Why the resignation of Joe Kent is a big deal

Expect a smear campaign to commence against decorated combat veteran who says Trump makes decisions within 'echo chamber' whose loyalties are to Israel first, and America second.

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President Trump’s director of the National Counter Terrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned Tuesday over disagreements regarding the war in Iran, becoming the first senior Trump administration official to jump ship over a military operation that appears to have gone off the rails and is going to last much longer than planned.

Kent is a highly decorated veteran and fierce advocate of the America-first agenda. His wife, Shannon, also a member of the U.S. military, was killed in Syria in 2019 “in a war manufactured by Israel,” he wrote in his resignation letter.

So this is a man who knows all too well the costs of waging a war under false pretenses, claiming it’s for one reason when it’s clearly tied to another. The former Green Beret and Army Ran…