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Posted on 03/17/2026 11:53:10 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that “it’s a good thing” that Joe Kent has resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center and that Kent was “very weak on security.”
Trump’s comments came during a bilateral meeting with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin in the Oval Office when a reporter asked him for his reaction to Kent’s resignation. Kent notably said that “Iran posed no imminent threat” in his letter to the president.
“I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn’t know him well,” Trump said.
“But when I read his statement, I realized that it’s a good thing that he’s out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it,” Trump added.
“And many people, many of the greatest military scholars, are saying for years that [a] president should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon,” Trump continued.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted a short time earlier that Kent’s resignation letter contained “many false claims,” chief among them being Kent’s claim that “Iran posed no imminent threat.”
“This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over,” Leavitt wrote in a post on X. “As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first.”
“This evidence was compiled from many sources and factors. President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum,” she added.
Leavitt emphasized that Iran is the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism and its regime “proudly killed Americans, waged war against our country, and openly threatened us all the way up to the launch of Operation Epic Fury.”
“Iran was aggressively expanding their short-range ballistic missiles to combine with their naval assets to give themselves immunity – meaning they would have a degree of a capabilities that would give them immunity to hold us and the rest of the world hostage,” she wrote.
“The regime aimed to use those ballistic missiles as a shield to continue achieving their ultimate goal – nuclear weapons,” she added, noting that despite negotiations with the United States, Iran refused to agree to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Another mole has come out of the ground.
No one is better than Trump at smoking them out.
He sounds like a real wimp to me. A sissy boy.
Trump put that fire out by peeing on it. Better luck next time, Beck. Now go change.
“Glenn Beck hardest hit.”
Beck was another of my many mistakes in paying attention to politics. Beck was entertaining and seemed to find useful information that wasn’t widely available. Then, Beck seemed to lose his mind, crying, whining, constantly preaching about the end is near kind of stuff.
Glenn Beck? I’ll pass.
Glenn Beck is still alive? I thought he died a long time ago.
Perhaps that skill could be better put to use in the vetting process....
Did he wet his pants on Venezuela or with Cuba situations?
It’s hard to say either was an “imminent threat.” They are useful situations.
Indeed, we are better off without Joe Kunt heading US counterintelligence.
I thank both Joe Kent and his late wife for their services, but I'm afraid Joe's judgement is off. I'm glad that he resigned.
This was posted on another thread earlier today. I have not confirmed the accuracy of Kent’s political background.
“”””Party Republican (2021–present)
Other political
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Libertarian (2012–2019)
Democratic (2019–2021)””””
Another thread indicated he was a quite a leaker of intel to media and (?).
Good riddance...he should be charged...but still good riddance.
Why do you claim Kent was a mole?
Kent quit because he had been squeezed out for being a spy. He had zero briefings on Iran:
“A senior government official has stated that Joe Kent, head of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, is widely regarded as a ‘known leaker’ and was excluded from presidential intelligence briefings months ago. Kent has not been involved in any discussions or briefings related to plans concerning Iran. This information highlights ongoing concerns within the U.S. administration regarding the handling of sensitive information.”
My first thought as well.
Bull gonads. Take a look at the man’s service record. Disagree with his conclusion about war with Iran but it certainly did not arise from him being a “sissy boy” as you put it.
Anonymous sources are bullstuff.
As I understand it, his CIA wife was killed by Muslim ISIS fighters in Syria. It was at that moment that Joe decided he hated the Jews.
smh
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