Trump Says His Head Of Counter-Terrorism Was ‘Weak’ After He Opposes Iran War

Hours after his head of counter-terrorism quit saying he couldn’t support the war against Iran, President Donald Trump claimed he didn’t really know him that well but that he had “always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.”

“I always thought he was a nice guy,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday, not long after Joe Kent had announced he had stepped down from running the National Counter-terrorism Centre. “I didn’t know him well.”

That sentiment is at odds with his...