Mom, the white supremacists are fighting again! This week’s MAGA temper tantrum began with the abrupt resignation of Joe Kent—a former Green Beret, CIA officer, two-time failed Congressional candidate and FoNF (Friend of Nick Fuentes)—from his position as head of the National Counterterrorism Center.

Kent was already a controversial pick for the job. Critics have pointed to his association with Patriot Proud Boy Graham Jorgensen, his appearance on a Nazi-adjacent podcast, and his stated admiration for the self-described white nationalist writer Sam Francis. Kent has also complained that American culture has become “anti-white” and “anti-straight-white-male.”

So, naturally, he was put in charge of counterterrorism, reporting to Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

In his resignation letter, Kent blamed Israel and its “powerful American lobby” for dragging the United States into the current war with Iran. According to Kent, “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media” had tricked Donald Trump into betraying his America First platform.

Kent then went further, blaming Israel not only for America’s invasion of Iraq but even for the suicide bombing in Syria that killed his wife. In other words, the Jews did it.

Here, then, we’re finally exposing the live wire of antisemitism that has been crackling beneath the MAGA project since its........

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