Joe Kent Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Joe Kent

• His parents are Roman Catholic. Many years after his birth, his parents graduated from a law school.

• When he was a child, he showed interest in the military. He used to build weapons with Lego bricks.

• After that, he was inspired to join the United States Army while watching the television show The Battle of Mogadishu.

• When he was seventeen years old, Joe Kent was enrolled in the Army and joined the 75th Ranger Regiment.

• He also applied to the Special Forces and pursued the entrance course training.

• After completing the training, he was deployed to Iraq in September 2003.

• In Iraq, he participated in the First Battle of Fallujah. He was deployed to find the most wanted Iraqi officials listed by the U.S.
  

  An old picture of Joe Kent

• He fought eleven wars during his stint in the armed forces. These wars included the Yemen civil war and the North African wars.
  

  An old picture of Joe Kent during his posting in Iraq

• He superannuated as a chief warrant officer.

• After his retirement, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of America hired him as a paramilitary officer.

• He then joined politics and started supporting the far-right group. Reportedly, he voted for former American president George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 elections in America.

• Later, Joe Kent supported Ron Paul as a libertarian and followed the ideology from 2012 to 2019. After that, he started supporting the Democratic Party.

• His first wife was Shannon Smith, who served as a United States Navy cryptologic technician and member of JSOC’s Intelligence Support Activity.

• When he was deployed in the United States Army Special Operations Command in Virginia, he met and married her in December 2014 and had two children.
  

  An old picture of Joe Kent with his first wife, Shannon Smith, and their two children

• On 16 January 2019, Shannon died on duty in a bombing that took place in Manbij, Syria. Joe Kent quit his government job after the incident.

• After that, CNN, Breitbart News, and Fox News hired him as a columnist. He wrote articles against the war on terror.

• He then volunteered for Veterans for Trump and Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).

• In November 2019, Joe Kent talked about the cases of Gallagher and Chelsea Manning in a media interview and claimed that they were similar.

• During the 2021 United States House of Representatives election nominations, he applied as a Republican candidate to contest in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District.

• After that, he conducted many campaigns where he mentioned that Jaime Herrera Beutler voted against Donald Trump so that he could be charged for the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

• In 2020, in the Democratic presidential elections, Joe Kent voted for Bernie Sanders to support the Republicans in the presidential elections of that year.

• He follows a philosophy titled “inclusive populism” that works against discrimination.

• In 2020, Joe Kent accepted the false claims of fraud that he was charged with during the presidential elections.

• In February 2021, he said in the media that Trump failed to control the crowd during the January 6 United States Capitol attack. He also added the failed security planning during the event.

• In September 2021, Joe Kent joined the Justice for J6 rally. After the rally, he said in the media that protesters were treated like Iraqi civilians during the Iraq War.

• After that, he requested the state authorities to public the video recordings of the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

• He stated in one of his campaigns that he would support the Trump administration.

• In July 2021, he received the support of Steve Wynn and Peter Thiel. After that, he collected an amount of $366,000 for the elections.

• In September 2021, many of his rallies were attended by American president Donald Trump.
  

  Joe Kent posing with Donald Trump

• During his campaigns, he gained attention after appearing as regular guest on the news show Tucker Carlson Tonight, which aired on Fox News. He was inivited by Tucker Carlson.

• In September 2021, he, along with Matt Gaetz, led a rally in which they supported the idea of providing education vouchers to the students and tax deductions per child to the parents.

• That same year, Joe Kent criticised the government of United States for its failure in the nation building policies when the U.S. Army left Afghanistan.

• In January 2022, it was claimed in the media that people who did not get vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus were forcefully quarantined by the Washington State Board of Health. Joe Kent led a rally against the claims.

• In March 2022, Kent appeared as guest at an event organized by the Washington State Three Percenters, a right-wing militia organization in the US state of Washington.

• Earlier, Kent supported a national abortion ban. However, later, he started supporting states’ rights on the issue.

• In March 2022, Kent attracted a controversy when a white supremacist commentator, Nick Fuentes, claimed in one of his videos that Kent once told him that he loved Nick’s work. After that, Kent claimed that he never appreciated Nick’s work.

• Many news outlets then search the truth behind Nick’s claims but could not verify the same.

• After that, Joe Kent disagreed with Nick Fuentes on his various opinions related to race and religion.

• Fuentes then claimed that Joe Kent was not a conservative.

• Once, in an interview with a media house, Kent made a statement to Nick Fuentes. He said,
  

  American culture was “anti-white” and “anti-straight-white-male.”

• In April 2022, after the spread of the spread of SARS-CoV-2, he demanded an investigation of Anthony Fauci, an American physician-scientist and immunologist.

• He also urged the U.S. government to stop foreign entries.
  

  Joe Kent while delivering a speech

• During the vaccination campaigns in the U.S., he did not get vaccinated and claimed that the COVID-19 vaccines would work like an experimental gene therapy.

• In April 2022, at a conference in the Washington Marriott Marquis, Joe Kent spoke against providing army weapons and personnel to Ukraine, He claimed that it would start a war against Russia.

• He said that the appeals made by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Ukrainian cities, Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, were fair.

• He then mentioned the criticism by the American television show Tucker Carlson Tonight for supporting the Ukraine.

• After that, some Russian media news channels telecasted his comments on air.

• In July 2022, he made headlines when a person from the Proud Boys, an American far-right neo-fascist militant organisation worked as a consultant for Joe Kent . His campaign gave him a payment.

• Kent and Joey Gibson, a political activist, are political friends.

• Reportedly, his pictures with Greyson Arnold, Christian nationalist, once went viral on social media, which later his team denied.

• A media outlet reported in September 2022 claimed that Arnold and Kent had an interview.

• That same month, Joe Kent stated that Anthony Fauci should be charged with murder for his involvement in the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
• Joe Kent is a follower of Sam Francis, a paleoconservative writer. He often mentioned Sam’s name in many of his campaigns.

• Kent defeated his opponent Herrera Beutler in the United States House of Representatives elections in August 2022.

• Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat, defeated Kent and won the elections.
  

  Joe Kent and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez during a debate ahead of general election

• Gluesenkamp Perez talked about the problems related to schools, jobs, and abortions during her campaigns.

• Reportedly, her views were different from Joe Kent by which she attracted Republican votes.

• Kent received a huge defeat from Gluesenkamp in the elections. Kent was not admitting his defeat until December 2022.

• On 11 January 2023, he again filed his nomination to contest for Washington’s 3rd district elections.

• During the same year, Joe Kent married Heather Kaiser.

• In September 2023, he stated that the immoral strategies of former American President Joe Biden in Ukraine-Russia war fueled it so much that Ukraine could not manage it in the long run.

• Joe Kent claimed that the U.S. policies did not value the lives of Ukrainian civilians.

• He added that several soldiers, former workers, and students were loosing their lives in a war that Ukraine would never win.

• Kent said that many rounds of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine came to an end after the U.S. provided help to Ukraine in the war.

• Joe Kent stood against the replacement of Interstate Bridge, the tolls and light rail, during one of his 2024 campaign.

• When the U.S. military officials targeted the political members of Saddam Hussein, Kent questioned them.

• Once, during a media interview, Joe Kent claimed that he had read the book About Face (1990) by David Hackworth. The book condemned the top U.S. officials who planned the Vietnam War.

• After that, when President trump forgave the two Army officers Mathew Golsteyn and Clint Lorance, who were charged under military law, Kent supported Trump’s decision.

• President Trump received the support of Kent when Trump helped Edward R. Gallagher, a retired United States Navy SEAL, in Uniform Code of Military Justice crimes.

• In October 2024, various media polls showed Gluesenkamp Perez and Kent as competitors in a close race.

• During the same month, they visited KATU’s studio in Portland, Oregon, and participated in a live debate.
  

  Joe Kent, during a congressional election debate against Democratic Republic Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez, in Portland, Oregon, in October 2024

• Gluesenkamp Perez defeated Joe Kent and won the elections in November 2024.

• In February 2025, Kent started working as an acting chief of staff to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence.

  

  Joe Kent with Tulsi Gabbard

• During his tenure as an acting chief of staff, he once requested the National Intelligence Council to investigate any connections between the government of Venezuela and the Tren de Aragua, a gang of criminals.

• Later, no connections were found between Venezuela and Tren de Aragua. After that, Michael Collins, an acting chairman, was forced to do the analysis again when when a major American news outlet reported the internal results, which disagreed with President’s appealing of the Alien Enemies Act.

• Reportedly, Kent associated with a Signal group that leaked a U.S. government chat.

• In March 2026, Joe Kent claimed that the war between U.S.-Israeli and Iran was fake. He added that the war was not in the interests of the people the America. He mentioned that the U.S. had repeated the mistakes of the Iraq War.

• On 17 March 2026, he made headlines when he resigned from his position due to the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. In his resignation letter, he wrote,
  

  Could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.” Kent implied that the administration had lied about Iran posing an “imminent” threat, and he claimed Israel had lured the United States into a war that “serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”