Joe Kent, the former congressional candidate from southwest Washington, is leaving his post as the Trump administration’s top counterterrorism official, saying he opposes the war in Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote on social media early Tuesday. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” Kent, who was confirmed last July, goes on to write that he had supported President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy agenda that balked at intervention in the...
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