Posted on 12/20/2025 8:57:27 PM PST by Red Badger
Deputy Director Dan Bongino is leaving the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in early 2026, as he announced in a post on X, and President Donald Trump has revealed what the seeming cause of that decision to leave is, something he revealed when praising Bongino and thanking him for his time in the position.
As background, Bongino’s decision to leave came after media reports revealed that his departure was widely expected at the Bureau after he had cleaned out his office and desk, with early reports saying that he was weighing departure, and it then quickly emerged that he would be leaving for good.
Many suspected, as those reports began to surface, that Bongino is leaving because he is frustrated with the administration’s handling of a number of issues regarding the Department of Justice and FBI, particularly the slow rollout of the Epstein files and like matters of friction with AG Bondi and Kash Patel.
Bongino didn’t get into that in his post announcing his decision to depart the leadership role, and instead posted vague generalities. Beginning, he thanked the Administration members with whom he had been involved, saying, “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January. I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.”
Continuing, he thanked the Americans who elected Trump to office and thus got him in his position, saying, “Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. God bless America, and all those who defend Her. 🇺🇸”
In any case, speaking about Deputy Director Bongino’s decision to leave the FBI when speaking to the media on the tarmac near Marine One, the presidential helicopter, President Trump thanked Bongino and explained, “Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show.”...
While some were hostile towards Bongino over his decision to leave, most MAGA commentators were broadly positive towards him. Benny Johnson, for example, wrote, “Dan Bongino was rich, successful and powerful. Dan had the biggest show in America and ran a media empire. When Trump asked, Dan left everything behind for a mission most people thought impossible: fixing the FBI. It was one of the most selfless acts in modern political history.”
Benny continued, “The FBI job is thankless. Perhaps impossible. The FBI had become a fortress for corruption, a political weapon, and a threat to the people it was sworn to protect. Dan put his head down and got to work. Lots of bad people fired. Lots of bad guys behind bars. Reform and exposure of corruption.”
Concluding, he said, “Eventually, time away from your family will break you. Every good father and husband knows this. Dan is choosing his family. Returning to his show. The FBI may well need to be rebuilt from the ground up. At least Dan Bongino was in the arena. Thanks for you service @dbongino”
Except when it's not.
If Dan Bongino has a conflict with Bondi and Patel then they should leave and he should take over. The apparent differences are over the slow, gentle approach of prosecuting the guilty Dems and putting them in prison where they belong.
Latitia James, Comey and the rest are laughing at us for being so gullible now.
The folks at home are really, really impatient with that.
As Glenn Beck has said to guests who are in Congress: “If the American people see that the guilty in DC continuously get away with everything and then are also disappointed to see nothing comes of the Trump DOJ work, then they will lose all trust in working in the system of justice that is not equal for all.”
Yes, all the baseball and football managers and coaches who say “I want to spend more time with my family” then leave within moments of the awaited phone call someday later that they are wanted at a new job.
“I am outta here.”
This whole lie for the FBIis bad news.Maybe Bongino should just be with family and take a nice sabbatical after the cancer, the podcast, Trump bsttkes, FBI and back again? That is a mighty whirlwind and a stack of NDA’s.
Unless you can dislodge certain key people, there is a lot that cant be fixed. It will just take time.
Judging how many trafficked children were found, I think he probably did a good job.
LOL
Most of these folks put their family or religion on the back burner many years ago.
Sacrifices have to be made if you want to move up.
Dan and his wife are very close. She was stuck in Florida and he was living on a military base in DC along with Kash Patel due to death threats. He got sick of it and likely disillusioned from realising that the FBI is unfixable without dismantling it and starting over. I don’t blame him.
By law Latitia James and Comey must be prosecuted where the crimes occurred. So, that is DC and Manhattan. It is not the FBI’s fault that and grand juries/juries refuse to indict and/or convict.
The grand juries/juries in DC are famous for letting democrats go and convicting republicans. That is what happens in a city that votes 95% democrat.
The Wash Post did a series of articles several years ago on juries who refused to convict blatant and obvious killers. The paper interviewed jurors who all said, we know they are guilty, but we don’t want to see any more black people in jail. There is absolutely nothing any prosecutor can do about that.
It was clear back in August that Dan B. was deeply dissatisfied with the situation in the FBI. “Either Pam Bondi leaves. or I do!”. Somehow, Trump was able to convince Bongino to stay on anyway. But perhaps nothing has really changed. Anyone working in the Department of Justice is under tremendous pressure at all times and for all manner of reasons. He’s a good man. A sincere patriot. Better that he leaves now, and find more productive venues of fulfillment.
Thank you !
Sounds grim.
What happened to that Dr. Stephen Covey stuff in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?
Supposed to stop confusing urgent but unimportant things that distract you. Otherwise the truly important things are neglected and you get in trouble.
“Stephen Covey’s key precept for prioritizing is Habit 3: Put First Things First, using a Time Management Matrix to focus on Important but Not Urgent (Quadrant II) tasks like planning, relationship-building, and prevention, rather than getting stuck reacting to urgent, often unimportant, demands (Quadrant III). Effective people schedule priorities (big rocks) and learn to say “no” to distractions, proactively working on long-term goals to prevent crises and achieve greater control and fulfillment.”
Excellent points.
They still want to balance out things like the idiot OJ jurors who said now we get our chance to let a guilty guy go free after all the lynchings of innocent people in the 1800s.
Sort of stuck on stupid.
I’m sure people will rush to get their narratives out about his actual achievements or failures that will serve their own purposes.
Bongino and his family didn’t owe the administration four years, and political appointees flame out or move on to different roles all the time. The fact his family stayed in Florida probably hinted early that he was always going to leave before the term was up, maybe returning to radio for the midterms was always part of the plan.
He lent a hand at the beginning of the administration and probably did some good for a huge organization deeply stricken by partisan politics.
Maybe his role as a radio host is more important to the administration as the midterms heat up than having a prominent media personality stuck in organizational meetings and drafting memos (someone has to work on electing Republicans to Congress, the GOP sure isn’t putting much work into it and they’re unlikely to start.)
>> I quit due to serious disagreements with other people in the organization, but I prefer not to air the dirty laundry in public.
If that’s the case, that’s to Bongino’s credit.
>> I don’t blame him.
I’m with you; I don’t blame him either.
>> people will rush to get their narratives out about his actual achievements or failures that will serve their own purposes.
&etc.
Good post.
Horse puckey...
He’s leaving because he has more important things in his life to do...
De-corrupting the FBI will be a 10-year job...
A thankless job at that...
DJT will replace him with an ass-kicking, raging personality who will get the FBI started in the right direction really quick...
Maybe cut 4-5 years off the reconstruction schedule...
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