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And you could almost respect such an extreme, principled stance….if it were true.
But many are confused about how he could hold such views when just three months ago he told Shawn Ryan that Iran was an enemy and a clear threat to the United States:
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Footage of Joe Kent expressing why Iran was an enemy and threat to the United States on the on The Shawn Ryan Show 3 months ago is going viral amid his new claims that no threat was present.
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 19, 2026
So that already was putting his resignation into a strange light….things already not quite making sense. Dots not connecting.
And now we may have just got the big bombshell that might explain everything.
Fox News reports that Joe Kent is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly leaking confidential information.
And you might think “sure he is, the Trump Administration is retaliating because they’re mad about the statement he released” … but that would be incorrect.
Because the big bombshell here is the fact that the investigation began BEFORE he resigned.
In other words, did he catch wind that they were onto him and so he bolted?
See here from Fox News, Laura Ingraham looks visually stunned announcing this news:
🚨 BREAKING: Resigned NCTC Director Joe Kent is reportedly under FBI INVESTIGATION for “allegedly leaking CLASSIFIED INFORMATION”
And the investigation was reportedly going on before he resigned
This is INSANE.pic.twitter.com/IzHVtKcPVd
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 18, 2026
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Laura Ingraham: Moment ago, um, sources are saying that Joe Kent, the former director of the, uh, United States National Counterterror Center, this is from Semafor, he just resigned. He’s now under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information, and the investigation predates his departure.
Congressman, your reaction to that tonight.
Congressman: Wow. Well, there, there’s a lot there, and I think that we, we need to let this investigation play out. But we shouldn’t tolerate any leakers in the administration, particularly regarding classified national security, uh, interests and information.
So, um, we’ll, we’ll let this play out and, and see where it goes, but if he was leaking, he ought to be held accountable just like anybody else would be.
Laura Ingraham: Well, 5 minutes ago he seemed to think that Iran was a big threat, and then suddenly that threat went away. It was very odd.
Congressman, thank you very much. Great to see you.
Backup here on Rumble if needed:
So…was Joe Kent the big leaker inside the Trump Admin?
Did we just plug the hole?
1/ 🚨Theory: The real reason
Candace Owens, General Flynn’s circle, Infowars, Bannon & other big MAGA influencers are suddenly raging at Joe Kent isn’t just his Iran stance or “resignation drama.”It’s because they suspect (or know) he was their inside leak source… and now… pic.twitter.com/NfdmQAaFvo
— Jeffrey Pedersen (@intheMatrixxx) March 19, 2026
CBS News confirms:
BREAKING: The FBI is investigating Joe Kent, the ex-Trump counterterrorism chief who resigned over the Iran war yesterday. https://t.co/CidFkKCFKx
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 19, 2026
Here is more, from CBS News:
The FBI is investigating former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent in connection with alleged leaks of classified information, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell CBS News.
The probe began before Kent resigned this week over the Trump administration’s handling of the war with Iran, the sources said. The FBI’s Criminal Division is handling the probe, which has been underway for some time, one source said.
The FBI declined to comment. Kent did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The news was first reported by Semafor.
Former deputy White House chief of staff Taylor Budowich alluded to the issue shortly after Kent resigned, writing on X that Kent was “often at the center of national security leaks” and “spent all of his time working to subvert the chain of command and undermine the President.” He didn’t specify what information Kent was accused of leaking.
Kent announced he was stepping down in an open letter Tuesday that criticized the decision to launch a war against Iran when the country “posed no imminent threat to our nation.” He also asserted that “it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote.
He expanded on his reasoning in an interview Wednesday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Kent insisted to Carlson that there was no intelligence that Iran was going to preemptively attack the U.S. or was on the cusp of building a nuclear weapon, and said there wasn’t a “robust debate” ahead of the war, instead claiming “the Israelis drove the decision.”
The Trump administration has vehemently pushed back. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Kent’s resignation letter was filled with “false claims,” asserting that Iran did pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and calling suggestions that President Trump was driven to war by another country “insulting and laughable.”
Leavitt has also downplayed Kent’s importance, saying in a Fox News interview Wednesday that Kent “was not involved in any of the discussions” before or during the Iran war, and had not played a part in assembling the president’s intelligence brief in “a while.”
RELATED REPORTS:
Karoline Leavitt Answers Questions On DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s Future Following Joe Kent’s Resignation
President Trump Shares Screenshot Exposing Joe Kent Following Sudden Resignation
President Trump always keeps the receipts.
As the WLT Report covered on Tuesday, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, suddenly resigned.
In Kent’s resignation letter, he claimed he could no longer consciously support the war in Iran.
He later claimed it in his letter that Israel and its powerful lobbyists are the ones who persuaded President Trump into the war.
In his first response after learning that Kent had resigned, President Trump called Kent “weak.”
Watch here:
Trump later in the evening shared a screenshot from a post Kent made back in 2020 in which he supported attacks on Iran.
Take a look:
BREAKING: President Trump highlights Joe Kent’s post from 2020 where Kent said “We shouldn’t sit and wait for the next attack, wipe Iran’s ballistic capability out.” https://t.co/GLyhi8BfBT pic.twitter.com/hbv6pExjFa
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 18, 2026
USA Today reported more on Kent Resignation and Trump’s response:
The top US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday in protest over the Iran war, writing that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation” in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump.
Joe Kent, a conservative politician and former CIA paramilitary officer, quit as head of the National Counterterrorism Center, alleging the United States went to war “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby” and that Trump had been duped by a “misinformation campaign.”
Trump later told reporters “it’s a good thing that he’s out because he said Iran was not a threat. Every country recognized Iran was a threat.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on social media that Kent’s resignation letter was riddled with “false claims.”
Kent, who was a top aide to national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, is the first U.S. official to resign over the war, now in its 18th day.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard who Kent served under, also released a statement:
Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the…
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) March 17, 2026
Full Text:
Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is responsible for helping coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander in Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions.
After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion.
So what’s next for Joe Kent?
Apparently, he’s about to go on the podcast circuit.
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