Posted on 07/17/2025 6:55:59 AM PDT by RandFan
Public uproar and internal fighting in the Trump administration over the handling of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has put a spotlight on FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and his importance to members of President Trump’s base.
Bongino has been at the center of debate over the Epstein files after the Justice Department essentially closed the case in a joint memo with the FBI. The deputy FBI director has clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the issue and reportedly weighed resigning.
The outrage on the right over the prospect of Bongino exiting underscored both his importance to the base and how central he had been to fueling the controversies and conspiracy theories that animate many Trump backers.
Sources close to the White House told The Hill that members of the MAGA movement view Bongino as one of their own. He has built a following over the past decade, and is considered a true outsider with a finger on the pulse of the base who was appointed to a position of power to act on issues they care about, including the Epstein documents.
“Dan is a brand of MAGA that is fiercely loyal to the president. But he’s also somebody who has made a heck of a media career going into depth about issues that the base cares about, whether it be things like Epstein or the assassination attempt at Butler,” said one source close to the White House.
“He is considered a trusted voice,” the source added. “I think this is someone who is honored to serve the Trump administration, but also put his brand on the line when it came to, ‘We’re going to get to the bottom of Epstein.’”
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Sounds like ‘The Machine’ is now focusing on ‘picking off’ Bongino.
I like Dan Bongino 🔥
Yep, Bongino is now the target 🎯
sheesh, must be a slow news day if this is the new media angle to attack Trump, Bongino et al.
They want a resignation. Badly!
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Trump hater.
Trump is behaving badly but we still love him.
The fbi and Biden admin both had reasons to alter the information in the Epstein files (if there ever was anything there in the first place). So is releasing information that you know is misleading worth spending the next few years clearing the names of innocent people ? We still have people who think Trump was a Russian agent
He looks gay.
There is a multitude of different opinions on releasing these files from prosecution on one side and the other side protecting the innocent, this will never be reconciled as long as we live.
However, if there were any government employees involved (on our tax dollars elected or appointed) and they’re not dead yet I want them prosecuted and die in federal prison, let’s start there.
There has to be something there that President Trump has decided will do more damage than taking flack for not releasing the list.
Then again, maybe they are holding it for leverage.
Or maybe not.
Maybe there is no there there....
(Personally I opt for the damage theory).
It’s the Russian Collusion Hoax, Part 2. The fakes news mafia will gin up ANYTHING to stir the pot against President Trump.
Yep.
If liberals leave the Whitehouse removing keys to the key board, if they stay in positions designed to cause the next president to fail, if they are willing to set up a past president about keeping records they gave to him, if they investigate a hoax with a special counsel to keep Trump from having power, if they impeach him twice over made up charges, then is it really a stretch to assume they doctored the Epstein documents?
Our sources are now “The Hill”, BBC, Washington Post, NYT? I wonder if the Administration is setting them all up. Bongino might not have been absent from the office because he was pouting. He might have been working on the new evidence that Patel was describing, as well as preparing to become more aggressive. Truth is, none of us know a damn thing. Nothing. We have a lot of wind blowing from here, but really there is so much happening behind the scenes that we are clueless. I think that it will all become apparent, one way or the other, at a time of the Administration’s choosing. Not at the time of the Democrats or Media’s choosing.
Creepy.
Any of you who consider loyalty more important than integrity, further consider the tribal, blind loyalty of democrats.
Every single democrat senator voted No—many lawyers—after Starr clearly proved perjury and obstruction of justice.
>But impeachment is a political process
Yes. I have almost talked myself out of my position.
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