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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The uproar over DJT’s mishandling of the Epstein issue has nothing to do with MSM or DeepState. They are joining in ‘cause DJT’s betrayal of MAGA is like blood in the water to them.
The uproar is from sincere MAGA folks who wanted to believe that when DJT makes a promise he will keep it, and when he claims transparency there will at least be less murkiness.
This is a real hot issue ‘cause most MAGA folks really feel like much of the DeepState/commie trash in charge are an active threat to their own children — by design. Releasing all of the Epstein files for individual Americans to inspect on their own implies that at least some of the Gov’mt is thru with gaslighting.
DJT jumped into a hole and is telling us all to believe that he is not in a hole. No MAGA supporter is that dumb.
Interesting theory.
So is releasing information that you know is misleading
That's a really fast jump from "had reason to" to "you know it is in there". God help anyone if you're on their jury.
worth spending the next few years clearing the names of innocent people ?
So the easy and obvious solution is to not use those Biden Era files, and simply begin anew. It's rather common for a REAL investigator to start all over. Further, The Epstein Victim's Fund has already paid out $120m to over 150 claimants, whose stories have been vetted and verified and found to be worth nearly 7-figures each by a private organization that is very close to the actual situation. Use THEIR files as the basis, and do FRESH FBI investigations without any Biden psyops, using none of the information placed in the files before today.
If I can figure that out, maybe someone in the upper echelons of the FBI would be able to as well... assuming that they care about truth and the law and recovering a shred of the respect and reputation that they USED to have, but has been utterly destroyed in recent years.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Epstein files uproar puts spotlight on Dan Bongino , silent majority rising wrote: 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.
I read sources like The Hill to find out what the Dems are attempting, not for truth. The Hill, WAPO, NYT is the voice of the Deep STate and I read it to listen to their plans and gauge what might be next.
I don't believe Bongino is absent due to pouting. I like your suggestion that he's working on the new evidence re Patel.
I feel like we see 10% of what's going on and then some demand the right to direct how the Trump administration functions over at least 90%.
I personally think given that Trump made it back to office and has a history-making positive influence whether he's in or out of office, he has earned the right not to tell us, along with our enemies, what strategies are in play behind the scenes.
So why use them at all? Is the FBI too incompetent to start an investigation anew?
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1945844014617686162
Trumps approval RISES after Epstein drama. EDS sufferers are disappointed.
He looks like a gay bobble head.
Bongino is for real and trustworthy. He is a bit of a lose cannon and rough around the edges but I believe he is truthful.
It’s not really much of a jump.
Pajama Boy Author.
They almost shot his ear off, and tried to kill him numerous times, and tried to arrest him at least six times, take his wealth away and put him in jail for the rest of his life, hopefully (for them), a broken man who hangs himself in his jail cell, while all of his family is arrested and defunded “for the common good” as they see it. I hope Bongino was putting together charges on all of the Deep State Players. As far as trying to “goad” Trump into doing what they want, I don’t believe they can intimidate him any longer. That is why I think he is using their strategy against them and setting them up for the great fall.
He wants Ben Black to head up the DFC. Still not voted on. His father had to resign as CEO of Apollo because of Epstein and handed 62 million dollars to US Virgin Islands because of Epstein. The Senate Finance Committee is still trying to get documents from US Govt related to Leon Black in an investigation of tax evasion and money laundering.
Perhaps he wants this out of the way because of Ben Black. Although, I dont believe that is the prime reason.
The so-called Epstein client list has become what Alfred Hitchcock used to call the McGuffin.
He was inferring it was fairly meaningless in itself and merely a plot device.
The McGuffin was the thing which the protagonists and antagonists were fighting over.
And so it is with this “client” list.
The side trying to get their hands on the “client list” believe there is a shadow gubmint which is protecting evil actors in positions of wealth and power who are pedophiles and more than that intelligence communities who were using their evil actions as leverage against them in other words black mail.
Put me down in that column.
But I might be wrong.
I’m more than willing to be disabused of that notion.
That’s why both the folk saying the Epstein list is unimportant and those saying it isn’t important have a valid point.
It’s not this McGuffin, it’s something much, much bigger than that.
It’s moral authority and credibility which whatever amount of those gubmint ever had; has been squandered away by all the administrations going as far back as Eisenhower.
Trump’s justice department was as corrupt as any in American history through no fault of his own, until Merrick Garland came along and found ways to make it even more corrupt.
Trump is doing UNBELIEVABLE things mostly on his own with as little as help as can be expected from the Republican wing of the uniparty.
The problem is he has made this a bigger deal than it should have been.
Whether the decision to call case close nothing to see here was indefensible, the way it was mishandled was more indefensible.
The way Trump has mishandled the mishandling has done himself damage.
It appears that Patel and Bongino were led to believe that the case would be allowed to move along although I now think they were being strung along by whoever were the powers that ordered Blondi to put down the cased closed nothing to see here declaration.
But Trump has mishandled the mishandling by stepping out front and attempting to use all the political capital and goodwill he has built among MAGA to shield Blondi, Patel, and Bongino from publicly answering how they can explain the call of case closed nothing to see here with ALL their prior statements which will be used as receipts against them.
As it is now Blondi is in withdrawal as she has become more addicted to the camera than a Kardashian.
Bongino has evidently been placed in witness protection.
Eventually, Blondi, Patel, and Bongino will have to meet the press.
And all their public proclamations of transparency and openness will be put on trial.
And at that point most will see that the Epstein client list is just a McGuffin for something bigger.
Still a manufactured controversy. A distraction, the latest big deal. I can’t wait to see how it pans out.
Easy win, too, considering the fact that he built a multi-million $$$ entertainment company partially on the Epstein issue. All the times I listened to him discussing the issue sound a whole lot different from his new tone. He can go back to conservative talk, but I do believe his audience will have taken a huge hit. If I can't trust what he said about Epstein for all those years, I can't trust a damn thing he says.
Why not a powerpoint explanation, answering questions. He just had a couple days off. Just tell what you know and don’t know, cannot prove, and kick this to the ditch.
I trust that President Trump knows what he’s doing.
Who in Ben and Leon Black??
There is a butt pirate if there ever was one! GAAAAAAAAY boys in bondage. Pencil neck, goofy facial aspect and there is of course his “writing”. thanks Robert!
WAY too involved and complicated. Google Leon Black Epstein
Why is that important?
It means means they have had ample opportunity to sanitize the available documents of all Democrat involvement in the Epstein operation, including video evidence along with the documental evidence.
I think that may be what is actually transpiring, and why the release is being pulled back, for now at any rate.
No- it is NOT a stretch whatsoever. These are criminal leftover embeds hiding in their little world of creative destruction of our great Republic. They frankly do not deserve to remain in their posts or receive pensions or back pay.
Get rid of them. And uh, Bondi is doing just that with the occasional cortex federal judges sticking their .... into the subject already having been adjudicated by SCOTUS as not in jurisdiction for injunctions of any kind. So now they run with class action, filed by pervos like the Souther Poverty Law Center (250 million plus in offshore accounts supporting them btw). A bunch of loser fags and pervos situated in... Alabama of all places. Cause of course Southern Poverty equals black poverty to them... for numerous nit picking nothing grievances that get them sometimes settlements and often times— nationwide media press releases. They uh, live... well.
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