Another one bites the dust – Who got to Joe Kent?

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more impressive and serious guy than Joe Kent. With a formidable resume, including such distinctions as former CIA parliamentary officer and Army warrant officer who served eleven combat tours, mostly in Iraq, who stands taller?  

As a great supporter of Trump, it was little wonder that he was chosen as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, working directly under Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. 

So why would he suddenly resign his post, citing the following on X, “After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center effective today.  I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.  Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

Is it me, or does that statement sound as if it was spoken from the lips of Tucker Carlson? A frequent guest on Fox News, including Tucker Carlson Tonight, Kent’s sudden epiphany could not have come from the administration where he served, because their case for Iran, being an imminent danger both to the U.S. and all of the Middle East, has been made perfectly clear.

As they have reported, both prior to the war and once it began, Iran’s rocket launchers were already set to go.  In fact, the threat of attack on California, from Iranian drones caused American officials to be on heightened alert, just a week ago. 

But attack drones were not the only menacing danger for the U.S., because when a fanatic and hateful regime controls the Straits of Hormuz, the principal waterway for all oil commerce, that is a recipe for economic disaster, not only for America, but the entire world. 

Most important of all, was the greatest fear of the same maniacal regime possessing nuclear weapons, the ultimate game changer for them. After all, when your enemy is ready to pull the plug, believing that a better life awaits him, what does he have to lose by going the nuclear route?

For Joe Kent, a seasoned military man, not to understand that the time to stop a theocratic tyrant from becoming the greatest risk to humanity is before he has the power to wreak total destruction on the planet, means only one thing. Someone got to him, and that someone was an individual who also convinced Kent that the Jewish state was behind this war.

That’s an undeniable component within his carefully crafted public resignation on X, making it clear that he no longer supports President Trump, who he believes was unduly influenced by a powerful lobby, advocating for Israel.

Who thinks like that?  Nowadays, take your pick!  It could have been Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, or even Megyn Kelly, who recently stated unequivocally that, “This is Israel’s war and no one should have to die for a foreign country.”

By her way of thinking, American troops were compelled to fight a war that should not have ever been fought, because they, in essence, could end up dying for the interests of another country.  

This is exactly what Kent is purporting. If Iran was no imminent threat to America, then the only reason the U.S. would be sending their military “guys and gals” to fight is due to American supporters of Israel, whose power is so colossal, that it trumps that of Trump’s decisions – which, by all accounts, are nearly impossible to override. 

But this is what Joe Kent has come to believe. Iran, who labeled America as the Great Satan, had no aspirations to harm or take down the Western superpower. Their fast and furious race to develop nukes was of no consequence to the U.S., and their stranglehold on the Straits of Hormuz was also not a concerning matter. 

Sounds a bit naïve for someone who spent a large chunk of his adult years in the military. It’s one thing when a political hack like California Congressman, Ro Khanna purports such nonsense on Fox News, “The Sunday Briefing,” when he was recently interviewed by Senior White House correspondent and co-anchor, Jaqui Heinrich.  

On their March 15, 2026 broadcast, Khanna was asked if it was okay to allow Iran to continue to enrich uranium, something they were never going to give up. His response was, “No, but there was no imminent threat. Now there’s a threat to the U.S.”  

When pressed what could have been done differently, Khanna stated that Iran was being monitored by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), making sure that they didn’t enrich beyond a certain percentage and that stronger sanctions could have been imposed through Oman, along with renewed negotiations.

One has to wonder about the level of naïveté it takes for someone to really believe that any of that would have deterred a determined Iran from realizing their long-held aspiration of having the deadliest of all weapons in their hands, allowing them to wield the ultimate power on every nation and people in existence.  

Khanna, infuriated by what he sees as broken promises made by Trump, who assured everyone that he would put America first and not start any new wars, now believes that he has betrayed his fellow Americans by getting them into a war that costs billions per day to fight.

Doesn’t the fact that going against everything he committed not to do, confirms that Trump, indeed, saw this as an imminent threat which could not be delayed for a later time?  Otherwise, why would he risk his political well-being, for the sake of satisfying an Israel lobby?

Khanna might have been the driving force into Joe Kent’s sudden pangs of conscience, which troubled him to the point of resigning from the prestigious post he held within the Trump administration.  

He would have had to realize that such an act, on his part, would be seen as betraying his boss’s trust by casting aspersions onto the decision of going to war. Also implicit is his insinuation that Trump can be easily manipulated.

For Kent, this is tantamount to self-sabotage, resulting in undermining his future career.  Someone got to Joe Kent, and the pity is that another one bites the dust – in the insidious belief that the Jews are behind Trump’s decision to take on the world’s bully.