https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/fbi-deputy-director-dan-bongino-leave-post-january-rcna249789Dan Bongino, a former conservative podcaster who became the No. 2 official at the FBI under the Trump administration, announced Wednesday that he is leaving the bureau next month."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. Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you," he wrote in a post on X.Trump appeared to confirm Bongino's departure earlier Wednesday when asked by a reporter about Bongino's future as deputy director at the bureau."Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show," Trump said.The president tapped Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer, for the post in February.NBC News previously reported that Bongino considered resigning in July after the FBI and Justice Department issued a joint memo saying they had completed an "exhaustive" review of investigative files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and that no other people would be charged in the case and the agencies would not be releasing any more information.Sources told NBC News at the time that Bongino got into a heated argument with Attorney General Pam Bondi after the release of the memo, which had sparked outrage from some Trump supporters.Before joining the administration, Bongino hosted a podcast where he alleged there had been a massive coverup involving the Epstein files.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche pushed back on reports at the time that Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel had been upset about the memo, writing in a post on X, “All of us signed off on the contents of the memo and the conclusions stated in the memo. The suggestion by anyone that there was any daylight between the FBI and DOJ leadership on this memo’s composition and release is patently false.”Bongino did not return to work for at least one day after the argument with Bondi, but ultimately stayed.The White House announced in August that Andrew Bailey, then the Missouri attorney general, was being brought in as “co-deputy director” of the FBI.Earlier this month, Bondi credited Bongino for his work in helping to identify and bring charges against a suspect in the long-stalled investigation into pipe bombs that were found near Democratic National Committee headquarters and Republican National Committee headquarters on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, the day a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.“This case languished. It sat there for four years, collecting dust. No one did anything to solve this and right when Kash Patel and Dan Bongino came in, Dan said to me, Dan said to all of us, ‘I’m going to solve this case,’” Bondi told “Fox & Friends.” “He put a new team on it” and they solved the case, she said, calling it “great police work.”The suspect, Brian Cole Jr., has pleaded not guilty.Bongino said on the day Cole was charged that he’d been determined to track down the person responsible.“You’re not going to walk into our capital city, put down two explosive devices and walk off in the sunset,” Bongino said. “Not going to happen — we were going to track this person to the end of the Earth. There was no way he was getting away.”In a 2024 episode of his podcast, Bongino had claimed that the pipe bomb was an “inside job” to stop Trump.“This was a setup. I have zero doubt,” he said last year.
>>1466610Thank you for your service! You can expect your various pardons in the mail
>>1466610First domino?
>>1466622First plague rat to jump off the sinking ship
>>1466622he's a covert agent acting as an influencer to gather intel anon haven't you seen spy movies>>1466627flying ship you mean
Dude's gonna get death threats for the rest of his life from people that think he ran cover for a rapist all because he took a job he wasn't qualified for to be an attention whore and also he ran cover for a rapist.
>>1466634Maybe he should have thought of that before he ran cover for a rapist
>>1466610Everyones bailing at the start of 2026 because thats when "Trumps Recession™®©" will real start getting bad.Great. Now do Kashyap Pramod Patel, the foreigner in charge of the FBI.
>>1466610He's bailing because he knows Patel is going to likely get the "He's fired and I didn't even know him" treatment from Trump because they fucked up and let the Brown University shooter get away, along with the impending Epstein Files release.
>>1466985Even if I were a Trump supporter I struggle to think how I could support Kash Patel outside of blind, mindless loyalty to Trump.Putting aside his obsession with optics over substance, his prima donna behavior while on the job, and his questionable relationship with his "girlfriend", he seems to be actively hindering investigations he's being put on by Trump.
>>1466989It's been 5 days since the Brown University shooting and the shooter still hasn't been caught. I'm pretty sure this is the longest a school shooter in the US has ever gone without being captured or killed following a shooting, and it's entirely because Patel fucking cancelled the manhunt early because they jumped on a subject only for it to turn out "whoops, wrong guy" and had to restart it after the shooter got about 24 hours of additional lead time. It's fucking embarrassing.
>>1466985>>1466985>>1466989>>1467006You'd think he would have been fired after he totally shit the bed on the rightoid who killed Charlie Kirk. He would still at large if his fellow republican family didn't sell him out.
>>1467011Hey then he at least had the ability to claim "Well we WOULD have gotten him". Now they aren't lucky enough to get a parent turning the guy in and they're fucking screwed because they wasted the all-important immediate aftermath time on false leads. Fucking shooter could be out of the country by now.
I honestly wonder if they've fallen for the "AI can do everything" meme and have spent all their investigative time feeding data into Palantir or some shit and of course it doesn't work.
>>1467048Holy shit I didn't even think about that. They're so fucking inept it's entirely possible.
>>1467053>oh great ai gods, we've thrown $5m more taxpayer dollars into your endless gaping bubble, show us pathetic mortals who committed this crime!>...*ding* this person is krishnav poojunbirahjarajarahja, a pakistan national currently in prison in france for raping three toddlers>what, no, that can't be right>...oh, you're right, it can't be him... this person is oprah winfrey>uhh....>my apologies, this person is not registered in the all-seeing eye of sauron database, please try different inputs or come back laterYeah, that sounds like the US government at this point.
>>1467048RFK did get busted using ChatGPT to generate Health Department policy a few months back
>>1467048>shill AI as if it's going to cure cancer>everybody hops aboard the AI train thinking its the new internet boom>create infrastructure for data collection on a massive scale>surprise: it's literally only being used to spy on people >technocratic elites use new social credit score to find out how many times you've criticized Israel to keep you from steady employment
>>1467048>>1467053>https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2002505416677470227Holy fucking shit you were right.
>>1467085Hey, now. It’s also being used by college students cheating their ways to degrees
