There is a fair chance you've never heard of Joe Kent, a retired Green Beret who served as President Donald Trump's director at the National Counterterrorism Center but resigned March 17 in protest about the war in Iran.

Trump now wants you to think he doesn't know Kent, either. Trump, who has drawn criticism from some big names in the MAGA-verse for the war he launched on Feb. 28, felt compelled to respond to Kent's resignation with a standard Trumpian distancing device.

"I always thought he was a nice guy," Trump said of Kent, whom he endorsed for Congress in 2022 and 2024. "But I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn't know him well, but he seemed like a pretty nice guy."

In a normal presidency, this would be the stuff of scandal. The president just admitted in public that he gave a serious national security job to someone he always thought was "very weak on security."

Why would he do that? If Trump's claim is true, why didn't he fire Kent before he resigned?

Clearly, Trump wasn't prepared for obvious questions about Kent, because his impulses are his only plans.

Trump sure seemed to know Joe Kent when he nominated him

In Trump's view, being known by Trump is all that matters. He has a long history of claiming he doesn't know people he clearly knows when they cross him or are no longer of use to him.

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