{"id":22156,"date":"2026-03-23T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/trump-goes-scorched-earth-on-joe-kent-suggesting-leak-and-bringing-up-remarriage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:18:34","slug":"trump-goes-scorched-earth-on-joe-kent-suggesting-leak-and-bringing-up-remarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/trump-goes-scorched-earth-on-joe-kent-suggesting-leak-and-bringing-up-remarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goes Scorched Earth On Joe Kent, Suggesting Leak And Bringing Up Remarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">President Trump said he is \u201cnot a fan\u201d of former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent following Kent\u2019s resignation and reports that the FBI is investigating him over allegations of leaking classified information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Trump sharply criticized Kent in remarks to reporters on Monday, portraying him as ungrateful after being brought into the administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cLook, I\u2019m not a fan of the guy,\u201d Trump said, adding that he felt bad for Kent after his wife\u2019s death and losing two Congressional races. \u201cI said, \u2018Call him up, give him a job in the White House,\u2019 and this is what he does.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A source familiar with the matter told The Daily Wire that federal authorities are probing whether Kent improperly shared classified material. The investigation comes just days after Kent stepped down from his post in protest of the Trump administration\u2019s military campaign against Iran\u2019s Islamic regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Trump says he is not a fan of Joe Kent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8yVV5FZX5d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/8yVV5FZX5d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KassyAkiva\/status\/2036084623101272485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI hear they\u2019re looking at him for leaking. That\u2019s possible,\u201d Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Trump also brought up Kent\u2019s personal life, noting that after his wife\u2019s death, \u201che remarried fairly quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">In his resignation letter, Kent argued that Iran \u201cposed no imminent threat to our nation\u201d and claimed the conflict was driven by \u201cpressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cIran\u2019s been a threat for 47 years, and there\u2019s not a country in the world that doesn\u2019t agree with me on that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI never knew he had a problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Last week, Vice President JD Vance echoed the administration\u2019s stance, emphasizing that officials are expected to support presidential decisions once they are made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cWhatever your view is, when the President of the United States makes a decision, it\u2019s your job to make that decision as effective and successful as possible,\u201d Vance said. \u201cIf you are on the team and you cannot help implement the decisions of his administration \u2026 then it\u2019s a good thing for you to resign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard also raised concerns about Kent\u2019s public comments blaming Israel for the war. When asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik whether the remarks were troubling, Gabbard replied, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">In a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe directly contradicted Kent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI think Iran has been a constant threat to the United States for an extended period of time and posed an immediate threat,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Since leaving the administration, Kent has appeared on podcasts hosted by Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, where he has continued to argue that the war with Iran does not serve American interests and has sought to rally opposition among conservative audiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Following his departure, people in Trump\u2019s orbit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-intel-official-joe-kent-quits-over-iran-strikes-claims-israel-controls-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">accused him<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> of leaking, with one calling him a \u201ccrazed egomaniac.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cJoe Kent is a crazed egomaniac who was often at the center of national security leaks, while rarely (never?) producing any actual work,\u201d said Taylor Budowich, the former deputy White House chief of staff. \u201cHe spent all of his time working to subvert the chain of command and undermine the President of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t some principled resignation \u2014 he just wanted to make a splash before getting canned. What a loser.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-goes-scorched-earth-on-joe-kent-suggesting-leak-and-bringing-up-remarriage\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said he is \u201cnot a fan\u201d of former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent following Kent\u2019s resignation and reports that the FBI is investigating him over allegations of leaking classified information. Trump sharply criticized Kent in remarks to reporters on Monday, portraying him as ungrateful after being brought into the administration.\u00a0 \u201cLook, I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}