Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has announced his resignation. Director Kent outlines his decision as driven by opposition to the war against Iran.
Kent, a senior deputy to Director of National intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted his resignation letter on the X platform, writing: “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.”
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This is quite a remarkable development. Director Joe Kent’s full resignation letter is below, and out of an abundance of caution I prefer to await to see how President Trump and/or Tulsi Gabbard responds.
Unfortunately, one of the consequences of this very public resignation is going to be fuel upon the fire of division surrounding the issue of Israeli influence inside the Trump administration.
Ugh!
PRO TIP: Watch closely how JD Vance reacts.
September 1, 2021 – President Donald Trump previously said this:
“Joe Kent is a retired Green Beret and Gold Star husband running against RINO and incompetent Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler in the 3rd District of the State of Washington. Joe served his country proudly for many years and understands the tremendous cost of America’s wars in the Middle East, and elsewhere. In Congress, Joe will be a warrior for the America First agenda, unlike Jaime Herrera Beutler who voted, despite the facts, against the Republican Party and for the Democrats’ Impeachment Scam.”
“Joe Kent is strong on Crime and the Border, loves our Military and our Vets, and will protect our Second Amendment, which is under siege. I met Joe at Dover Air Force Base on the evening that his wife was being brought back from the Middle East, where she had been killed in combat. It was a very sad moment in Joe’s life, but I was incredibly impressed with him and told him that he should someday run for office—we need his voice and leadership in Washington, D.C. Now he is running, and Joe Kent has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”
I hope that what is in this article is not remotely true:
https://diedsuddenlynews.substack.com/p/exclusive-from-military-source-why?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2896549&post_id=191304506&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=15f2oj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
It is obvious BS. Why do you push it?
Because I believe people here are intelligent and discerning enough to judge for themselves.
And it’s BS; go back to X.
Pretty thin-skinned, aren’t you?
Not thin skinned…but as you said, discerning. No reason to get upset that your claim is proven.
The article clearly is fear mongering and those who push it are likelyeither naive or driven by sinister intent .
>>>The article clearly is fear mongering and those who push it are likely either naive or driven by sinister intent.<<<
I read the article, and you may be correct, you may be incorrect, or you may be partially correct. At this point I’m not drawing any conclusions, just thinking about it and waiting for more information.
It all seems very plausible. Pray.
lol!! Perhaps Trump took out all the trained Iranian propagandists and now they have to resort to writing this moronic drivel from the basements of the Somali Learing Centers.
It isn’t true. It’s completely false.
What about this article, also, posted at the site you mentioned above?? Did you miss it?
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Breaking Report: Joe Kent Was Leaker Who Had Been Cut from President’s Intel Briefings for Months
Soo, it was NOT his moral standing that did Joe Kent in!
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-report-joe-kent-leaker-cut-presidents-intel-briefings-months/?ff_source=email&ff_medium=breaking-special-reengagement&ff_campaign=news-alert&ff_content=2025-09-27
Apparently not…
Also booked on Tucker Carson’s show.
How long have these two events been in the works?
His letter is curiously timed I’d venture…
Kent’s current wife works for Max Blumenthal and his outfit. I have noticed a shift in Kent’s thinking over the last year. People I never would have thought. I do not like it. I wonder if these people are drinking heavily like Tucker.
Attempting to fracture the MAGA party. Kent is said to blame Israel for his wife Shannon’s death. I’ve no idea the background there though I’m aware of who she was and how she died.
Who is paying them?
I have a feeling this will come out.
or more importantly……. who owns them?
Best to wait until you hear from Joe himself. I am concerned about our weapons supply. There has been much reporting that it has been depleted by Ukraine.
The government has been lying to people for many decades. This administration is no different.
Sorry to those who believe everything Trump says but you have to get your heads out of the clouds. He will lie to you too.
The truth will come out and at 3 million dollars a missile I can believe we are running low.
Unfortunately, DT is most likely being lied to and manipulated as well. I truly believe he believes in most of what it is he says. Everyone has exploitable vulnerabilities – even those with notable characteristics such as exceptionally high ego, lust for power and obsession with financial wealth.
I found that article a little to off the wall to believe it.
>>>I found that article a little to off the wall to believe it.<<<
I know what you’re saying, and you may be correct, but my eyes have been opened since 2016, and at this point I’m not able to say the claims made are false.
Also bear in mind that the most effective lies are those that contain at least some truth – could be this is overall just a lie, but with truth nuggets.
Well I pray this is not true, however the facts are that our “enlightened” betters in Congress have put us in this possible position.
For years while members of both parties waved Ukraine flags and proudly showed their Ukraine flags pins on the floor of the Capitol, they gave millions of our tax dollars and weapons to the money laundering crook Zelensky!
We could depleted our weapons on this incompetent idiot in Ukraine while the rest of the EU joined in pushing it.
After NATIs response to our request for help I hope we never send another dime or weapon over there. I hope we focus on this country and it’s security in the future.
I pray for this nation and the safety of our troops In harms way.
I just read this relatively short piece – thanks for posting it, I like hearing different perspectives.
If these claims are all true it’s alarming, but I’m not drawing any conclusions at this point.
Not a typical resignation, but an actual attack on the administration. Which office is Kent going to run for soon?
Contributor to CNN or MS Now.
Taylor-Green/Kent 2028
😂
He already ran for Congress in Washington state and lost. I contributed to his campaign ☹️
Algorithmically Fake Boosted Podcaster.
Well, I guess if he was still in the service, he would have resigned in protest with full support of Slotkin and crew.
Just so everybody knows, Israel forced me to make the above statement. /s
The word is out. Fake MAGA podcasters are beginning to say “get rid of Tulsi”. One in particular, allegedly close to the WH. Well, he thinks so, anyway. Total op from the get-go. Talk about hating the media, I hate the podcaster grift industry more.
I would happily hang each and everyone of them and use my own rope so no burden on us taxpaying Americans.
Operation Mockingbird has been VERY successful in destroying this country, just like Russia, just like Germany, just like <fill in the blank<.
If Tulsi left, we wouldn’t have anyone we can trust in DC.
Except for President Trump.
LOL
Good catch!
“Unfortunately, one of the consequences of this very public resignation is going to be fuel upon the fire of division surrounding the issue of Israeli influence inside the Trump administration.” Seriously? And from what planet did we all fly in from today? This ain’t getting any better folks. Kiss November 3rd goodbye.
I’m just going to say goodbye to you MARTHA! No kisses, just a good swift kick in the ass off a branch. Sorry but you have taken my wrath of dozens of naysayers who would hide behind their mommies if the USofA were ever invaded by a valid army.
Stay home on 11/3. We don’t need your kind.
Will do.
November is a life time away in politics, ESPECIALLY considering the attention span of voters, which is about 12 hours. Or half a news cycle. But doom away if it makes you feel better.
It’s as if you think we can’t discern you fools from non-operatives. You idiots all sound the same. Get over it.
But you gotta give ’em all a break – because they all say they HOPE THEY’RE WRONG.
😆
I hope you are right.
If he didn’t have George McGovern sideburns he would be more believable.
Who got to him? Our Faith is based upon Old Testament history. Who got to him, Candace, Tucker or John Yep?
his new wife who constantly trashes Trump and the administration daily. Also she posted classified documents that he had access to so there is the matter of him leaking also to content with.
Do you have a source you are referring to that new wife posted classified information because I would love to read it.
If he did give his wife access to classified documents, and the new wife did not have a clearance to access them, he will lose HIS clearance, and he won’t be good for anything except a prime time spot on some news network that might get a clearance to interview him from a prison cell in Leavenworth.
What a novel way to Cover his *ss. Resigning before he gets fired.
He got caught. He allegedly gave classified information to Tucker, (of all people!) And then Tucker gave it to the Iranians.
Now it makes sense why all last week Tucker was getting his panties in a twist and crying about how the CIA was spying on him.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t flush out that Kent was part of the campaign to get rid of Tulsi.
Bot Aert!
I’ll just leave this right here. p.s. Never go full retard.
Allegedly. That is such a lame way to spread unconfirmed rumors.
Access to classified info requires two things, not one. Not only does it require the proper clearance, more importantly, it requires a need to know.
Nice of him to say Iran does not pose any threat so we would all know how massively incompetent he is.
Now there’s no need to wonder if he had any other observations worthy of consideration.
Death to America for 47 years = not a threat to someone paid to say it. These people are insufferable.
In 2024 he said Iran has been trying to killed Trump since he took out solimeni. Kent supposedly leaked classified docs which his new wife posted. He had been stripped of all clearances months ago so he really does not know what is happening or why. Sad really he was a good man until he remarried.
Thank you. Good to know he lost his clearances already.
Joe Kent, Able to leap his own shoelaces in a single bound!
Clark Kent’s dumber brother
Dan Ball, on OANN, just reported that Kent was a known “leaker” and had been cut out of the President’s Daily Briefings months ago. Good riddance, Judas 2.0.
This will not end well for JK.
So many opinions here! Whew.
My main reaction when he first announced his candidacy for Congress in the fraught-with-trouble State of Oregon was full of hope. Now we are back to feet of clay.
Trump probably is saying this today: “Now that he is resigning, Joe Kent has my total and complete unendorsement.” Politics, politics. What a crazy game.
If he can’t stand the heat, there’s no way he should stay in the kitchen.
As someone once suggested…
I can’t help but wonder how much, and what all the uniparty offered him by way of potential positions in the next DEM administration et al…smh
By the way, Vance is the GOP’s Obama, a total project backed by Thiel and the people behind Palantir Technologies.
Fake persona, fake everything.
Many parallels to Vance and Obama – two sides of a coin mined and minted by the deep state.
I find his demeanor as clownish. I don’t expect him to do anything about the fraud issue other than letting others do the work. I think Trump is testing him before endorsing.
Joe Kent and MTG were part of Bannon’s regulars while they were running for office. He pushed the posse hard to vote for them. Several of Bannon’s guest have turned. Fortunately there are others that are part of the dream team and doing a great job.
This is video footage of Joe Kent on Tucker Carlson’s show in January 2024 — the same Joe Kent who resigned today as NCTC Director — laying out exactly what he predicted a war with Iran would look like.
Tucker called it “the most reasonable, common sense, factual assessment I’ve seen from anyone.”
Let’s check the PREDICTIONS against REALITY.
𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱:
𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘺.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 13 American service members have been killed — a tragedy, and every one matters. But “very bloody” predicted a catastrophic casualty toll. Operation Epic Fury is Day 18 with 6,000 combat flights flown, Iran’s nuclear program buried, navy destroyed, and top leadership eliminated.
𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱:
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Iranians danced in the streets when Khamenei was killed. They celebrated Larijani’s death today. The regime had to shut down the internet and deploy security forces to stop Iranians from rising up. One doctor called it “the best night of our lives.”
𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱:
𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Iran’s proxy network — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis — was already largely dismantled before the war began. The IRGC infrastructure that funded and directed them has been systematically destroyed over 18 days.
𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱:
𝘞𝘦’𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢’𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: China is now being asked to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway carrying their own oil — and being told that failing to do so will affect the Trump-Xi summit. The leverage is reversed.
𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱:
𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘢’𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘹. 𝘈𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Trump says it will be wrapped up soon. The Iranian people are celebrating in the streets. The regime’s nuclear program is buried under rubble.
This is the man Tucker called the most reasonable analyst he’d ever heard on Iran. This is the man who just resigned as America’s counterterrorism director saying Iran posed no threat.
𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
Credit: M.A. Rothman
That a good point-by-point refutation.
That’s all fine and dandy…so far. This war is far from over. Keep praying…
Yes, keep praying. It’s going as well as it could. Far better than probably expected. We don’t know that it’s far from over. It’s probably closer than you think.
Thank you.
Love our President.
I’ve always been suspicious of Kent.
He lost what had been a Republican seat in Washington state.
Traitor. Don’t let the exit door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
Recalls the adage, “You can have your own opinions, but not your own facts.”
My guess is that JK like AJ and Candance and M. Kelly TOOK the money.
No evidence of that other than their strange actions in unison.
Alex Jones panders to his core audience. And his core audience does not like Israel.
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TRUTH SOCIAL
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116247522086271962
Looks like another traitor. I just wonder if he was a Deep State plant in the first place or became a traitor later. I’m tired of all the so-called conservatives/MAGA supporters (Tucker, Megyn Kelly, etc.). I know the vast majority of MAGA supporters will keep supporting Trump because we know he has our best interests in mind and has to balance many interests.
I think they have found the leaker. I am hearing he was forced to resign for leaking intel, probably leaking it to the press for a sweet heart deal at CNN
Don’t say I didn’t warn you guys…
Does Joe Kent’s new wife’s name happen to be Fang Fang? Can’t help thinking Joe is now hitched to a spy and is trying to “save” his marriage by resigning.
Myself, I recognized from an article about pets, the I have a case of “Prolonged Grieving Syndrome..” This syndrome has served me well in ways I care not to enumerate,
Should one sell their soul, marriage arrangements are simply part of the terms and conditions.
Resign? He lost his clearances so he can’t do anything but collect a paycheck. Maybe Trump felt sorry for him and gave him the option to resign – or maybe it was just easier not to fire.
He leaked and he did a 180. It doesn’t matter why he turned. He!s done. Like Bolton. Like Kelly, Like Mattis. You can’t put the mask back on once everyone has seen what’s underneath.
The whole Tucker Candace. Bannon, Kent MTG thing is so seedy now. It so obvious. Almost clownish now.
I have to wonder if what it is that we are actually seeing unfold is the loss of CIA funding from illegitimate sources that they may have derived it from. The USAID/NGO nexus, human and drug trafficking, etc. that funds what they should NOT have been doing.
Maybe as it dried up, they felt it was both logical and okay to accept it from other “less acceptable” sources, believing in the rightness of their cause.
going back to 1988 Trump was talking about taking out Iran. Was he pressured to do that by Israel?
Thomas Sowell presented a slew of articles now over 30 years ago warning against Iran.
Thomas Sowell is not influenced by anything but reality based on deep research and observation from which he delivers substantive proof.
Carter allowed for 1979 Taliban coup.
Iran has been relentless calling for death to Israel, the U.S. and Christianity.
So in answer, no Israel did not pressure him.
Thank you for reminding us of Thomas Sowell. He is brilliant and unbiased.
Well i wont wait for anyone elses opinion. Joe Kent is a snake with a 500 dollar haircut. I have quit in discust more then once in my life but i never felt the need to do a sucker punch to the people i was supposedly quitting for.
So mr secret squirel say the Mullahs are secretly good guys that just happened to have lots of enriched urainium under a mountain.
These harmless.mullahs having been thwarted at making a nuke would never threaten neighboring countries or our bases by delivering by missle or droan or 67 chevy a bunch of finely ground yellow cake.
This guys as honest and bright as cnns best F him. I think hes a deepstate douch that decided to do a limited hang out. Yeah i am undermining my president but its about my integrity don’t you know
As History shows Thomas Sowell was disgusted by the nation’s swamp currying favor with Islam and allowing Iran’s surge.
For more than 20 years he wrote on this, but here is one from during the Obama WH occupation
https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/03/12/iran-and-obama
Excellent. Thank you.
Thomas Sowell in an article ripping Obama for his inaction against Iran, in March 2012:
“Churchill warned, “Do not let us take the course of allowing events to drift along until it is too late.” But that is what expediency-minded politicians are always tempted to do.”
Three months ago he said:
https://x.com/i/status/2034095632516882711
Some are saying he got caught leaking and is actually be forced to resign.
Kent is a brother veteran, so I have to believe some force got to him while in Sodom on Potomac. The city is vile.
I remember guard rails put up to deflect criticisms of war hero and POW John McCain. He betrayed voters, threw the 2008 race to Hussein Obama, and cast the deciding vote which sealed the fate, health and lives of hundreds of millions of good people under Obamacare.
And, TX Congressman Dan Crenshaw is a Vet and was just PRIMARIED (yay!!!), eyepatch and all.
I just read a statement on DuckDuckGo that Dan is the toughest RINO in Congress. 😂
Ok Joe quits because of personal integrity. Oh wait running for congress. Israel may be the culprit but that’s not why he quit.
all of this stinks something is wrong…..
Even Mitch McConnell got in on this
@SenMcConnell
Joe Kent testified before the Senate one year ago that Iran and its terror proxies threatened U.S. servicemembers in the Middle East. He said it would be an honor to return to the fight against terrorism, and he pledged to lead with integrity and accountability. The virulent anti-Semitism of his resignation letter makes it clear that Mr. Kent is incapable of upholding these pledges, and those who mistake its baseless and incendiary conspiracies for brave truth-telling are only fooling themselves. Isolationists and anti-Semites have no place in either party, and certainly do not deserve places of trust in our government.
2:54 PM · Mar 17, 2026
https://x.com/SenMcConnell/status/2034010590394650772
The one source I have confidence in to tell the truth sits in the Oval Office at this time.
1/ I voted for Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler [3rd District, WA] until Joe Kent came along.
2/ Then I voted for Joe Kent in a primary; Kent won that primary, only to lose to democrat Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez.
3/ Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez is “bipartisan” when it doesn’t matter and only so she can claim to be “bipartisan” — otherwise she is 100% “antifa babe.”
4/ We were better off with RINO Jaime Herrera Beutler; Beutler would have been better than Perez — that’s a fact.
5/ On the other hand, Kent may have been another victim of WA State mail-in voter fraud; our county elections clerk is a RINO supported by the democrats, the RINO establishment, and other left-wing groups.
I want to know what Joe’s new wife’s politics are. Haven’t heard a thing.