President Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday railed against Joe Kent after he resigned from his post as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
“I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn’t know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy,” Trump told reporters in the Oval on Tuesday.
He later added that, “it’s a good thing he’s out, because he said that Iran was not a threat.”
“Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it” Trump continued.
Kent alleged that Israel influenced the U.S. decision to strike Iran in his resignation letter, echoing rhetoric from Tucker Carlson and a few other conservatives who have railed against the war on Tehran.
“This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again,” Kent wrote in his letter to the president.
“As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next...
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