“I truly believe, like I said in the letter, that the way that the president was influenced by the media, but then also by Israeli government officials, and the way that decision-making was took place in a compartmentalized environment. Compartmentalized in the sense that the president didn't have a bunch of, didn't have much in terms of people giving him alternative viewpoints, that our country was in a bad spot, and the most effective thing that I could do was resign, resign publicly.”
“So Trump had said, my red line is no nuclear weapons. Diatola said, great. I don't want nuclear weapons either. Let's talk. So they moved the red line by saying, enrichment. Iran can have no enrichment. Enrichment equals a nuclear weapon, which is just fundamentally not true.”
Seizing Karg Island would create American hostages
“In terms of the Krog Island, that makes me nervous because I have heard so many people like Lindsey Graham and others that are not military people, that are not in the Pentagon, that are not reading intelligence every day, talk about it very flippantly. Like, oh, we'll just take that island. We'll just take their oil. I want to tell you guys, like, it's not 2003 anymore. You can't just put guys there and they'll occupy it. Like, there's ballistics, there's drones. They would be sitting ducks in that area.”
The FBI investigation is a reactionary media smear
“The only proof of there being an investigation is someone in the government leaking to the media saying that Kent's under investigation for being a leaker. So they had to leak that I'm a leaker. Right, exactly. That's why, like, I mean, I take it seriously. The FBI has ruined innocent people's lives, like General Flynn with an accusation before. So I take it seriously.”
“Unless we restrain the Israelis and tell them, like, you're done, and if you continue to attack and you continue to do things without telling us and asking us, without asking us first, we're paying for it, you're going to ask us first. Then, we are going to negate our other part of the deal, and our part of the deal says that we defend Israel.”
“We have stated that our strategic goal, you'll hear Secretary Hegseth rattle these off in his morning briefings that he gives to the media. It's to destroy the Iranian Navy, to destroy the IRGC, to destroy their ballistic missile capability, to destroy all their enrichment. So we have a checklist of things that we want to bomb, essentially, to take off the battlefield. That's about as far as we've gone with stating what our strategic goal is.”
Foreign links to Charlie Kirk's assassination need investigation
“There's foreign connections we need to look into. That I can't get into because that's gonna... That's all tied up inside of classified channels, essentially. But there was more work we needed to do. And now I'm not saying, like, you know how an investigation works. You chase down 99 leads, and 100 leads, and 99 of them are BS. And you get one good one.”
The Iran conflict threatens the global petrodollar system
“The dollar has already been weakened so much because of our deficit spending. We can deficit spend because we're the world's reserve currency holder. And a lot of that strength comes from the petrodollar, that any money that gets bought from the GCC or any oil that gets bought from the GCC, you got to sell the transaction in dollars.”
