The GOP is dismissing Joe Kent. They might come to regret it.

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And the White House was doing what it has done since the war began — insisting that the critics amount to little more than a loud, online fringe with no real purchase in Trump’s MAGA party.

But there is a clear risk in dismissing Kent. Carlson and Owens, whose average viewership rivals CNN’s primetime lineup, have both suggested, or hosted people who have suggested, that Israel is behind a range of ills — from leading the U.S. into a war with Iran to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Kent’s resignation letter, which he shared on X, said intelligence showed Iran posed no imminent threat despite Trump’s assertions and that Israel pushed the U.S. into war.

“The president does not make these incredibly important national security decisions based on fluid opinion polls or podcast hosts, but on the best interest of the American people,” said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle.

Ingle described Kent’s letter as “self-aggrandizing” and “riddled with lies,” disputing the assertion that Israel forced the U.S. to strike Iran and insisting that Iran did in fact pose an “imminent threat” and was “preparing to strike Americans first.”

Whether this proves the start of something larger remains to be seen. When Biden administration staffers began resigning over the U.S.’s support for Israel’ s war in Gaza, the White House dismissed them as fringe voices out of step with the American mainstream.