Tim Pool admits there are “concerns internally” in the Trump administration over “how the war in Iran will play” politically in the midterms and 2028
Pool: “The people that are coming out and saying MAGA is entirely on board with Trump's efforts are ignoring two big facts. Independents are not. The middle-of-the-road people are not.”
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From the March 18, 2026, edition of Timcast, posted to YouTube
TIM POOL (HOST): Joe Kent was leaker who had been cut from president's intel briefings for months. Ladies and gentlemen, I can confirm this with internal sources. I'll give you as it was conveyed to me. As most of you know, we frequently have individuals from the administration. Several of the individuals we've had on our show and our friends of the show have gone on to work in the administration, and Joe Kent has been on the show several times and went to work in administration as well. So, of course, we reached out to try and figure out what was going on.
And, what I heard is basically the story as it's being put out there. That Joe Kent did not like the direction of what was going on internally. There were concerns about, obviously, an escalation to war which Joe Kent did not want. And thus, he began leaking information to individuals for which they ousted him, and he was no longer for months receiving key intel. He was not part of any meetings. And this was — resulted in a personal animosity. That is, he felt like he was being cut out despite being in this position and, you know, sacrificing and working really, really hard for what he saw as a Trump vision. The view that some people have internally is that his flipping on his positions on Iran has more to do with being slighted professionally and less to do with the actual merits of what's going on.
Now I'm not saying that's true, but again, internally there's also stuff that I can't report on, but, oh boy, I want to say it so much. Let me just put it like this. Internally, with these conflicts that are going on, and not necessarily about Joe Kent, but let me just say, a component of this has to do with 2028. That is — you know what? I'm just going to say a little bit. People are gonna get mad at me for saying this, but, there are concerns internally over how the war in Iran will play for moderates, middle of the road, and anti-interventionist libertarian types in terms of the Republicans chances in 2028. And this is a large rift internally. I'm not going to say who or anything like that, but you know I really want to. I -- you know, I talk to people in DC and they're like -- they're going to get mad at me for talking about this. They're like, don't say anything. I'm not going to say who, but there are concerns.
As I was saying this the other day, and Republicans are largely behind Donald Trump. But libertarians that helped put Trump over the edge and moderates, disaffected liberal types like myself, helped put Trump over the edge, that coalition breaks.
So while MAGA is strong in self-identifying as MAGA and Republicans still largely support Trump, Trump is seeing a decline in Republican support as it pertains to the war by small numbers. But the big concern that people have is whether or not people who called themselves MAGA no longer call themselves MAGA. And thus, it's — here's what I think. The people that are coming out and saying MAGA is entirely on board with Trump's efforts are ignoring two big facts. Independents are not. The middle-of-the-road people are not. This is bad for the midterms this year as well as the Republican chances in 2028.