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Fraud? Why Did Joe Kent Just Quit Over Iran Strikes When He Called to 'Crush' Their Nuclear Program in 2020?

A resignation on principle that rocked the Beltway this week isn’t looking so principled after all.

When Joe Kent, the now-former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, very publicly announced on Tuesday that he’s quitting over the Iran war, he claimed he could not serve “in good conscience” when he believed Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation.”

That’s lunacy, just considering the murderous mullahs’ history alone, but a resurfaced social media post makes it look like a lie, too — and from a man accused of being a high-level leak.

In a 2020 post on the platform then known as Twitter, in fact, Kent made exactly the opposite argument.

Here’s a screen shot, in case it’s mysteriously disappeared at some point:

“I personally think we should have crushed their ballistic & nuke capes, but Trump has a plan, he has definitely earned the confidence of any clear eyed observer,” Kent wrote on Jan. 19, 2020, in response to a since-deleted post.

At the time, Kent was an Army Green Beret who’d served more than 20 years, including combat deployments to Iraq, according to a Forbes profile published on Tuesday.

He was also a Gold Star widower whose wife, Shannon, had been a linguist and cryptographer who served with the Navy SEALS. She was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Syria in 2019, Forbes reported.

So, to be clear, he’s paid his dues — and then some. He’s given far more to this country in terms of service than most Americans have, by far. He’s risked more. And he’s lost more.

That demands both admiration and respect. There’s no question about that.

What it does not........

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