While Donald Trump put together a team after his election victory, he chose quite a few Republicans who ran and lost bids for a chosen office. While the second term of the President in the White House starts, he continues to add to that list.
Take Joe Kent for example. The Seattle Times reported:
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he nominates the former conference candidate Joe Kent van Washington as director of the National Countertertrorism Center. Trump made the announcement about Truth Social, his social media platform. “As a soldier, Green Beret and CIA officer, Joe hunted his entire adult life to terrorists and criminals,” Trump wrote.
As the Times report has added, the terrorism control center coordinates the strategy of the nation against terrorism and maintains a national repository of well -known and suspected terrorists. It works as a partnership of organizations, including the CIA, FBI and Defense. “
The name Van Kent is perhaps known to those who keep a close eye on campaigns and elections: the Republican is run twice before the congress in a district that tends to like Gop candidates, but he also lost twice Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Regarding the reason why knows those competitions lost, it undoubtedly had something to do with the congressman who carried out good campaigns with a compelling message. But there were also parts of the record of the Republican that may have eliminated some local voters. The Associated Press published this memorable report during his campaign in 2022 and emphasized Kent’s “right -wing extremists, including a campaign adviser who was a member of the proud boys.”
Kent … has also tried prominent white nationalists and recently posed for a photo with a media personality that Adolf Hitler has previously described as a ‘complicated historical figure’ who ‘misunderstanding many people’.
Likewise, this week Seattle Times Report Well -known Kent’s “reported associations with white nationalists and other extreme right -wing groups, and hugs of conspiracy theories about a series of topics.”
Under the conspiracy theories of the Republican, the conviction is that the 2020 presidential elections were “rigged and stolen” and that the FBI – an agency with which he probably had worked together – is “corrupt” and “to heel”.
Or otherwise, Trump made a curious choice to serve as director of the National CounterTrorism Center.
This is a position confirmed by the Senate. If you think the confirmation hearings are probably interesting, you are not the only one.
This article was originally published on msnbc.com