Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says President Trump acted on “strong and compelling evidence” before launching Operation Epic Fury
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) — The White House on Tuesday pushed back strongly against claims that Joe Kent made in his resignation letter, after the outgoing National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) director said he could not support the ongoing U.S. war with Iran and argued the country posed no imminent threat to the United States.
In a post on X responding to Kent’s letter, Karoline Leavitt, Assistant to the President and the 36th White House Press Secretary, dismissed the claim as false and defended the decision by Donald Trump to authorize military action.
“There are many false claims in this letter, but let me address one specifically: that ‘Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,’” Leavitt wrote. “This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.”
Leavitt said Trump had “strong and compelling evidence” indicating Iran was preparing to attack the United States first. According to her statement, the intelligence assessment was compiled from multiple sources and strategic indicators, adding that the president would never deploy military assets against a foreign adversary without a substantial evidentiary basis.
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