A top Trump loyalist just walked away \u2013 and he\u2019s accusing the president of betraying everything he once promised.<\/p>\n
Joe Kent, a decorated Green Beret and Trump insider, says the Iran war is built on a lie.<\/p>\n
Joe Kent\u2019s resignation lands like a thunderclap because it comes from inside Trump\u2019s own war machine.<\/p>\n
This is not a liberal critic or a distant bureaucrat; it\u2019s a decorated Green Beret, a CIA veteran, and the man who ran America\u2019s terrorist watchlists.<\/p>\n
For years, he defended Trump\u2019s foreign policy as a necessary course correction after Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Now he says the Iran war repeats the very deceptions he once fought to expose.<\/p>\n
His break is not abstract.<\/p>\n
Kent\u2019s wife died in a bombing in Syria, a loss he believed would never be repeated if Washington finally learned from its mistakes.<\/p>\n
Watching Trump, under pressure from Israel and its U.S. lobby, launch another war on claims of an \u201cimminent threat\u201d shattered that faith.<\/p>\n
By walking away, Kent is forcing a brutal question into the open:<\/p>\n
if even Trump\u2019s most loyal warriors say this war isn\u2019t worth one more American life, who is it really for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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