Top Counterterrorism Official Joe Kent Resigns Over Iran War As NATO Allies Also Reject Trump

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President Donald Trump is finding it to be quite lonely on the battlefront, now that his deadly and expensive strike on Iran is growing increasingly unpopular, and losing him allies, both abroad and, apparently, within his own administration.

On Tuesday, the man Trump appointed as a top counterterrorism official resigned over the administration’s war in Iran, and now the president is responding by calling the man he put in the position “weak,” and claiming...