“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,” he said.
Joe Kent, President Trump's director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned on Tuesday citing the Iran war and saying, "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation." Kent, who was a controversial pick to lead the agency, is the first senior official to step down over the war and the first to resign during Mr. Trump's second term.
A top counterterrorism official who twice received President Donald Trump’s endorsement in failed bids for Congress announced he was resigning in protest of the Iran war, arguing that Israel had dragged the US into the conflict.
Mr. Kent is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to quit in opposition to the conflict. He is also known for his support of conspiracy theories.
Kent has a long history of conspiratorial thinking that has twice cost him winnable congressional races.
Joe Kent, one of the Trump administration’s top intelligence officials, resigned on Tuesday over the U.S. military’s ongoing operations against Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote in his resignation letter addressed to President Trump, which he shared on social media. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our…
President Donald Trump lashed out at his former director of National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday following the official’s resignation out of protest over the U.S. war against Iran, calling him “weak” and “not smart.”Joe Kent was tapped by Trump in early 2025 to lead his administration’s key counterterrorism agency, and has long been seen as a loyal…
Joe Kent, the director of President Donald Trump‘s National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation Tuesday. Kent served 11 combat tours before joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018 and taking over the administration’s counterterrorism center last summer. He is the first high-ranking Trump administration official to leave his post…
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