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A product of the online right, Joe Kent returned to the podcast circuit after resigning as President Trump’s top counter terrorism official over objections to the Iran war.

Kent posted his resignation on government letterhead Monday. Less than 48 hours later, he was sitting in Maine for an in-person interview with Tucker Carlson, the conservative commentator who is close to the president and a staunch anti-interventionist.

The most prominent defector from the administration since the conflict began, Kent is now counterprogramming the war effort in real time. “The task at hand,” he said, “is stopping us from getting deeper into this quagmire.”

The administration had already moved to discredit Kent and minimize the role he played in the administration. Trump told reporters Tuesday that his departure was “a good thing” because he did not believe that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later said that claims the former official made on his way out the door were at once “laughable” and “insulting.”

Kent repeated and defended many of them during a nearly two-hour interview with Carlson.

“The Israelis drove the decision to take this action which we knew would set off a series of events, meaning the Iranians would retaliate,” he said, repeating an allegation that the president has previously denied. He also argued that the Israelis had successfully “shifted the red line” from preventing the development of nuclear weapons to stopping the enrichment of uranium entirely. He told Carlson that he had seen no intelligence during his time as director of the National Counterterrorism Center that Iran posed an “imminent threat.”

The interview complicates administration efforts to maintain the Trump coalition and corral public support for the still-new conflict as consequences from that war begin to be felt stateside. Thirteen US servicemembers have died in........

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