Dan Bongino is President Donald Trump’s choice for deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“Great news for Law Enforcement and American Justice,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our Country, has just been named the next DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI, by the man who will be the best ever Director, Kash Patel.”
Bongino began his career as a New York City police officer and then was in the U.S. Secret Service. He ran for Congress three times, never winning.
Bongino is a podcast host of the Dan Bongino Show on Rumble and is owner of the Bongino Report, a news site he launched after the Drudge Report was taken over by liberals. He hosted Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on Fox News until April 2023.
He will face confirmation from the US Senate, where Kash Patel was confirmed on a 51-49 vote.
“While Patel has experience as a lawyer and high-ranking official in federal intelligence agencies during Trump’s first term, Bongino has practical law enforcement experience as a former police officer and Secret Service agent. Both have excoriated the FBI over its role in facilitating the investigations Trump has faced since 2017, including submitting faulty foreign intelligence court applications in the Trump-Russia investigation,” wrote Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics.
“On his podcast, Bongino has called the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022 ‘a freakin’ disgrace’ and ‘some third-world garbage,’ and has repeatedly slammed the FBI’s role in investigating the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riots along with the FBI raids and arrests of participants. Bongino and Patel were also at the forefront of Trump’s 2020 election fraud claims,” she reported.
Bongino often speaks about the Deep State and how they plotted to take out Tump. In 2016, he wrote about the FBI spying on Trump’s campaign in his book, “Spygate.”
