Deputy FBI Director Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid Epstein files fallout

CNN ^ | July 11, 2025 | Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez

[larrytown]

Yes, because stomping off in a huff really does solve problems.

[dragnet2]

Epstein?

Where are all the indictments, charges, arrests of former and current top government officials who ripped off the tax payers of tens of hundreds of billions?

Are we all supposed to forget what they all did?

[Wallace T.]

The use of the term of “radical right” is characteristic of leftists in the legacy media, who regard anyone to the right of Mitt Romney as an extremist.

[dragnet2]

Hogwash. If you’re not on the radical right side by now, you’re not paying attention to anything.

[9YearLurker]

Mayor Bass is a raving communist: “The issue is never the issue”.

[FES0844]

His wife is probably encouraging him to do just that.

[Alberta's Child]

Bongino's problem is that he had previously made a career as a TV/radio/podcast clown who could say all kinds of outlandish things on the air without being held accountable.

I have no idea what made anyone think this guy was suitable for a senior FBI leadership post.

[central_va]

The mass deportations are not continuing. The pace is SLOWER than Obama’s deportation rate.

[FenwickBabbitt]

I’m not using the term radical like the media inaccurately does; I mean it in its more literal usage. Conservatives want to conserve what is already there and make it work better; radicals often hate what is already there and they want radical change instead. That’s the distinction I’m trying to make here: the ones that want Trump to be a standard president working within the system for significant but constructive change and who largely trust him versus the ones that want Trump to be a revolutionary who will help them burn the whole system down because they don’t believe in any of it or anyone in authority, including Trump.

The recent attacks against Trump from the rightwing radicals do sound eerily similar to the attacks from the radical left, not because they have similar worldviews but because they have attitudes towards authority, government, trust, need for extreme change, lack of concern for the disruptions turning everything upside-down would cause, etc.

[JohnBovenmyer]

All the media hype on what active deportations are occurring likely is increasing the rate of self deportations. At least some evidence self ones are sizable. OBBB just now increased resources for the active ones. And putting a halt to new intakes has been huge.

[4Liberty]

https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1943723541251125605

[Jim Noble]

I’m more interested in who helped him in setting it up? Who provided his financial backing? Who was it intended to benefit?

Well, I don't know - but whoever they are, they can command the President and the Attorney General of the United States.

[Flaming Conservative]

Personally, I wish he had been made head of the Secret Service, but maybe he wanted the deputy FBI spot.

[captmar-vell]

The only answer that makes sense for me is that Epstein (like Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine’s father) is Mossad and running a honeypot influence operation with shared Western intelligence.

If so, and with all the ridiculous events surrounding the prison cell death. It leads a reasonable mind to consider if he’s even dead at all.

Next, we see Netanyahu visit DC, then days later much of the the Epstein narrative somehow appear to reverse and Ghislaine is now even harping for a pardon. Sure, nothing to see here folks.

[dragnet2]

By the way, it's not radical right. They are tiny, they're the fringe. There is fringe in every camp. Far right would be a much more accurate term. See, the vast majority of the far right do not loot liquor stores, hurt innocent people, burn down their towns, or try to assassinate the president.

That said, I'd guess the American hating Communist are counting on people remaining nice, polite, compliant, and stay in the middle of the road, under their wheels.

To clarify my comment regarding "If one is not far right they're not paying attention", this is considering recent and current historic events. Events such as sedation, assassination, widespread Democrat violence in the streets, leftist government officials ignoring the laws, election fraud, radical judges, attempts to overthrow the president etc.

[Vermont Lt]

Because if your bosses are lying to you, it shows a lack of confidence. I wouldn’t work for a liar. Would you?

[dpetty121263]

Can you say “COVERUP”...

[FreeReign]

The mass deportations are not continuing. The pace is SLOWER than Obama’s deportation rate.

Really?

Looks like Obama's ICE Deportation rate went down every year from about 600 per day in 2009, to about 180 per day in 2016(if my math is correct). That's downright puny.

I thought Trump wanted 3000 a day and with the BBB he's hiring 10,000 more deportation agents.

[Mouton]

I was surprised Ingraham went for 20 minutes on this issue and was anti the big lie from the admin on the issue. When you lose her on an issue, it is meaningful.

I think Bongino may have outed himself as the author of that memo that Axios let out. If so, he will be gone by Monday.
While he is right that the info needs get out, Trump does not want anyone in the tent pissing in the tent.

Bondi given how she has played this so far is hanging by a thread IMO. She has dug herself into a hole with Wednesday flabbergasting explanation. Even Fenton said on the one hand she is saying there is no list or releasable material and the DOJ is representing to the court in Fenton’s FOIA case that they are still sifting through info before releasing it. Someone told her there will be no so she is holding a grenade with the pin out now.

What a mess.

[fr_freak]

I prefer a fighter and not a quitter. I’m not questioning his manhood, but be a man and fight for what is right.

The Deep State is a vicious, evil monster capable of devouring any and all in its path, and Bongino and the others just spent the last number of months looking that monster right in the eyes. I suspect that very few men with anything to lose would be able to stand before it without flinching.