President of the United States Donald Trump considered this Tuesday that it is a good thing that the director of the National Antiterrorism Center, Joe Kent, has resigned due to his objections to the war with Iran, and criticized him for being very weak on security. "When someone works with us and says he did not believe Iran was a threat, we don't want that kind of people," Trump said from the Oval Office, reported by the CNN news chain and learned by the Argentine News Agency. However, the U.S. president insisted that Iran represents a threat to the United States, and added about Kent that "it is good that he is no longer there." "Iran was a threat," said Trump. In his resignation letter, he wrote: "I cannot, with a clear conscience, support the ongoing war with Iran." Kent also stated that Iran did not represent "any imminent threat" to the United States, and accused Israel of pushing the Trump administration toward war. Kent declared that he cannot support sending the next generation to "fight and die in a war that does not benefit the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives." Trump, who appointed Kent to the position, told the press that he had always considered him "a good guy." "All countries realized the threat that Iran represented." Previously, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, issued an extensive statement with the aim of discrediting Kent after he announced his resignation. Leavitt stated in a post on X that Trump had "solid and convincing evidence" that Iran was going to attack the United States first, and added that such evidence "was collected from numerous sources and factors." "The commander in chief determines what constitutes a threat or not, because he is constitutionally empowered to do so, and because the American people went to the polls and entrusted him, and only him, with the power to make those final decisions," said Leavitt, reported by CNN. She then criticized what she described as Kent's "absurd accusation" that Trump "made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries," calling it "insulting and ridiculous." Other external advisors of Trump joined in against Kent, including the former White House Communications Director, Taylor Budowich, who called him a "crazy egomaniac" and a "loser", along with right-wing activist Laura Loomer, who suggested she had been "warning about Kent for a long time." "They are not smart people, or they are not savvy people." Trump's statements came hours after Kent resigned as director of the National Antiterrorism Center.
