National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent says Trump “started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby”.
The Trump administration’s top official on counterterrorism has resigned from his position, citing opposition to the war in Iran, and urged the president to “reverse course”.
In a letter posted on Tuesday to his X account, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said that Iran posed “no imminent threat” to the US and claimed that the Trump administration “started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby”.
Kent, 45, is a US special forces and CIA veteran whose wife, navy cryptologic technician Shannon Kent, was killed in a suicide bombing in Syria in 2019.
He could counter my terrorism any day 🥵
This took courage and we should celebrate this. I can already see people pointing fingers at him; that is worth doing eventually, but this is not the time for that.
Let’s recognize good behavior and make sure we encourage more people to do the same.
It’s good that a “true believer” stepped down and I’m all for it. His reason for doing so isn’t super noble though. MAGA Classic isn’t a whole lot better than New MAGA. They really just have different awful priorities. And both parties in a ‘wrong kind of asshole’ fight are still assholes.
I think this says more about how universal opposition to the war is than anything particularly good about Kent.
A rightrous politician? No, it can’t be. What’s the catch?
The catch: He is a white supremacist with ties to Nick Fuentes and his motivations may rather be rooted in hatred for Israel and him disapproving of Trump fighting a war at Netanyahu’s behest.
He’s a white supremacist with ties to Nick fuentes
That’s horrible!
may be rooted in a hatred for Israel and disapproval over Trump fighting a war at Nets behest
Ok, now I’m getting mixed signals.
Do you have proof of that because I’ve found info that disputes a relationship between them?
He’s not a politician. He’s a career spook.
You can read the whole resignation letter here. You’ll find the catch in there!
