In his interview with Tucker Carlson on the day after he published his resignation letter, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent was asked by Carlson, “What kind of pressure does it require to get a President who campaigned against exactly this thing for 10 years to do exactly this thing? What does it take to do that?”
Kent replied: “I wish I knew definitively. I think there’s two schools of thought. I mean, one is the media echo chamber, the donors, the way the Israelis come in and kind of launder the information, like I described previously, and then the other option is much darker. I mean, we still don’t know what happened in Butler. We don’t know what happened with Charlie Kirk—and by no means am I saying, you know, these Israelis did this or any of that, but I’m saying there’s a lot of unanswered questions there, and there is enough data to at least say there’s a good chance that President Trump feels like he is under threat.”
Kent went on to reveal that the FBI has prevented the Counterterrorism Center from participating in the investigation of what happened to Charlie Kirk or from investigating security lapses and breaches when Trump was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania.
