Posted on 03/24/2025 4:29:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
In a resurfaced video drawn attention to on X (formerly Twitter) in the wake of President Trump announcing his nomination to the position of Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), since-confirmed Deputy Director Dan Bongino, just a podcaster and FNC personality at the time of the clip, called for all the FBI agents involved in the stunning raid on Mar-a-Lago to be fired.
The interview from which the resurfaced clip came occurred on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News Channel in the wake of the FBI’s stunning raid on then-former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on August 8, 2022. In the interview, Bongino sounded off on the FBI’s North Korea-style tactics, alleging that they were perverting ideas about criminal justice long held in America. Bongino’s interview with Hannity on the matter occurred just days after the raid.
Beginning the clip, Bongino contrasted the seal-like clapping of the American media for the raid with Pravda, the Soviet propaganda outlet, claiming that the American media is somehow worse. As he put it, “How many freaking times are we gonna let the FBI interfere in an election? I mean, this is supposed to be a constitutional republic. I’m not crazy, right? Like, this is supposed to be a representative democracy. Banana Republic … we’re beyond a banana republic, we’re into like tin pot dictator, Third World style. This is embarrassing. At least Pravda didn’t pretend to be anything but state apparatchiks. ”
Continuing, the former Secret Service agent who is now the number 2 man at the FBI declared that everyone involved with the raid should be fired, from the reception to the top-level management. He said, “And then listen, I’ve been with you for a while. I work with a lot of decent guys. I’m done with the “rank-and-file” stuff, too. I’m done with it. If you took part in this, anyone who took part in this, anyone, I don’t care who you are, an analyst or an upper-level manager, the next president who comes in office, they should Schedule F as many people as they can in the federal government and fire every single person involved in this. Everyone. The receptionist in the FBI office who took a call on this should be fired. We are not a Third World republic, supposedly.”
Getting to his point about North Korea and the justice system, Bongino explained that Americans used to have very different ideas of crime and punishment than dictatorships, but then-President Biden and his FBI goons were letting the mask drop by acting like communist thugs. As he put it, “Sean, the difference between us and Kim Jong Un, right, is that we investigate crimes, and then we look for people. We don’t investigate people, and then look for crimes.”
Emphasizing that point, Bongino noted that the raid on Trump looks much more like the FBI in search of a crime than it trying to find who was responsible for one it already knew existed, saying, “That is exactly what’s going on. How many times are they going to investigate Donald Trump for how many different things before the American people wake up and realize this isn’t an investigation of a crime in search of a person, but a person in search of a crime.”
Concluding, Bongino noted that he had left his job in federal law enforcement because he disagreed with what was going on within it, so he has no patience for those making the “they were jsut doing their jobs” argument. Beginning that epic takedown of a concluding, Bongino said, “And let me just add, you know, one last thing on this, folks. You know, I left my job, so no one’s going to lecture me, ‘Oh, Dan, what would you do if you just…’ There’s no more, ‘We’re just doing our job.’ You swore an oath to the Constitution! Have some balls, man!”
He added, on that same point, “I left my job because I couldn’t take what was going on. I gave up my pension and everything because something else mattered. You’re not going to lecture me on anything if you were involved in this constitutional abomination to our constitutional republic. You don’t deserve your job today, and you will get no backing from me or anybody I know in the conservative movement going forward. You flush your credibility down the toilet.”
Drawing attention to the old clip in a post on February 22, 2025, conservative podcaster and X personality Benny Johnson wrote, “🔥🔥THROWBACK: Newly appointed Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino going full savage calling to axe every last fed involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid.” Watch the clip here:
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Cannot agree more. Boasting of one's intentions creates great vulnerability.
100% no brainer. And find a way to take away their pensions and/or other benefits. Although the real solution is to put them in jail for a while.
So, do it. If you cannot, why are you in that office?
WUT is this, another Admin scam? Where are the perp walks?
“With an F-Bomb every other sentence? No thanks.”
Doesn’t bother me. (I’m the kid of an ultra conservative preacher.) He is careful to not take the Lord’s name in vain. where there’s no wiggle room (IMO). If he does say, “God”, etc., it’s not as an expletive, but in context of religion. He literally is referring to God or, as he says, “My Lord ad Savior, Jesus Christ”.
All the other stuff is just words which will be common in polite society in 25 years. like some of our current vernacular has morphed from 25 year ago.
Listening to shows about dining out or menus... I rather poke a hot nail in my eye.
Being a former Marine, I didn’t even notice..............
I'm good with that.
But…but…but, Zey ver chust followink orders!
FBI agents proved to be involved in the prosecution of Trump should have their trigger fingers amputated.
Rush Limbaugh managed to broadcast effectively for 25 years without publicly using any of what used to be called the seven dirty words. Neither did Johnny Carson or Jay Leno on late night TV. It is disgusting that those who supposedly support God, family, and country are as foul mouthed as anyone on the Left.
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#1. He's the DEPUTY director...not the Director or Acting Director.
#2 He's been in the building less than 30 days.
WTF is wrong with you?
“...those who abused their power should go[ to prison].”
I can tell Y'All to just look in the Corvette THAT'S IN THE UNLOCKED GARAGE !!!
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It is not, no.
That’s nice.
Determining what is “foul” is subjective.
People say “gee” all the time. It would’ve resulted in my mouth being washed out with soap, and some pops on my butt.
Sadly it seems to be required today or people don't think you are serious. Joe Rogan being a prime example. We have come a long way from that 1938 line from Clark Gable, "Frankly Scarlet I don't give a damn."
Please read. Dan Bongino said this in 2022 after the raid. On his show.
If you work for an agency like the FBI, you obey the orders you receive. Short of murder or clear rights violations, you do what you’re told.
Now if you participated in spreading classified documents out on the floor so as to appear to be a security breach, that’s different.
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