{"id":98078,"date":"2026-03-18T04:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/why-did-us-counterterrorism-chief-and-maga-loyalist-joe-kent-turn-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:36:49","slug":"why-did-us-counterterrorism-chief-and-maga-loyalist-joe-kent-turn-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/why-did-us-counterterrorism-chief-and-maga-loyalist-joe-kent-turn-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did US counterterrorism chief and MAGA loyalist Joe Kent turn against Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, resigned over President Trump&#8217;s Iran policy, citing no imminent threat and pressure from Israel. Kent, a MAGA figure, warned against repeating past mistakes, drawing parallels to the Iraq war. His departure highlights dissent within the administration and the broader Republican base regarding foreign interventions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, resigned over President Trump&#8217;s Iran policy, citing no imminent threat and pressure from Israel. Kent, a MAGA figure, warned against repeating past mistakes, drawing parallels to the Iraq war. His departure highlights dissent within the administration and the broader Republican base regarding foreign interventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":98079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}