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Posted on 03/17/2026 12:01:45 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Donald Trump’s opposition in the media and political class are celebrating Joe Kent’s resignation as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center over the war in Iran.
Kent announced his resignation in a post on X on Tuesday morning, saying he “cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran” and claiming that pressure from Israel started the war.
Never Trumper Tim Miller, who was Jeb Bush’s communications director in 2016 and hosts the Bulwark Podcast, praised Kent for resigning in the middle of the war.
“Have talked a lot of shit about Joe Kent over the years (deserved) and can’t speak to all of his motivations here but I gotta say its pretty refreshing to see that someone in the administration has a red line on something,” he wrote.
Bill Kristol, another Never Trumper who sought to recruit David French, another Never Trumper, to run against the president in 2016, wondered if others purportedly in the MAGA coalition would follow suit.
“Interesting. How many other ambitious MAGA pols are seeing a path forward in opposing the war?” Kristol wrote.
Andrew Egger, the White House correspondent for the Bulwark, called Kent “groyper-adjacent.”
“Most groyper-adjacent member of the administration jumps ship over Iran war,” Egger wrote.
Sam Stein, the managing editor of the Bulwark, seemed to celebrate the resignation as well.
ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl was giddy to see Kent resign.
“Something we have rarely seen during the Trump era: a senior official resigning in protest — in this case, resigning to protest the war against Iran,” he wrote.
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“Good riddance. Iran has murdered more than a thousand Americans. Their EFP land mines were the deadliest in Iraq. Anti-Semitism is an evil I detest, and we surely don’t want it in our government,” he wrote.
What does the National Counterterrorism Center do to justify its existence? Terrorism has been running rampant across America since the 90s. The CIA is more worthless than the UN and NATO put together.
Funny—Trump is also celebrating his resignation.
Trump sure has made a lot of friends among these non-MAGA Republicans in Congress.
If all President Trump’s Political Opposition has to Celebrate is this that’s sad.
All he did was out himself....which is a good thing for us.
Yeah, this changes everything...
/sarc.
Joe Kent didn’t resign over the Iran War.
Joe Kent has been excluded from Presidential briefings for months because he was “known leaker” — a spy. He received exactly zero briefings regarding Iran.
He quit because he was eventually going to get fired.
Hey Emily Litella:
DoW=Department of War.
Joe Kent went Nick Fuentes/Tucker level crazy with Jew hate when his wife was killed in Syria by ISIS in 2019 I think.
Kent blamed it on a “war created by Jews.”
Its amazing to me how Bill Kristol, arch neocon, who pushed for MIC sponsored war everywhere - is now against Trump’s power-play in the Gulf - simply because ITS DONALD TRUMP
Every time the media and the TDS crowd do their little “victory dance” over a supposed Trump-loss something happens
right around the corner to slap them silly and wipe that stupid smile off their faces.
A truly sad existence living for these brief moments
What Joe doesn’t explain is why Hitler (aka Trump) was doing the bidding of the Joos. Or as Hillary Gollum Clinton called them, those effing Joos.
It’s probably because the Swamp isn’t due to profit from ending the endless.
It’s incredible that Trump kept Kent on this long, given that his new wife writes for the leftist pro-Iran propaganda outlet “Gray Zone news”, run by Sidney Blumenthal’s vile son Max.
DoW is Department of War (formerly known as the DOD/DoD, Department of Defense).
Why do you think Hegseth should have nothing to do with it? He is in charge of it. Trump appointed him as Secretary of Defense before the name change, and he is now Secretary of War.
What’s your beef with Pete Hegseth...esp since he correctly called out the Boy Scouts and their woke/homosexual culture.
Is Kent the three time loser from SW WA?
Iran has been threatening U.S. nonstop since they seized our embassy staff in 1979. That alone was an act of war. How many times did the Ayatollah threaten to annihilate us and the Israelis since 1979? Are we absolutely required not to believe they’re serious? Would the prudent course of action be to wait until they can drop nukes on us?
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