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[24 October 2022]: Questions have been asked about a mystery account said to be supporting the campaign of Trump-backed Joe Kent – triggering wild speculation and theories about the former Green Beret.

A report published at the weekend claimed that a company listed by the 42-year-old Maga champion as paying his salary, did not appear to exist.

The Daily Beast said Mr Kent, who is involved in a showdown with Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez in Washington State’s third congressional district, had listed a company, American Enterprise Solutions, which he said was a tech start-up, as having paid him $122,110.36 last year as a “project manager”.

 

Conspiracy theories spread after questions raised over Trump-endorsed Joe Kent’s ‘mystery backer’
Democrat says article ‘raises important unanswered questions about where exactly Joe Kent is employed’

BY Andrew Buncombe

 

The public filing also listed pension payments made to the former special operations soldier, and for his late wife, Shannon Kent, who was killed by an Isis bomb in Syria.

The report said: “One problem: There’s no record the company exists”.

The article added “American Enterprise Solutions holds no patents or trademarks, has no licenses, no website, no social media pages, and not a single publicly announced contract with a government agency or a private wireless provider”.

It said: “The Daily Beast phoned the owner of the only company ever formed under that name in the Commonwealth of Virginia, who said that the entity—listed as inactive in the State Corporation Commission—has been defunct for the better part of a decade, did not work in the tech sector, and never employed Kent.”

Even during more sober times, Americans are not immune to creating conspiracy theories to fill in the blanks for issues that might otherwise have a simple solution.

Yet in an era that some have described as being “post-truth” the article said the mysterious filing, along with the background in general of someone who spent two decades engaged with the CIA as part of the so-called war of terror, were creating a sub-species of theories all of their own.

It said one one website had uploaded multiple videos in which audience members questioned the candidate about his employment situation. In one clip from May, Mr Kent repeated the name of his employer was “American Enterprise Solutions”.

Mr Kent, who has been holding campaign events with former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard who has endorsed him, told The Independent that his campaign would shortly be releasing a statement about the article.

 

Mr Kent’s spokesperson, Ozzie Gonzalez, told The Daily Beast: “AES is a technology company registered in Delaware and operated out of Reston, VA.”

Mr Kent is facing off with Ms Perez, 34, after beating incumbent Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler in a primary this summer. Ms Herrera Beutler was one of 10 Republicans in the House who voted for Mr Trump’s impeachment and he vowed to oust.

 

The website Five Thirty Eight gives Mr Kent a 97 per cent of winning the race.

In a statement, Sandeep Kaushik, an adviser to Ms Perez said: “We don’t know anything more than what the Daily Beast has reported, but their story raises important unanswered questions about where exactly Joe Kent is employed and what the source of his income is.”

He added: “There are obviously very serious ethical and public disclosure implications if it is true that, as the Daily Beast story states, Joe Kent is claiming his six-figure income comes from a company that may not exist.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/midterm-elections-2022/joe-kent-salary-tech-company-midterms-cia-b2209646.html

 

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Whitney Webb joins Jimmy to explain her deep skepticism of Joe Kent, the former CIA counterterrorism official who resigned over the Iran war, warning that he may be part of a long-game psy-op to create a "domestic terrorist" profile that the national security state can later target. She connects this sentiment to the first Trump administration's DHS hearings where officials explicitly defined anti-Semitic right-leaning populists as the emerging domestic terror threat—a classification that could now be triggered by conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

Webb argues that the same infrastructure built for the War on Terror abroad is now being turned inward, and that figures like Kent may be engineered to "signal boost" anti-Zionist sentiment to create a category of Americans the government can later round up as subversives. She urges critical thinking and vigilance, noting that the "MAGA civil war" may be deliberately orchestrated to provide pretext for domestic surveillance expansion.

Whitney Webb: What They’re NOT Telling You About Joe Kent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGT9ghzkovk

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

corrupt bibi.....

Leaked Footage. Insider Accounts. Corruption Allegations. A Side Of Netanyahu You’ve Never Seen.

Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister and one of the most powerful figures in global politics. 

But behind the image presented to the world are years of corruption allegations, backroom deals, and decisions that have reshaped the geopolitical balance of the world.

Featuring leaked interrogation footage from Netanyahu’s corruption investigations, testimony from former insiders and staff, The Bibi Files is a deep look at policies that helped shape today’s conflicts… Including one of the most controversial claims: Netanyahu played a role in funding the forces that later became its greatest threat.

This is not the story you’ll hear on cable news. And as the United States is once again drawn toward war in the Middle East, understanding the leadership driving these events has never been more important. Stream The Bibi Files, available now.

https://tuckercarlson.com/watchthebibifiles

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

Jpost's....

 

Joe Kent’s resignation revealed what was in clear sight - opinion

Washington is outraged at Joe Kent, but his history was always clear; the real story is who enabled him and why it’s now being ignored.

By DANIEL GOLDMAN

JERUSALEM POST [ZIONIST NEWPAPER]

 

Joe Kent held problematic views before Donald Trump nominated him. He held them during his Senate confirmation hearings. He held them while serving as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. And he expressed them, finally and openly, in the resignation letter full of conspiracies concerning Israel and the Jewish lobby, which has Washington performing its familiar theatre of outrage and selective amnesia, blocking from view who is responsible for the Kent debacle.

His record was never hidden. Kent’s association with Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and self-described fighter for a “white majority,” was public during his congressional campaigns. So was a 47-minute livestream, now hastily made private within hours of his resignation going viral, in which Kent grovelled before a teenage white nationalist podcaster to win back Fuentes’ groyper movement’s approval after briefly trying to distance himself. 

On that recording, Kent said he saw “nothing wrong with there being a white people special interest group,” and objected to Fuentes only on grounds of tactics, not substance.

His embrace of January 6 conspiracy theories, his appearance before the American Populist Union not once but twice: none of this was obscured. The Anti-Defamation League opposed his nomination.

A broad coalition of organisations, joined the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Western States Center to write directly to Tom Cotton and Mark Warner, the chair and vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urging rejection. The evidence landed on Cotton’s desk.

Then he and 52 Republican senators confirmed him anyway. (All the Democrats and one Republican voted against). We have witnessed a form of DC performance art designed to ensure that no one is held accountable for anything.

Senator Mitch McConnell, who voted to confirm Kent, now thunders about “virulent antisemitism,” despite having cast the vote that put him there. Tom Cotton, who chaired the Intelligence Committee that vetted him and praised him for having “dedicated his career to fighting terrorism,” now says he “disagrees with his misguided assessment.”

Don Bacon tweets, “good riddance.” These men are not experiencing a moral awakening. The only thing that changed is that Kent became inconvenient, not because he displayed antisemitism, but because he deployed it against a war they support.

'Joe is the bravest man I know': Tucker Carlson

The Tucker Carlson wing has done the opposite, showing troubling coherence. Carlson told The New York Times that “Joe is the bravest man I know, and he can’t be dismissed as a nut.” Steve Bannon called his service record “beyond question” and demanded a full investigation into the war’s origins. 

Former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called him “a GREAT AMERICAN HERO.” These voices are cheering Kent precisely because his letter confirms their worldview. It’s the point, not a mistake. The antisemitism isn’t a bug; it’s a feature. 

The Democratic response is more mixed. Responsible voices, including senators like Jacky Rosen and former Biden advisor Amos Hochstein, were clear about Kent. Rosen told Jewish Insider, “This is Trump’s war. It’s 100% on him.”

Hochstein tweeted, “Whether you support the war or oppose it, Joe Kent is a well known neo-nazi racist. No one should be taking anything he says seriously - even if you happen to agree with some elements.” But others were less careful. Patty Murray, who called Kent “a radical, unqualified conspiracy theorist” whose record was “disqualifying” at confirmation, declared on Tuesday: “Good riddance to Joe Kent, a disgraceful white supremacist, but that’s a major public admission that there was NO justification for this war.”

She condemned him and used him in the same breath. Senator Bernie Sanders went further still, explicitly endorsing Kent’s claim that Israel and its American lobby drove the country to war. Hypocrisy is bipartisan and alive and well on Capitol Hill.

Nobody on the Right, not a single commentator, not a single Republican senator, is prepared to state the obvious: Trump knew. Trump nominated him. Trump praised him as someone who had “hunted down terrorists and criminals his entire adult life.”

Trump personally recruited him at Dover Air Force Base as Shannon Kent’s body was being returned home, and later took credit for encouraging him into politics. These are not the actions of a president who privately harboured doubts about his nominee’s character. They are the actions of a president who saw in Kent exactly what he wanted, and got it.

Now, Trump says about Kent that he has “always thought he was weak on security.” You do not appoint men you privately consider weak to run your National Counterterrorism Centre. You do not recruit them personally at their most grief-stricken moment. You do not praise them as terrorism hunters on the day of their nomination. That claim is, simply, a lie.

There is a final irony that deserves to be named. By appointing Kent, knowing precisely who he was, confirming him through a process that put every association on the public record, with major organisations writing directly to the Senate Intelligence Committee in opposition, the administration and its Republican allies in Congress have handed the Carlson wing exactly the asset it needed: a decorated combat veteran, a Gold Star husband, a former senior intelligence official with impeccable MAGA credentials and a resignation letter that blames Israel on everything.

They built him. They credentialled him. They gave him a government platform and a security clearance. And now they cannot cope with what he has done with it. In the annals of Washington self-inflicted wounds, this is a remarkable own goal, led by Trump and scored by people who knew the player’s history, put him on the field anyway, and are now pretending they always thought he was weak or antisemitic.

The writer is a founding partner of Goldrock Capital and the founder of The Institute for Jewish and Zionist Research.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-891014

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

METHINKS THAT DONALD TRUMP NEEDED A FALL GUY THAT WOULD DUMP ON ISRAEL ONCE DONALD STARTED HIS WAR ON IRAN — NOT SO MUCH TO DAMAGE ISRAEL [ALREADY WELL GUILTY OF MANY SINS INCLUDING GENOCIDE] BUT TO PROTECT HIS ARSE... METHINKS THAT JOE KENT KNOWINGLY PLAYED THE ROLE TO PERFECTION.... MEANWHILE TULSI GABBARD IS OVER HER HEAD...

joe kent....

Cenk Uygur and former Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent discuss smears from the media and Trump administration on The Young Turks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9c04avgTc

 

Is Joe Kent Trustworthy? Cenk Finds Out

 

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.