss California Crown

After weeks of scandal and controversy following her honest answer to a simple question at the Miss USA pageant, Carrie Prejean has emerged as she started.

“Carrie will remain Miss California,” Donald Trump said at a press conference Tuesday.

The controversial beauty queen was named first runner-up at the April 19 pageant, during which she cause a firestorm by responding to a judge's question by saying she favored limiting marriage to a man and a woman.

Since then, the state pageant has been investigating whether Prejean, 21, violated her contestant contract by making public appearances with groups opposed to same-sex marriage, and by failing to reveal that she had posed in racy photos, some of which were release just hours before the press conference.

But Trump, who owns the Miss Universe organization, praised Prejean for her “honest answer” when she was asked a “very tough question,” noting that it was the same answer that President Obama has given.

Speaking for herself at the press conference, Prejean said she found it “appalling” that a professional photographer would release compromising photos to TMZ in a violation of her trust. Prejean said the pictures were taken on a windy day where she said she was inadvertently “exposed.”

Ultimately however, Trump said that after careful review, the pictures taken of Carrie Prejean were “fine,” and that while some were indeed risque, many were in fact “quite lovely.”

Thank you Mr. Trump for showing some courage in the face of moonbattery.

UPDATE: Carrie Prejean Has been fired as Miss California.