{"id":2581371,"date":"2026-03-18T14:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-knocks-joe-kent-for-public-iran-war-dissent-with-resignation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:55:02","slug":"vance-knocks-joe-kent-for-public-iran-war-dissent-with-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-knocks-joe-kent-for-public-iran-war-dissent-with-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance knocks Joe Kent for public Iran War dissent with resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-knocks-joe-kent-for-public-iran-war-dissent-with-resignation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2581371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President JD Vance publicly rebuked Joe Kent after Kent resigned as Trump\u2019s counterterrorism director in protest of the Iran war.Kent said he could not morally support the ongoing conflict, arguing iran posed no imminent threat and that the war was influenced by Israel and its lobby.Vance, while saying he likes Kent, urged unity and argued that once the president makes a decision, management officials should work to make it accomplished rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nj-lawmaker-admits-gun-control-bill-has-nothing-to-do-with-criminals\/\" title=\"NJ Lawmaker Admits Gun Control Bill Has Nothing to Do With Criminals\">publicly breaking ranks<\/a>; he suggested kent should have consulted Trump and other aides before resigning. Trump responded by praising Kent\u2019s departure, claiming Iran was a threat and calling Kent weak on security. the piece frames kent\u2019s resignation as the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-washington-summit-republicans-forge-a-vision-for-the-future\/\" title=\"At Washington Summit, Re...ans Forge a Vision for the Future\">high-ranking administration official<\/a> to resign over the Iran war,noting related issues such as rising gas prices,NATO\u2019s role in securing the Strait of Hormuz,and energy-policy moves like waiving the Jones Act to lower prices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Vance knocks Joe Kent for going public with Iran War dissent in resignation<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"7658\">JD Vance<\/a> on Wednesday rebuked former <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4494051\/joe-kent-first-trump-administraion-official-resign-iran-war\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4494051\">counterterrorism director Joe Kent<\/a> after he resigned Tuesday in protest of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iran war<\/a>, saying administration officials who disagree with President Donald Trump should step aside rather than publicly break ranks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now I know Joe Kent a little bit. I like Joe Kent. You heard the president of the United States say yesterday that he likes Joe Kent too. But it&rsquo;s one thing to have a disagreement of opinion,&rdquo; Vance said on Wednesday as he visited a manufacturing plant in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4495036\/trump-nato-complaints-iran-war-distaste-multilateralism\/\">Trump&#8217;s NATO complaints over Iran war underscore distaste for multilateralism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4494522\/watch-live-trump-shamrock-bowl-st-patricks-day-micheal-martin\/\">WATCH LIVE: Trump participates in Shamrock Bowl presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4494854\/white-house-dhs-government-shutdown-ice-self-identify\/\">White House floats requiring ICE officers to self-identify in talks with Democrats to reopen DHS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;But once the president makes a decision, it&rsquo;s up to everybody who serves in his administration to make it as successful as possible,&rdquo; Vance continued. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s how I do my job, and I think that&rsquo;s how everybody in the administration should do their job too.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video featured-post-video in-content bridtv\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2534983\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:1280;height:720;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video-placeholder\" style=\"position:relative;overflow:hidden;width:100%;padding-top:56.25%;background-color:#000;\">\n<div style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;width:100%;height:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kent announced his resignation on social media, claiming he was morally opposed to the Iran war. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,&rdquo; Kent wrote. &ldquo;Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/03\/17\/joe-kent-resigns-iran-war\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/03\/17\/joe-kent-resigns-iran-war\/\">reportedly met<\/a> with Kent and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday. During the meeting, Kent presented his resignation to the vice president. Vance reportedly counseled Kent to speak with Trump and chief of staff Susie Wiles before making a final decision.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters on Tuesday that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s a good thing that he&rsquo;s out because he said Iran was not a threat. Every country recognized Iran was a threat.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that Kent, the first high-ranking Trump administration official to resign over the war, was &ldquo;very weak on security.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>During his trip to Michigan, Vance reiterated Trump&rsquo;s previous comments that members of the administration who can&rsquo;t implement the president&rsquo;s decisions should step down.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good thing for you to resign,&rdquo; Vance. &ldquo;And I think that&rsquo;s exactly right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance also spoke in Michigan about the Trump administration&rsquo;s record on the economy. He conceded that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-rip-democrat-brad-sherman-for-begging-saudi-arabia-to-produce-more-oil\/\" title=\"Conservatives Rip Democrat Brad Sherman for \u2018Begging\u2019 Saudi Arabia to Produce More Oil\">rising gas prices due<\/a> to the fallout of the Iran war are a concern for the American public.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, gas prices are up, and we know they&rsquo;re up, and we know that people are hurting because of it, and we&rsquo;re doing everything that we can to ensure that they stay lower,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;I will say the president said this, and I certainly agree with it. This is a temporary blip.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Iran&rsquo;s attacks on the Strait of Hormuz have caused gas prices to surge since the war began on Feb. 28. Trump had asked for NATO allies to help secure the strait, but declared he <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4492737\/trump-nato-allies-ran-war\/\">didn&rsquo;t need their help<\/a> after many nations rebuffed his request.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Trump <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/4495578\/trump-waives-jones-act-bid-stanch-rise-oil-prices\/\">waived the Jones Act<\/a>, a law that requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be carried only by American-built ships, to help lower oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not going to last forever. We&rsquo;re going to take care of business,&rdquo; Vance said about gas prices. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to come back home, and when that happens, you&rsquo;re going to see energy prices come back down to reality.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re working on a number of things, in fact, a couple of things that I think will be announced in just the next 24 to 48 hours,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-vice-president-mike-pence-joins-the-heritage-foundation\/\" title=\"Former ... Mike Pence Joins The Heritage Foundation\">vice president added<\/a>. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to get ahead of the president on that.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3353848\/trump-executive-order-shut-down-education-department-official\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3353848\/trump-executive-order-shut-down-education-department-official\/\">JOE KENT, TRUMP&rsquo;S COUNTERTERRORISM DIRECTOR, BECOMES FIRST ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL TO RESIGN OVER IRAN WAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vance also claimed that the war was hurting Iran far more than the U.S., which has pursued an energy dominance agenda under the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So as much as we&rsquo;ve got, we got to focus on getting these gas prices down,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The reality is, overseas, they&rsquo;re feeling it far worse than we did, because we&rsquo;ve taken the steps to protect our energy economy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance condemns Kent for resigning over Iran war dissent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2581372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26072682439721.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[75072,76083,15469],"class_list":["post-2581371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-iran-war","tag-joe-kent-2","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26072682439721.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581375,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581371\/revisions\/2581375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}