Former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent says Stephen Miller, now President Trump's chief of staff, "knew going into the Iran war that this was bad" - and that Miller's predecessor, Susie Wiles, gave pro-Israel voices time in front of the president over the intelligence community, while anyone who brought him bad news was asked not to come back.
Former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe KentKent says it happened to him when he told Trump in the Oval Office that the Iran intelligence being briefed "all comes from the Israelis": CIA Director John Ratcliffe pushed back but "couldn't present anything" - and on his way out, Kent was told he wouldn't be needed at the next briefing. That was "a couple months" before "we let the Israelis drag us in."
Kent, who resigned in March over the war, told the story on the Shawn Ryan Show (episode #356, posted Nov. 12), his third time on the show. When he quit, he told Tucker Carlson that key officials were kept from briefing Trump, without saying who kept them out. This time he points at Wiles, whom Trump replaced with Miller on Nov. 6.
"It All Comes From The Israelis"
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