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Joe Kent: “The only official I've heard, and folks are welcome to look…”

Featuring: Joe Kent, Far-right, America First | Former Candidate, U.S. House Washington, District 3

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Joe Kent Reveals All in First Interview Since Resigning as Trump's Counterterrorism Director

Published | Video Starts at 34:41

Who will come in and say, well, they're enriching and they could enrich or they could enrich more and that will get them closer to a nuclear weapon. So then enrichment basically became the new U.S. policy. And The only official I've heard, and folks are welcome to look for this, that actually said this in the first Trump administration was Mike Pompeo. He said it, the president didn't say it. The president has been very consistent. He said they can't have a nuclear weapon. (34:41–34:49)

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Asserts that Mike Pompeo was the only official to state the U.S. policy against Iran's nuclear enrichment in the Trump administration.

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