Democrats and their liberal media allies constantly debase themselves to try to score political points against President Donald Trump. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has most recently provided a perfect example of just how low Democrats are willing to go on this front.
Joe Kent has resigned as the director of Trump‘s National Counterterrorism Center, a welcome announcement given that Kent is a conspiracy theorist who never should have been near the level of power. He is an election denier who was so unlikable among Republicans and swing voters that he managed to lose to a Democrat in an R+11 congressional district. He has worked in the past with racist podcaster Nick Fuentes. And Kent is obsessed with Israel, claiming in his resignation letter that Israel (along with American Jews) is controlling Trump and that Israel got his wife killed. (She was killed in an ISIS suicide bombing in Syria)
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In other words, Kent is exactly the kind of toxic, immoral character who belongs nowhere near any level of our politics. The very fact that he ever gained traction in the GOP and was elevated to the position he held in the Trump administration is an indictment of Trump and his willingness to tolerate deranged conspiracy theorists if he feels like they are loyal to him.
Warner recognized this when Kent was first elevated within the Trump administration. Here is what Warner said when Kent was first nominated to the position: “At a time when domestic violent extremism is one of the fastest-growing threats to the homeland, we are being asked to put someone in charge of counterterrorism who has aligned himself with political violence, promoted falsehoods that undermine our democracy and tried to twist intelligence to serve a political agenda.”
What did Warner, the supposedly sensible top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, have to say in response to Kent’s resignation letter, where he peddled the antisemitic conspiracy theory that the Jews are controlling the U.S. government? The guy who Warner himself said promotes “falsehoods that undermine our democracy” and twists “intelligence to serve a political agenda”? Did he condemn the conspiracy theories Kent spouted in his resignation letter?
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No, instead he said that the conspiracy theorist was right that Iran didn’t pose an immediate threat to the U.S., so Warner could get a dig on Trump for decapitating the Iranian regime. Warner chose to believe Kent’s words uncritically and ally himself with a conspiracy theorist loon, all so he could claim that Trump is actually the crazy one in this scenario.
For Warner, scoring a point against Trump is the top priority, so he is willing to legitimize Kent’s conspiracy theory-laden rant about Israel in order to piggyback off of Kent’s opposition to strikes against Iran. Democrats are willing to adopt the framing of any embarrassing, toxic politician, even ones they themselves argued are “undermining our democracy,” if it means they can wield them against Trump.
