Following Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Joe Kent’s [bombshell resignation]() on Tuesday morning over the illegitimacy of the Iran war, the hysterical reactions from all quarters revealed just how defensive and desperate the war faction has become.
Though Kent’s action is the first such resignation of an administration official, his departure certainly resonates with the growing opposition to the illegal war, both from within the United States and around the world.
Trump, who has just been confronted in a press conference on Monday with his advisor David Sacks’ warning that if the war continues, Israel may decide to use a nuclear weapon (“Israel would never do that,” Trump answered, and quickly moved on), was asked Tuesday about the Kent resignation. “When I read his statement I realized, it’s a good thing that he’s out, because he said ‘Iran is not a threat’?!” Trump stammered. “Every country realized what a threat Iran was, the question was whether or not they wanted to do something about it…. So, when somebody is working with us that says they didn’t think Iran was a threat, we don’t want those people.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted an excessively long missive on X attacking Kent’s statement and defending the idea that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States—a claim of which proof has yet to be presented. Congressmen from both sides of the aisle tripped over themselves in their rush to denounce Kent, with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson insisting, “I don’t know where Joe Kent is getting his information, but he wasn’t in those briefings clearly...they had exquisite intelligence that we understood this was a serious moment for us,” and Democrat Josh Gottheimer, whose campaign has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from AIPAC, accusing Kent of being an antisemite.
