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Joe Kent

Joe Kent is a U.S. Republican politician, former Army officer, and former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Known for his America First, anti-interventionist stance and criticism of U.S. foreign policy alignment with Israel. Recently, Kent resigned as NCTC Director, publicly opposed U.S. military action against Iran, and came under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information. Last updated 2 days ago

Joe Kent

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President Trump: “Who's dumber, Tucker Carlson or Joe Kent? It's very interesting! ! met Joe Kent at Dover Air Force Base, along with numerous others who had lost their loved ones in War. I said hello to all of the families. Kent, horribly,...

President Trump: “Who's dumber, Tucker Carlson or Joe Kent? It's very interesting! ! met Joe Kent at Dover Air Force Base, along with numerous others who had lost their loved ones in War. I said hello to all of the families. Kent, horribly, lost his wife. Her casket was being brought to Dover, along with the rest, although he married again, quite quickly, in my opinion. In any event, a number of years later, I noticed the same person was running for Congress in Washington State, and lost. I then noticed a couple of years later, he was running again, and lost. While I didn't know him other than our brief Dover encounter, but feeling sorry for him after the two Election losses, I told my people, "Hire him for the White House.
Give him a job, make him feel good, he lost his wife and two Elections." They did so and, while I rarely saw him, I certainly didn't expect disloyalty, but that's what I got. He was really a SLEAZEBAG, and some would say, on top of it all, A LEAKER!! don't know whether or not that was true, but next time, NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! Kent is a LOSER, just like Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and the rest of them are LOSERS — You're born that way, LOW IQ, and there's not a damn thing they're going to be able to do about it! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

Middle East

Joe Kent on Israel and Middle East:

“I think Israel would be able to defend itself. I think it could conduct limited strikes on its borders. I think it could continue carrying out pretty impressive targeted assassinations against its adver...

Joe Kent on Israel and Middle East:

“I think Israel would be able to defend itself. I think it could conduct limited strikes on its borders. I think it could continue carrying out pretty impressive targeted assassinations against its adversaries.

What it couldn't do is go topple entire governments. It couldn't do something like the Iran War, the Iraq War. It couldn't aggressively destabilize Syria. These big heavy lifts of regime change that America has been engaged in, Israel could not do on their own.

Which is why you get back to the Israeli lobby being just so potent and so powerful and so aggressive.”

Middle East

Tucker Carlson: “Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon?”

Joe Kent: “No, they weren’t. Not in June either. The Iranians have had a religious ruling, a fatwa, against developing a nuclear weapon since 2004. That’s public knowledg...

Tucker Carlson: “Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon?”

Joe Kent: “No, they weren’t. Not in June either. The Iranians have had a religious ruling, a fatwa, against developing a nuclear weapon since 2004. That’s public knowledge, and we had no intelligence suggesting it was being ignored or about to be lifted.

The Iranians know the stakes in their region. Their strategy has been to maintain their nuclear program just enough, seeing what happened to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya when he gave up his nukes.”

Politics

Speaker Johnson on disgraced NCTC Director Joe Kent

“I'm not sure what Joe Kent is reading but it is not the same intel I’m seeing. We had briefings and the intel was exquisite. This was an imminent threat!”

“Joe Kent seemed to understand that until about 24 hours ago. I’m not sure what happened. But he is an outlier!”

“Everyone in the administration and everyone who sees the actual intelligence understands clearly that the president did what he had to do.”