Trump's CounterTerrorism Chief Resigns, Calls Iran War a Lie

Trump's own counter-terrorism director just resigned and said that the Iran war is based on a lie. Joe Kent ran the National Counterterrorism Center. He's a Green Beret with 11 combat tours, a Gold Star husband, and a Trump ride or die who got confirmed on a party line vote.

And he just said that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and that Israel pressured us into this war using the same playbook that got us into Iraq. Saying specifically, or due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. And then where it gets spicy is you had Speaker Mike Johnson contradicting that, saying that Kent is wrong

and that there was clearly an imminent threat based on classified briefings. So Democrats who were in those same exact briefings say, that's just not true. And so the American public once again has to ask who's lying.

And as far as Trump's response, he said, I always thought he was a nice guy, on security. It's a good thing that he's out. A lot of MAGA has chosen really not to address what Ken has said, and instead of just called him kind of a crazed egomaniac who was gonna get fired anyway. Because Ken's been clashing with other top officials over conspiracy theories, like when he tried to get access to FBI databases

to see whether there was foreign involvement in Charlie Kirk's assassination. in Charlie Kirk's assassination. For now, with 13 American soldiers dead,