Trump’s New MAGA Enemy Says Followers ‘Didn’t Have the Full Story’ on Iran
The Daily Beast • • nation
Key Points:
- Joe Kent, former National Counterterrorism Center director under Trump, resigned in protest of the U.S. war with Iran, claiming the American public was misled and the country had no vital interest in the conflict.
- Kent accused Israel and the American media of fabricating a narrative that pressured the White House into striking Iran, and criticized the war’s human cost, including the death of his first wife in Syria.
- The Trump administration dismissed Kent’s claims as false and self-serving, defending the military actions as necessary to counter an imminent Iranian threat, while the FBI is investigating Kent for allegedly leaking classified information.
- Since leaving the government, Kent has allied with right-wing critic Tucker Carlson to argue that Iran was not close to developing nuclear weapons when
