Right-wing podcasters, many of whose support helped Donald Trump sweep back into the Oval Office in 2024, have heralded the resignation of counterterrorism chief Joe Kent as further proof of a MAGA breakdown.
“The MAGA Coalition is shattered,” Tim Dillon, host of the Timcast, wrote on X in response to Kent’s announcement. “Trump can say 'I AM MAGA' all he wants, and it may be true, but lost support means MAGA is meaningless.”
In a resignation letter posted online Tuesday, Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said he could not “in good conscience” support Trump’s decision to take the U.S. to war with Iran, because Iran posed “no imminent threat to our nation.”
Stalwart members of the MAGA movement, including Marjorie Taylor Greene and model Carrie Prejean Boller, also threw their weight behind Kent and his decision. “Joe Kent is a GREAT AMERICAN HERO. God bless him and protect him!” Greene wrote on X.
Kent served for two decades as an Army Green Beret and lost his wife, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, to a suicide bombing in Syria in 2019 – which he referred to in his resignation letter.
