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- ‘I Like Joe Kent’: JD Vance Addresses Trump Official’s Fiery Iran Protest ...
Vice President JD Vance insisted on Wednesday that the resignation of Joe Kent from the administration was a “good thing” because officials need to fall in line and back President Donald Trump’s Iran plans. Vance spoke to voters in Auburn Hills, Michigan on Wednesday in a talk mostly focused on the economy. The vice president also addressed the explosive resignation of Kent, Trump’s appointed director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Kent said in a public statement that he was resigning over U.S. strikes against Iran, arguing the country posed no “imminent threat” and suggesting the strikes were more motivated by Israel. “The president has said this, I’ve said this, nobody likes war,” Vance told a voter who asked about Kent and the “consequences” of the Iran situation. Vance argued the Iran situation will not turn into a drawn-out, boots-on-the-ground conflict like Iraq and Afghanistan, as many critics fear. On Kent, he said a “difference of opinion” is fine in the administration, but everyone needs to be working to make Trump’s agenda “successful” when it comes to Iran. “If you are on the team and you can’t help implement the decisions of his administration, he has the right to make those decisions, then it’s a good thing for you to resign,” he said. “And I think that’s exactly right. It’s fine to disagree, but once the president makes a decision, it’s up to everybody who serves in his administration to make it as successful as possible.” Vance said he personally likes Kent. “I know Joe Kent a little bit. I like Joe Kent. You heard the President of the United States say yesterday that he likes Joe Kent too. But it’s one thing to have a disagreement of opinion,” he said. “I know the President very well. He welcomes differences of opinion… He recognizes that everybody has smarts and everybody has wisdom. That said, whatever your view is, when the President of the United States makes a decision.” According to one report, Kent privately told Vance about his resignation before announcing it publicly. In his resignation, Kent said he could no longer serve in the administration in “good conscience.” “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” he wrote.… [TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago - ‘Insulting and Laughable’: Karoline Leavitt Shreds Joe Kent’s Allegations ...White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shredded former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent’s claims about President Donald Trump on Wednesday. In a resignation letter addressed to Trump on Tuesday, Kent — who faced significant scrutiny over his affinity for conspiracy theories and affiliations with Jew haters during his confirmation process — wrote the following: I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation. In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars. You demonstrated this by killing Qasam Solamani [sic] and by defeating ISIS. Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again. As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives. I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for. The time for bold action is now. You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us… [TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago
- ‘It’s Been Illegal For 170 Years!’ Rand Paul Shuts Down Markwayne Mullin F...Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) shut down President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, after Mullin bizarrely argued that dueling between two consenting senators was still legal in 2026. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday, Mullin was confronted by Paul with footage of the time he tried to get into a fist fight with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien on the Senate floor. “In the days after the fight, you did many interviews in which you justified the violence as historically justified by precedents such as caning and dueling,” said Paul. “Is it today your opinion that the caning of Charles Sumner was not only justified but are used still for resolving our political differences with violence?” Mullin replied, “What I was simply pointing out is some of the rules that still apply to this body. For instance, dueling with two consenting adults is still there.” Paul then informed Mullin, “It’s been illegal for 170 years! There’s no precedent for legal dueling. Even then, they fled the country. Do you realize that the man that beat Charles Sumner with a cane, he beat him until he was unconscious? You know why no senators intervened? Because his friend held a gun on the other senators, and he kept beating him and beating him until he crushed his skull.” “That’s what you’re insinuating is a precedent of the Senate, and that’s what you live by,” he concluded. “That is a very, very dangerous sentiment.” Watch above via MS NOW.The post ‘It’s Been Illegal For 170 Years!’ Rand Paul Shuts Down Markwayne Mullin For Suggesting Dueling Is Allowed in the Senate first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago
- ‘Today’ Host Files For Divorce In A Move That Many Could See Coming
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