Trump Says His Head Of Counter-Terrorism Was ‘Weak’ After He Opposes Iran War

The president also claims he really didn’t know Joe Kent, despite having repeatedly praised him and given him a top job in his administration.

Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost

Hours after his head of counter-terrorism quit saying he couldn’t support the war against Iran, President Donald Trump claimed he didn’t really know him that well but that he had “always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.”

“I always thought he was a nice guy,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday, not long after Joe Kent had announced he had stepped down from running the National Counter-terrorism Centre. “I didn’t know him well.”

That sentiment is at odds with his past praise of the conspiracy theorist who rose in Trump’s estimation for his embrace of the false claim that the 2020 election had been stolen and that the FBI had fomented the January 6, 2021, violent attack on the Capitol.

In fact, Trump’s endless lying about a stolen election enraged his followers, and he himself asked them to converge on Washington DC, on the day of the congressional........

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