“As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first.” As if on cue, some of Kent’s adversaries in the MAGA movement excoriated him as a “leaker” and “egomaniac” who was on his way to getting fired. He has publicly said that the 2020 election was “rigged & stolen”; has claimed that federal agents instigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; and has called COVID-19 vaccines “experimental gene therapy.” In his letter, Kent invoked anti-Semitic tropes, blaming “pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby” and “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media” for all but tricking Trump into war. In 2019, before she pivoted to being a Trump supporter, she tweeted that the president’s “shortsighted foreign policy is bringing us to the brink of war with Iran and allowing Iran to accelerate nuclear program [sic]—just to please Saudis and Netanyahu.
Author: Shane Harris
Published at: 2026-03-17 22:34:00
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