Posted on 03/17/2025 9:04:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
From his wildly popular podcast to the No. 2 post at the F.B.I., Dan Bongino joins Kash Patel, President Trump’s former election surrogate, to lead the agency at a turning point.
In the closing minutes of his podcast, the right-wing provocateur Dan Bongino made a promise. Joining the F.B.I. as its deputy director, he acknowledged, would require a stark change in approach after years of making his name as a pugilistic pundit.
“I have to stay out of the political space because it’s the right thing to do and it’s the rules,” he said during his last episode on Friday. He added, “I’m not going there to be some partisan.”
His arrival on Monday as the F.B.I.’s second in command will test that promise, cementing a major shift at the nation’s premier law enforcement agency, where he will join its director, Kash Patel, in overseeing a bureau of about 38,000 people. It puts two staunch Trump loyalists in charge of an agency long known for its tradition of independence. Collectively, they have the least leadership experience of any pair overseeing the F.B.I. since its founding more than a century ago.
Already, Mr. Patel has raised eyebrows. He has reversed course on a pledge to install a veteran agent as his No. 2 and works out with a personal trainer inside the F.B.I. He has swiftly moved to restructure the bureau, pushing to decentralize the command structure and reassign many at its headquarters. He quickly established a ballooning presence for his F.B.I. director account on social media, shooting down a wobbly theory in the right-wing media, which prompted a slew of stories and some astonishment.
In selecting Mr. Bongino, whose experience in law enforcement dates from years ago when he served as a police officer and Secret Service agent, Mr. Patel is...
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The NYT, I think, wanted this headline to be terrifying.
I find it awesome and exhilerating! ✊!✊!✊!
They BETTER DEMAND that the 18 SS agents that are protecting the criminal HUNTER BIDEN in South Africa come back to the States...PRONTO!
Typical hit piece. Nothing to see here.
Laughable if anyone still believes that. LOL
Remember all the stories about Biden and Obama loyalists from the NY Times.
Oh noes!!!!!! Trump loyalists!
bkmk
Honestly, Bongino to FBI is almost as bad as when Trump tried to put that putz Matt Gaetz to DOJ. 4 years as a beat cop in New York and 11 years as a Secret Service Agent whose biggest case was a car rental fraud scheme that resulted in two people being indicted, in no way qualifies you to run the day to day operations of a 38,000 employee agency. I like Dan’s passion. But he is just not intellectually capably or experienced enough for this job.
So far there haven’t been enough firings at the FBI. I hope that changes. The agency is still filled with Obama/Holder moles.
They so want another Ivy League, NYC lawyer in charge.
NYT lunacy. 🙄 How in hell could Kash be considered and election 'surrogate'?
Run, bitches. Justice is coming.
I feel fine with this statement. I agree with it. When you have principles and values you don't need to take a poll or get a memo from party leadership to tell you how to respond to situations.
Five thousand FBI employees were persecuting J6ers.
Each and every one of them must be fired.
They can put “I was just following orders” on their resume.
The remaining FBI employees will then have a full understanding that their job is to serve the American public not oppress them.
See my tagline.
15 impeccable years in law enforcement vs corrupt tin horn ambulance chasing political hack rabid democrat partisan lawyers who preceded him.
Obama “loyalists “ buy bye
>>an agency long known for its tradition of independence.
That right there is funny, I don’t care who ya are...
Bongino is number 2, not the leader. Get your facts straight before you post.
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