#who is dan bongino

[blushmovies]

Podcaster and ex-Secret Service agent Dan Bongino will be FBI deputy director, Trump says

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[usanewscorner]

Who is Dan Bongino? Trump announces podcaster as FBI deputy director

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Dan Bongino, a conservative talk show host, will be the next deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Bongino will join Kash Patel, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as the new director of the FBI. Trump said Patel would appoint Bongino to the role, which does not require Senate confirmation.

In a social media post on Monday, Bongino praised FBI staff members as “dedicated people” who “deserve leadership that will back them up, protect their mission and ensure they can do their jobs.”

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[usanews24sworld]

Trump names podcaster Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director

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[supercatartisan]

Trump names right-wing commentator Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director

US President Donald Trump has appointed right-wing commentator Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI.

Trump posted on social media that Bongino was "a man of incredible love and passion for our Country" and would serve under newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel.

Bongino, 50, has worked for the New York police department and the Secret Service - as well as having been part of the protection detail for two presidents, George W Bush and Barack Obama.

He hosts a self-titled podcast whose Facebook posts often attract more attention than those of Fox News and CNN combined.

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[the-acid-pear]

I Wanna Be at the RNC is stuck on my fucking head and has been so all day long 😭😭😭

[darkeagleruins]

Dan Bongino is on target again- this time it’s about the drones. “They know exactly who owns these drones and why they’re in the sky, but they don’t want to tell you for a reason…the U.S. Government and the Deep Staters are involved”… @dbongino⁩ LISTEN.

[beardedmrbean]

FBI leadership is starting an investigation into the origins of the agency’s plan a decade ago to infiltrate the campaign of presidential candidate Donald Trump using two female undercover “honeypot” agents.

The off-the-books investigation, launched in 2015 by FBI Director James B. Comey, was revealed by an agency whistleblower in a protected disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee last year and first reported exclusively by The Washington Times in October.

In the intelligence community, a honeypot commonly refers to an undercover operative, usually a woman, who feigns sexual or romantic interest to obtain information from a target.

The whistleblower said two female FBI undercover employees infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff.

The Times has learned that the bureau, now led by Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is looking for those once-undercover employees under Mr. Comey’s direction.

The FBI declined to comment.

According to the whistleblower disclosure, which The Times reviewed, the investigation differed from Crossfire Hurricane, a later FBI counterintelligence operation that looked into never-proved allegations that the campaign was colluding with Russia.

The whistleblower said the early off-the-books criminal investigation targeted Mr. Trump and his staff.

Mr. Trump launched his presidential campaign on June 16, 2015, about a year before the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane.

The whistleblower agent “personally knew” that Mr. Comey ordered an FBI investigation into Mr. Trump and that Mr. Comey “personally directed it,” according to the disclosure.

The investigation did not appear to target a specific crime but was more of what agents would describe as a fishing expedition to find anything incriminating against Mr. Trump.

The whistleblower said the undercover operation was obscured from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, who investigated misconduct in the bureau’s probe of the Trump campaign.

“The case had no predicated foundation, so Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file in Sentinel or any other FBI system,” according to the whistleblower’s disclosure. “The FBI has multiple methods of protecting highly sensitive investigations, so Comey did not have a legitimate reason not to officially create an official investigation file or have a file number.”

The disclosure says the secret investigation may have indicated institutional bias at the FBI against Mr. Trump, though “it does not appear that any information about this investigation was turned over to Trump’s criminal defense counsels.”

The investigation was eventually closed because a major newspaper obtained a photograph of one of the undercovers and was about to publish it, but the FBI press office told the outlet that the photograph was an FBI informant who would be killed if the photograph was publicly released.

In fact, it was a photograph of the FBI undercover employee.

The FBI whistleblower employee noted in the disclosure that one of the undercovers agreed to be transferred to the CIA so she would not be available as a potential witness.

The other undercover employee was rewarded for her activities through a promotion in the bureau and is now a high-level FBI executive in a major field office.

The whistleblower employee observed one or more employees in the FBI being directed to never discuss the operation with anyone ever again, including other people involved in the 2016 Trump campaign infiltration operation.

The FBI employee making this disclosure took this admonishment as a direct threat to the employees who received it.

[saywhat-politics]

The pro-Trump podcaster and radio personality was named deputy director of the FBI, an agency he has said should be disbanded. 

Feb. 24, 2025, 5:44 PM MST

By Ben Goggin, Brandy Zadrozny, Nigel Chiwaya and Ken Dilanian

Dan Bongino, the conservative podcaster named deputy director of the FBI, has spent the past seven years publicly criticizing the agency he will now help run, pushing conspiracy theories about corrupt FBI leadership and agents who were out to get President Donald Trump. 

A survey of Bongino’s podcast transcripts by NBC News from 2017 to 2025 found that he made the FBI a regular target on his show, routinely claiming that the bureau colluded with the so-called deep state, an alleged shadowy network of entrenched federal and military operatives. Those themes figured heavily on “The Dan Bongino Show,” a syndicated radio show and daily podcast that is among the most popular in the U.S. 

Along the way, Bongino has gone from a relatively unknown conservative pundit to one of the most followed and recognizable pro-Trump voices in all of media, commanding an audience of millions across various platforms. 

“The FBI has totally and completely failed America,” Bongino said in a June 2024 episode of his podcast, a sentiment typical of his attacks on the bureau. “It kills me to have to tell you that you can’t trust these people, you cannot.”

[realtalkingpoints]

https://rumble.com/v59fpg4-whistleblowers-confirm-the-secret-service-is-hiding-a-big-secret-ep-2300-08.html

This is a MUST WATCH!!! episode of the Dan Bongino Podcast. If you don't know what the buzz is about Dan Bongino, this is why we never miss a podcast. This one really hits home. I tried to share the link above, but Tumblr doesn't play nice when trying to share from Rumble.com. So there is a link below that will hopefully work. Photo is a screen shot. Link below that. Must Watch... And Share/Re-blog.

Link to Dan Bongino Show: -> ( link to ep. 2300 )

If that doesn't work, you need to got to Rumble.com, search for the Dan Bongino Show, and watch episode 2300. Dan tells a story of his time in the Secret Service, and one of his coworkers from 20 years ago, who is now the lead on Trumps Secret Service detail.

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[blushmovies]

Trump appoint podcaster Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director

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[undergroundusa]

"The Air Force has removed some training courses to comply with Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Some of the removed courses included historical videos of the Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots. The problem may not be with the videos themselves, but that they were used in DEI coursework…"

There is a stark difference between DEI policy and advocacy instruction and actual history. In fact, removing historical teachings from the USAF curriculum goes against the very spirit of Trump's Executive Order: It is discriminatory.

Trump's order is extremely clear: Demographic preferences are not to be employed, and merit is supposed to be the basis for everything. Certainly, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women of WWII proved their merit, both making history.

So, whoever made this shallow-brained—or purposely deceitful—decision in the US Air Force hierarchy (and I would like to know the name of the charlatan who made the call to do this) doesn't deserve to be in a position of authority and should be relieved of command immediately, for they possess no common sense.

As Dan Bongino is fond of saying, "Cutesy time is over."

https://substack.com/profile/129788551-frank-salvato/note/c-88824346

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Gertz at MMFA:

The selection of right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino for a senior FBI role hammers home that President Donald Trump is eliminating the guardrails that prevented right-wing conspiracy theories becoming criminal prosecutions during his first term. It also shovels more dirt on the farcical idea that Trump and his allies want depoliticized law enforcement. A regular pattern played out over Trump’s first term as the president sought to wield federal law enforcement as an extension of his will. Right-wing conspiracy theorists, typically led by Trump adviser and Fox News host Sean Hannity, would offer bogus claims that Trump’s foes had committed crimes. Then Trump, an inveterate Fox viewer, would publicly or privately demand investigations and often get them. But the probes would ultimately fall apart without significant charges after Trump’s own appointees — Republicans who nonetheless evinced some semblance of independence and professionalism — figured out there was nothing to them.

Trump’s second-term selections are intended to eliminate the disruptions caused by appointees with a higher priority than carrying out the president’s whims. They are sycophants who are zealously loyal to the president and some either previously worked as his personal lawyers or have long public records of calling for criminal investigations of his foes.  Trump said on Sunday that Bongino, who embarked on a career as a right-wing media commentator after serving in the New York Police Department and U.S. Secret Service and losing several congressional campaigns, will serve as deputy director of the FBI. Bongino worked as a Fox contributor and host before leaving in 2023 to focus on his eponymous podcast, which streams on Rumble and airs on Westwood One radio stations. 

In announcing Bongino’s new role, Trump said the podcaster would help restore “Fairness” to the justice system. But Bongino is one of the last people you’d select for such a role if your intention was really to run a nonpartisan bureau: He is an inflammatory partisan who has declared that “owning the libs” is “my entire life right now” because they are “pure unadulterated evil" and has fawned over Trump as “an apex predator” and “the lion king.” Bongino gained influence and an audience during Trump’s first term specifically because of his willingness to issue florid denunciations of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. On his NRATV show and in frequent guest appearances on Fox (particularly on Trump’s beloved Fox & Friends and on Hannity’s show), Bongino described Mueller’s probe as “an obvious frame job and set-up” that is “designed to cover up for the misdeeds of the Obama administration” and called for the special counsel’s firing. 

[...] It’s unlikely Bongino will be hindered by the higher-ups Trump has installed. Kash Patel, the Trump-appointed FBI director, said in a 2023 interview that a second Trump term would target “the conspirators, not just in government but in the media” who had “lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.” The appendix of Patel’s 2023 book “names more than 50 current or former US officials that he claims are ‘members of the Executive Branch deep state,’ which he describes as a ‘dangerous threat to democracy,’” in what has been frequently referred to as an “enemies list.” At the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi previously parlayed frequent Fox appearances defending Trump into a post on his first impeachment legal defense team. Her acting deputy, Emil Bove, previously represented Trump in state and federal prosecutions.   Meanwhile, Ed Martin, who will oversee major cases in the District of Columbia as its acting U.S. attorney, “was an organizer in the ‘Stop The Steal’ movement that falsely claimed the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump” and then “worked as a defense attorney for some people charged in the January 6 riot.” 

Donald Trump taps far-right podcast host and 3x-failed Congressional candidate Dan Bongino to serve as deputy director for the FBI that is headed up by fellow far-right hack Kash Patel. The pick of Bongino for this role reinforces the politicization of the agency to serve its MAGA agenda.

[mojave-pete]

[uboat53]

You know, it's amazing how much Donald Trump projects his own faults onto everyone else. "[Harvey Weinstien’s] the only one I can think of, normally [Democrats] protect everybody."

And, yes, that's correct, Democrats didn't do a thing to protect Harvey Weinstien (a major donor) from prosecution. They also haven't done a thing to protect Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) who was just recently convicted of acting as an agent of the Egyptian government or Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) who was indicted earlier this year on charges of money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy. They didn't do a thing to protect Rep. Fattah, Rep. Wu, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr, Rep. Richardson, Rep. Brown, or William Mendoza (then Director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education) from their own legal issues, and that's just the ones I can find going back 2008.

You know who does protect everybody around him from the consequences of their own criminality and wrongdoing? Trump!

He pardoned Eliot Broidy, the Deputy Finance Chairman of the RNC, after he was convicted of illegally influencing the DoJ on behalf of the government of Malaysia, he pardoned Paul Manafort, his 2016 campaign manager, after he was convicted of tax and bank fraud, and he pardoned Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) after he was convicted of using campaign funds for personal use.

Trump doesn't care of the people around him break the law as long as they continue to pat his back and he genuinely cannot believe that Democrats do.