Breaking: Top Trump Official Resigns in Protest of Iran War as Dam Breaks
The Parnas Perspective
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | We have breaking news right now. A top Trump official has just resigned in protest of Donald Trump's war in Iran. |
| 0:08.2 | A stunning morning right now as Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, |
| 0:14.1 | who was appointed by Donald Trump as a MAGA ally under Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, |
| 0:19.9 | says he is stepping down from |
| 0:22.3 | his position as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of what Donald |
| 0:27.5 | Trump is doing in Iran, claiming that Israel has dragged the United States into another |
| 0:33.1 | forever war in the Middle East. And it comes as Donald Trump is facing major pushback for claiming |
| 0:38.4 | that he spoke to a former president regarding strikes in Iran. When the truth is, it looks as though |
| 0:44.1 | Trump may not have spoken to any former president or at least maybe the former president he's |
| 0:48.8 | claiming he spoke to is himself. Major developments right now. Make sure to like, |
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| 0:59.7 | People want me to stop, especially those close to the White House. I will never stop. So subscribe |
| 1:03.8 | as we keep building. Let's build it together. This morning, Joe Kent, the director of |
| 1:08.7 | National Counterterrorism Center, says, quote, Mr. President, |
| 1:12.5 | President Trump, after much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as director |
| 1:17.2 | of the National Counterterrorism effective today. I cannot, in good conscience, support the ongoing |
| 1:23.2 | war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this |
| 1:29.1 | war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby, likely referring to APEC. |
| 1:34.7 | I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, |
| 1:41.3 | 2024, which you enacted in your first term. |
| 1:45.8 | Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that |
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