Longtime MAGA supporter teams up with Trump Administration

A former U.S. counterterrorism official and vocal member of MAGA has returned for duty, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced on Thursday.

Joe Kent, who served in the U.S. Army and CIA before running as a Republican for Congress, will report to Gabbard as the new Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. There, he will be responsible for directing U.S. operations to thwart plans to carry out acts of domestic terrorism under a joint operation agreement with the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Gabbard posted a photo of Kent taking his oath of office at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in Washington, D.C. earlier on Thursday.