"It All Comes From The Israelis": Joe Kent Reveals What Happened When He Told Trump About Iran Intel

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"It All Comes From The Israelis": Joe Kent Reveals What Happened When He Told Trump About Iran Intel Former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent says Stephen Miller,…

Former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent says Stephen Miller, now President Trump's chief of staff, "knew going into the Iran war that this was bad" - and that Miller's predecessor, Susie Wiles, gave pro-Israel voices time in front of the president over the intelligence community, while anyone who brought him bad news was asked not to come back.

Kent says it happened to him when he told Trump in the Oval Office that the Iran intelligence being briefed "all comes from the Israelis": CIA Director John Ratcliffe pushed back but "couldn't present anything" - and on his way out, Kent was told he wouldn't be needed at the next briefing. That was "a couple months" before "we let the Israelis drag us in."

Kent, who resigned in March over the war, told the story on the Shawn Ryan Show (episode #356, posted Nov. 12), his third time on the show. When he quit, he told Tucker Carlson that key officials were kept from briefing Trump, without saying who kept them out. This time he points at Wiles, whom Trump replaced with Miller on Nov. 6.

Kent says he and Tulsi Gabbard worried that intelligence reaching Trump wasn't being labeled with where it came from. On Iran, he said, it was "never being explained to the president that that information, lock, stock, and barrel, all came from Israel." "Not only did it just come from Israel, we really don't have a lot of unilateral, like our own intelligence collection, that can confirm or deny it," he added. Then he described the meeting:

Ratcliffe disagreed and was "adamant" that other information confirmed it, Kent said. "He couldn't present anything. And he also couldn't prove that the intelligence report in question was not all from Israel. It was indeed all from Israel. So the president at least got that context there."

Kent said he was "promptly told as I left the Oval Office that day" that his services weren't wanted. "They just said, hey, we're not going to need you at the next briefing.

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