Joe Kent
Jon Kent
Posted on 06/19/2021 3:17:21 AM PDT by blueplum
Washington state congressional candidate Joe Kent, a U.S. Army veteran and Gold Star husband, joined Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today" on Friday to sound off about the politicization of the military establishment he recognized when former President Donald Trump decided to shake up the commander-in-chief role as a political outsider.
Kent, who is seeking a primary challenge against Rep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler, R-Wash., – one of ten Republican congresspeople who voted to impeach Trump in January – said Trump didn't "pull any punches" and rankled the Pentagon by trying to "check their math" on certain things.
The Defense bureaucracy, Kent claimed, most prominently took issue with Trump's stated goal of pulling U.S. troops out of the Middle East, which the veteran said goes against the proclivity for the government to support "lucrative programs… like wars."
"There was those of us that were on the ground that have been fighting the wars, we really liked President Trump's foreign policy. Because ISIS had taken over two countries at that time, three if you count Libya. And he said, hey, I want the caliphate crushed --you all in there, crush the caliphate, and we're getting out," Kent told host Tucker Carlson.
"So he gave us the tools that we needed, the authority we needed to go in and conduct that mission. But then, he attempted to, at least, get us out."
...They did not like what Trump had said about them getting things wrong before, and then they did not like the drastic changes that Trump wanted to make," he said.
"Trump had the audacity to say, like, 'I'm going to check your math every now and again'. It's like, what? You're going to check my math? How dare you?"...
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Obunghole was 1000x worse, but it began way before either.
As a matter of fact, the fact that Pres. Trump DIDn’t fix Obunghole’s politicizing it, put us in the situation we are now. Pres. Trump did’t understand the situation because he is not a politician.
Bttt
I think Trump’s biggest flaw if you can call it that is not being fully aware of the deep state, military industrial complex or whatever you want to call it and how deeply entrenched it is and the level people will go to preserve it...
So much for the POTUS being the commander in chief, because the Generals do pretty much as they please and only follow orders if those orders agree with their mindset....
It may not be possible, but what we need in the future is a POTUS that will gut the top levels of many of our institutions...
Hundreds if not thousands of people at the Pentagon, FBI, NSA, CIA, and a whole bunch of other agencies need to be fired, we have plenty of competent people who can run those agencies but this mindset of these agencies needs to change and only a complete housecleaning can possibly do that....
Well, we saw what happened when he fired Comey. The republican run Senate told Trump that if he fired Mueller they would vote to impeach and remove him from office. I think Trump was well aware of the corruption.
“Trump’s biggest glaw was”
“Obunghole was 1000x worse”
Will you two read the article.
It is not a trump hit piece.
So happy to pile on Trump.
Joe Kent is on warroom all the time. Catch up.
More Freepers need to watch ‘War Room’...
Read later.
I am caught up I watch both daily shows of the War Room every day
In retrospect President Trump should have purged the military of every general officer promoted by the Obamanation of Desolation.
“Hundreds if not thousands of people at the Pentagon, FBI, NSA, CIA, and a whole bunch of other agencies need to be fired,”
During the post cold war drawdown, the Pentagon was supposed to eliminate over 100k civilian employees. But bubba the pants dropper axed those numbers from the active duty force to protect the government employee union slugs that vote democrat instead.
One can cut the overall size of FedGov by 75% and there would be no interruption to daily life, we’d be able to pay less in taxes, and more than likely see an improvement in government services rendered.
I agree 100%
he tried to fix it but he was robbed of the second term he needed to sweep the floor - part of why he was robbed, don’t you think?
Oh, I agree alright. I think after the first term, he saw the real world politics and that there is no such thing as “friends” in D.C.
I think he would have done much better his second term (if the election wasn’t stolen from him).
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