Jen Psaki used her MSNBC platform this week to attack President Donald Trumps national security team and to cast doubt on his honesty about the Iran conflict, seizing on the resignation of former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent as political ammunition.
According to Breitbart, Psaki used Tuesdays broadcast of MSNBCs The Briefing to claim that Kent was unqualified for the job and had a history of associating with far-right figures and peddling debunked January 6 conspiracies. She further argued that his departure is also a sign that Trump isnt telling the truth about the reason for this war, framing internal personnel changes as evidence of broader dysfunction within the Trump camp.
Psaki asserted, Joe Kent was not some kind of career bureaucrat with a long history of intelligence work, or really a person with a history of any intelligence work whatsoever. He was a twice-failed MAGA congressional candidate who had a history of associating with far-right figures and peddling debunked January 6 conspiracies. She continued, He was a loyal member of what you might call the Tucker Carlson wing of the MAGA movement. So loyal that he reportedly ordered an analyst to write an intelligence assessment about the relationship between Venezuela and Tren de Aragua to better align with the whims of the president.
She later added, Look, the most striking thing to me about Joe Kents resignation is not that he was unqualified for the job, we knew that, and that applies across many people Trump has appointed, but that this is yet another real sign of the enormous cracks within Trumps party over the Iran War. Its also a sign that Trump isnt telling the truth about the reason for this war. Psakis remarks fit a familiar pattern on the left: dismissing America First figures as unqualified, smearing them as far-right, and using foreign policy disputes to question President Trumps integrity rather than engaging his arguments on national security and the proper limits of American power.
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