FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino weighed in after Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at several locations across the greater Los Angeles area erupted into clashes — some of them violent — between federal agents and protesters.
After the FBI had to be called in on at least one such confrontation on Friday, Bongino made it clear in a post on X that federal agents would not be deterred from doing their jobs — and he promised that anyone who attempted to interfere with them doing their jobs would face consequences.
&#8220;The Right to assemble and protest does not include a license to attack law enforcement officers, or to impede and obstruct our lawful immigration operations,&#8221; Bongino said. &#8220;We are thoroughly reviewing the evidence from yesterday’s incident in Los Angeles and we are working with the US Attorney’s Office to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice. The days of chaos ruling the streets are over. Either obey the law, or go to jail, there’s no third option.&#8221;
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The Right to assemble and protest does not include a license to attack law enforcement officers, or to impede and obstruct our lawful immigration operations. 
We are thoroughly reviewing the evidence from yesterday’s incident in Los Angeles and we are working with the US…
— Dan Bongino (@FBIDDBongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1931379818135773268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Bongino followed that with a second post confirming that some of those who had attempted to disrupt the ICE raids on Friday had already been arrested.
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&#8220;And yes, multiple arrests have already been made for obstructing our operations. More are coming. We are pouring through the videos for more perpetrators,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You bring chaos, and we’ll bring handcuffs. Law and order will prevail.&#8221;
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And yes, multiple arrests have already been made for obstructing our operations. 
More are coming. We are pouring through the videos for more perpetrators. 
You bring chaos, and we’ll bring handcuffs. Law and order will prevail. <a href="https://t.co/ENja0zWKDn">https://t.co/ENja0zWKDn</a>
— Dan Bongino (@FBIDDBongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1931418578944696533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And the arrests continued on Saturday, as Fox LA reporter Matthew Seedorff shared video of protesters clashing with ICE agents at what turned out to be a staging area for operations near Paramount, California.
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A possible immigration raid is taking place in Paramount, CA. We’ve seen at least 2 protesters get arrested so far for blocking or pushing members of law enforcement. <a href="https://t.co/yhQ0vJHNS9">pic.twitter.com/yhQ0vJHNS9</a>
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattSeedorff/status/1931405223639289910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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UPDATE: More arrests are being made in Paramount, CA. A source tells me this wasn’t an immigration raid, but a staging area. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LosAngeles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/California?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#California</a> <a href="https://t.co/nyJThz0duT">pic.twitter.com/nyJThz0duT</a>
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattSeedorff/status/1931421803932721351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin clarified the situation, noting that the raids were specifically targeting illegal aliens who already had active deportation orders or had committed other crimes.
&#8220;NEW: Per federal sources, despite local claims, there was no ICE &#8216;raid&#8217; at a Home Depot in LA today. DHS has a nearby office in Paramount that they are using as a staging area. Protesters found it and began gathering. ICE will conduct targeted enforcement around LA today, serving criminal judicial warrants and enforcing final orders of removal/deportation orders. CBP and Border Patrol have been brought in to provide security and extra bodies, and a handful of agitators have already been arrested today for allegedly interfering with federal agents. Despite inflammatory statements from local politicians making it sound like ICE is sweeping neighborhoods in SoCal &amp; kicking doors down, they are targeting those who already have a deportation orders or who have criminality that has been signed off on by a federal judge. If others are found with the targets and they are also illegal aliens, they will be arrested too. This is enforcement of bipartisan immigration laws that have been on the books for decades.&#8221;
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NEW: Per federal sources, despite local claims, there was no ICE “raid” at a Home Depot in LA today. DHS has a nearby office in Paramount that they are using as a staging area. Protesters found it and began gathering. ICE will conduct targeted enforcement around LA today, serving…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1931438152511611345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘You Bring Chaos, We’ll Bring Handcuffs’: Dan Bongino Responds To Protests At Los Angeles ICE Raids

'You Bring Chaos, We'll Bring Handcuffs': Dan Bongino Responds To Protests At Los Angeles ICE Raids

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Multiple people were injured Sunday in a firebombing attack at an event in Boulder, Colorado, meant to show support for hostages kidnapped by Hamas in the October 7, 2023, assault on Israel, officials said.
In a press conference, Boulder Police Chief Steven Redfearn <a href="https://x.com/boulderpolice/status/1929297731769536683" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> officers arrived on the scene in response to reports of people being set on fire before 2 p.m. local time and found victims with &#8220;injuries consistent with burns and other injuries.&#8221; They were sent to the hospital, he said.
An adult male suspect was detained and also taken to a hospital with minor injuries, Redfearn said.
Officials are investigating the attack. Redfearn noted that he could not ID the suspect right away.
&#8220;This act is unacceptable,&#8221; Redfearn said.
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Multiple victims were set on fire today in Boulder, CO. Some have life-threatening injuries. The attacker has been arrested, per the police chief.
The attack happened during an event to raise awareness for the 58 hostages. FBI says it&#8217;s investigating it as an act of terror. <a href="https://t.co/vY0IicMVtQ">pic.twitter.com/vY0IicMVtQ</a>
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Earlier, on X, the Boulder Police Department said it was responding to a &#8220;report of an attack&#8221; at 13th and Pearl Streets with &#8220;reports of several victims.&#8221; Police established an evacuation area and advised people to steer clear.
The FBI also responded.
&#8220;We are aware of and fully investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado. Our agents and local law enforcement are on the scene already, and we will share updates as more information becomes available,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1929287827130372291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> FBI Director Kash Patel.
Redfearn said he could not immediately confirm a motive, but did acknowledge that a &#8220;peaceful demonstration&#8221; by a pro-Israel group was going on at the scene in a busy area.
Video <a href="https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1929285153899077682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to social media appeared to show smoke rising out of a park where some people were screaming and lying on the ground.
&#8220;We are saddened and heartbroken to learn that an incendiary device was thrown at walkers at the Run for Their Lives walk on Pearl Street as they were raising awareness for the hostages still held in Gaza,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/avivaklompas/status/1929291509079154767?s=46&amp;t=ghpHusspWPjTMisXwpsMaA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> a statement from Boulder&#8217;s Jewish Community.
There were unconfirmed images <a href="https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1929297392450351110" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to social media showing a shirtless man, apparently the suspect, holding what appeared to be molotov cocktails. One video showed the man <a href="https://x.com/just_whatever/status/1929297646700613852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shouting</a> &#8220;end Zionists&#8221; and other things.
&#8220;FBI personnel are on the scene in Boulder, Colorado, along with local law enforcement,&#8221; FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino <a href="https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1929289348307890451" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;We are investigating this incident as an act of terror, and targeted violence. All of the necessary assets will be dedicated to this investigation. If you have any investigative tips please contact the FBI. And if you aided or abetted this attack, we will find you. You cannot hide.&#8221;
Among the others who commented on the attack was Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat.
&#8220;I am closely monitoring the situation in Boulder, and my thoughts go out to the people who have been injured and impacted by this heinous act of terror,&#8221; Polis <a href="https://x.com/GovofCO/status/1929288761139188042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. &#8220;Hate-filled acts of any kind are unacceptable. While details emerge, the state works with local and federal law enforcement to support this investigation. More information will be provided as it becomes available.&#8221;

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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Thursday gave updates into the case of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-tied-january-6-pipe-bomber-to-metro-card-of-ex-gov-official-but-blocked-interview-of-him-former-agent-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">planted pipe bombs on January 6, 2021</a>, and the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Regarding the J6 case, where pipe bombs were planted at the Democrat National Committee and the Republican National Committee, Bongino said on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; that the feds are closing in on numerous suspects.
&#8220;The second we got in, I said, &#8216;I want answers on this,&#8217; and I&#8217;m pretty confident that we&#8217;re closing in on some suspects,&#8221; the deputy director said.
Bongino noted that the Biden administration curiously showed a lack of interest in the pipe bomb case while the feds prosecuted more than 1,000 people who protested on January 6. &#8220;No one seemed to show any interest in this case,&#8221; he criticized.
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On the Epstein case, Bongino highlighted the American public&#8217;s lack of trust in the FBI and their general suspicion over the sex offender&#8217;s suicide. Addressing that issue, Bongino said the feds are working to clean up video evidence from the jail to show that Epstein was alone at the time he killed himself.
&#8220;There&#8217;s video &#8230; and we will release it,&#8221; Bongino said, noting that the video is not of the actual suicide. &#8220;That&#8217;s what&#8217;s taken a while on this &#8212; we&#8217;re working on cleaning it up to make sure you have an enhanced version. And we&#8217;re gonna give you the original, so you don&#8217;t think there are any shenanigans. You&#8217;re gonna see, there&#8217;s no one there but him. There&#8217;s just nobody there.&#8221;
&#8220;If you have a tip, let us know,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But there&#8217;s no DNA, there&#8217;s no audio, there&#8217;s no fingerprints, no suspects, no accomplices, there&#8217;s no tips, there&#8217;s nothing. If you have it, I&#8217;m happy to see it.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s video, clear as day, he&#8217;s the only person in there, and the only person coming out,&#8221; Bongino added. &#8220;You can see it.&#8221;
Epstein was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/nyregion/epstein-suicide-death.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found dead</a> with bed sheets wrapped around his neck at 6:30 a.m. on August 10, 2019, around a month after he was arrested.
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Bongino Gives Update On FBI’s Investigations Of Jeffrey Epstein And J6 Pipe Bombs

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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Thursday that the bureau would release video footage that shows &#8220;clear as day&#8221; that child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was the only person in his jail cell before he was found dead with marks around his neck.
In an appearance on &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373606842112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox &amp; Friends</a>&#8221; Thursday morning, Bongino said that all the evidence points to Epstein committing suicide in his New York jail cell in August 2019. Some strange circumastances around Epstein&#8217;s death sparked widespread speculation that the child rapist was killed due to his potential knowledge of influential people allegedly committing similar crimes. Earlier this month, Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel were criticized after they said that there was &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1924115672021241991" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence</a>&#8221; that Epstein killed himself.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not asking anyone to believe me. I&#8217;m telling you what&#8217;s there and what isn&#8217;t,&#8221; Bongino told the &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; co-hosts.
&#8220;There&#8217;s video that when you look at the video, and we will release it &#8230; we are working on cleaning it up to make sure you have an enhanced version, and we&#8217;re going to give the original so you don&#8217;t think there were any shenanigans — you&#8217;re going to see there&#8217;s no one there but him,&#8221; Bongino added.
He said the video doesn&#8217;t show &#8220;the actual act&#8221; of Epstein committing suicide, adding that the footage comes from a camera in the Metropolitan Correctional Center bay, which was just outside of Epstein&#8217;s cell. Bongino clarified that the FBI would look into any tips that would suggest that Epstein was murdered, but currently, &#8220;there is no DNA, there’s no audio, there’s no fingerprints, there’s no suspects, there’s no accomplices, there’s no tips. There is nothing.&#8221;
&#8220;If you have it, I’m happy to see it. There’s video clear as day, he’s the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it,&#8221; he added.
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Some of the strange circumstances around Epstein&#8217;s death include the fact that he was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/jeffrey-epstein-was-taken-suicide-watch-high-level-psychologist-n1046071" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed</a> from suicide watch just days after an apparent suicide attempt in July 2019. The decision to take Epstein off suicide watch was made by a &#8220;doctoral-level psychologist,&#8221; according to the Justice Department.
Additionally, two guards working the overnight shift on Epstein&#8217;s unit before his death allegedly <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-jeffrey-epstein-kill-himself-60-minutes-investigates-2020-01-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> to check on him for more than 10 hours, falling asleep and neglecting their duty to make routine checks every 30 minutes. A camera that should have captured Epstein&#8217;s cell door was reportedly not working the night Epstein died.
Epstein was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/nyregion/epstein-suicide-death.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found dead</a> with bed sheets wrapped around his neck at 6:30 a.m. on August 10, 2019, around a month after he was arrested.

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FBI Director Kash Patel teased a coming &#8220;wave of transparency&#8221; with regard to the Russiagate controversy that dogged President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House.
In a Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373020839112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Patel spoke to &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; host Maria Bartiromo about reviving trust in the bureau years after the scandal that they have long examined and criticized. Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-declassification-of-materials-related-to-the-federal-bureau-of-investigations-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an order in March for the declassification of materials related to the Russia investigation, codenamed &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane,&#8221; led by the FBI. Just The News chief investigative correspondent Jerry Dunleavy has already <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/declassified-crossfire-hurricane-docs-shine-light-steele-clinton-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">begun to report</a> some of their contents.
&#8220;I can speak to the folks that were in our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American public by putting on the biggest D.C. deception game we have ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied institution for law enforcement, and it was. And it will be again very soon,&#8221; Patel said.
Patel then made reference to several major Russiagate figures who previously served in the bureau: former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former agent Peter Strzok, and former General Counsel James Baker. The interview, which aired Sunday, was recorded before federal authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/director-of-national-intel-says-comey-should-be-thrown-jail-86-trump-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened</a> an investigation into Comey over a social media post that some have taken to be a threat against Trump. Comey denies that he intended to call for violence.
&#8220;But when the likes of Comey and McCabe and Strzok and company came in here with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied to a federal court, only to rig a presidential election by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars, likely illegally, to fund this entire operation, and then withhold exculpatory information from a federal court that I used to appear before to manhunt terrorists, that&#8217;s what broke the FBI,&#8221; Patel said, referring to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-kill-fisa-as-lawmakers-consider-surveillance-reauthorization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FISA scandal</a> within Russiagate.
&#8220;And then, when they were caught, they lied about it,&#8221; Patel added. &#8220;And you and a few others like Dan and others were brave enough to cover it six, seven, eight years ago. And we&#8217;re still talking about it today, because, as Congress is working rigorously with us, the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard. And they&#8217;re being sent there unredacted, so we can have full accountability. And that&#8217;s how you restore &#8230; the trust that was lost to the American public when it comes to the FBI.&#8221;
Bartiromo pushed back.
&#8220;Yes, but, come on, Director. With all due respect, we have been talking about this for a long time, and I have been demanding accountability for many, many years,&#8221; she said. &#8220;One of the — you mentioned Comey, Strzok and the rest. They have got TV shows. They have got media platforms. They&#8217;re fine. There&#8217;s been no accountability.&#8221;
In response to what he conceded was &#8220;a fair criticism,&#8221; Patel emphasized the situation is now different.
&#8220;What I will tell people is, we weren&#8217;t here in the FBI in the last five years, when we had statute of limitations that were still in play, where we could have investigated criminal conduct. Most of these statute of limitations are five years old,&#8221; Patel said. &#8220;And we will investigate criminal conduct where we find a righteous case to do so and the law and the facts allow us to. But a lot of it, we&#8217;re precluded from. So we will take the criticism, and it&#8217;s rightfully so, that could we have done more in the past? Sure, people before us could have.&#8221;
He continued: &#8220;But what we can do now is continue to put out the documents and the information that these people withheld from the American public. And I&#8217;m just telling you, right now, as much as we know about Crossfire Hurricane, he and I just found out more last week. And we&#8217;re continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out. That&#8217;s how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public. They withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren&#8217;t supposed to look. And it&#8217;s a good thing we&#8217;re here now to clean it up, and you&#8217;re about to see a wave of transparency.&#8221;
Pressed to explain what he meant, Patel added with a smile, &#8220;Just give us about a week or two.&#8221;
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Never-Trump commentator Tara Setmayer got into a heated exchange with Republican commentator Scott Jennings over President Donald Trump&#8217;s Sunday announcement naming former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino as Deputy Director of the FBI.
Setmayer and Jennings took part in a panel discussion during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;CNN NewsNight&#8221; with host Abby Phillip, and Jennings kicked off the debate when he took issue with the way Setmayer had characterized Bongino&#8217;s qualifications for the job.
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&#8220;You just denigrated Bongino&#8217;s law enforcement credentials. He was a cop and a Secret Service agent, you denigrated his academic credentials, he has a Masters Degree —&#8221; Jennings began.
&#8220;Just because he&#8217;s a police officer doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s qualified to run a 38,000-person, $11 billion budget agency, just like Pete Hegseth being a National Guardsman isn&#8217;t either &#8230; thank you for your service —&#8221; Setmayer interrupted, but Jennings was not finished.
&#8220;But you know what does? You know what does? Because he enjoys the confidence and the pleasure of the president,&#8221; Jennings said, alluding to the fact that Trump, as president, does not have to make staffing decisions based &#8220;qualifications&#8221; approved by Setmayer or anyone else.
Setmayer then argued that the real problem was Trump&#8217;s &#8220;judgment,&#8221; which she claimed was terrible.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that you are not yet over the outcome of the election,&#8221; Jennings shot back. &#8220;In our system, we elect people — we elect people and they appoint people to office. That&#8217;s the way it works.&#8221;
&#8220;No. Look at what&#8217;s happening to our country! And I&#8217;ll never be over it, Scott. This is dismantling our democracy in front of our eyes,&#8221; she complained, giving no evidence as to how Dan Bongino serving in the FBI would &#8220;dismantle&#8221; democracy. &#8220;And you guys are okay with this.&#8221;
Former New York City Council Republican leader Joe Borelli chimed in then, referencing a few of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s appointees and suggesting they might also have been unqualified.
Borelli mentioned former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s meteoric rise to lead the Department of Transportation along with &#8220;the guy who was stealing luggage,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I think that anyone who&#8217;s at any point defending the Biden administration &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;But this is the FBI,&#8221; Phillip interjected, and then attempted to pin Jennings down on the issue.
He argued simply that based on law enforcement experience, academic qualifications, and the fact that ultimately he and others serve &#8220;at the pleasure of the president,&#8221; Bongino was certainly qualified to take on the role.

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‘I’ll Never Be Over It!’: Never-Trumper Blows Up CNN Panel In Panic Over Dan Bongino

'I'll Never Be Over It!': Never Trumper Blows Up CNN Panel In Panic Over Dan Bongino

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Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino choked up during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of his eponymous show as he announced his plan to leave radio and podcasting behind and return to law enforcement.
Bongino, who served in the New York Police Department before taking a role in the United States Secret Service, said that he was accepting the job offered to him by President Donald Trump: Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The radio and podcast host began Monday&#8217;s show by asking a simple question, knowing that his entire audience was likely already aware that he&#8217;d been named to the FBI&#8217;s number two spot: &#8220;All right. How do you start today&#8217;s show?&#8221;
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Dan Bongino <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dbongino</a> with his VERY EMOTIONAL and HEARTFELT opening of his show today. We LOVE YOU, Dan! ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/XoJYB9A1Gb">pic.twitter.com/XoJYB9A1Gb</a>
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Bongino referenced a &#8220;man card&#8221; that someone had once given him, offering to turn it in temporarily because he expected the topic of his show would result in him getting emotional — and he was right.
&#8220;I got a call from the president, and he couldn&#8217;t have been nicer,&#8221; Bongino said. &#8220;Obviously I&#8217;ll keep the contents between us but I think you get the gist of what it was about &#8230; this is now real.&#8221;
&#8220;The president, Attorney General Bondi, and now Director — gosh, that sounds good to say — FBI Director Kash Patel offered this role, a role I expressed an interest in, and ladies and gentlemen &#8230;&#8221; Bongino choked up then, saying that he&#8217;d warned the audience it was going to happen. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to accept the role, proudly, as the deputy director, the number two spot at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.&#8221;
&#8220;Folks, it&#8217;s a lot to walk away from,&#8221; he continued, saying that he had big plans for what would happen with his show and would share what he could as time passed. &#8220;I love you guys, and Bongino Army out there, I hope you understand, I got a couple of negative comments you know, &#8216;Dan, you should have let us know.&#8217; I hope you understand &#8230; you do not ever get ahead of the President of the United States.&#8221;

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‘It’s A Lot To Walk Away From’: Dan Bongino Chokes Up On Air Announcing Plan To Exit Radio

'It's A Lot To Walk Away From': Dan Bongino Chokes Up On Air Announcing Plan To Exit Radio

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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that newly-confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel had selected former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino to serve as his deputy.
Trump shared the news in a Truth Social post, noting that Bongino would be sacrificing a successful career in radio and podcasting to take the job and once again serve his country.
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🚨 President Donald J. Trump names <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dbongino</a> as Deputy Director of the FBI.
Congratulations, Dan! <a href="https://t.co/p0sABQCFx3">pic.twitter.com/p0sABQCFx3</a>
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&#8220;Great news for Law Enforcement and American Justice!&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our Country, has just been named the next DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI, by the man who will be the best ever Director, Kash Patel.&#8221;
&#8220;Dan has a Masters Degree in Psychology from C.U.N.Y., and an MBA from Penn State. He was a member of the New York Police Department (New York’s Finest!), a highly respected Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, and is now one of the most successful Podcasters in the Country, something he is willing and prepared to give up in order to serve,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;Working with our great new United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Director Patel, Fairness, Justice, Law and Order will be brought back to America, and quickly. Congratulations Dan!&#8221; Trump concluded.
&#8220;Thank you Mr. President, Attorney General Bondi, and Director Patel,&#8221; Bongino replied.
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Thank you Mr. President, Attorney General Bondi, and Director Patel. <a href="https://t.co/bJqIDbWLEE">pic.twitter.com/bJqIDbWLEE</a>
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1893839865864745168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Patel was confirmed largely along party lines — with Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-ME) voting with the Democrats — after clearing a number of procedural hurdles throughout the confirmation process.

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Former Secret Service agent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-bongino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> ripped into the federal law enforcement agency over the &#8220;apocalyptic security failure&#8221; that ultimately resulted in the July 13th assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Bongino took part in a panel discussion, hosted by The Heritage Foundation, alongside several Republican Congressmen — Reps. Eli Crane (R-AZ), Chip Roy (R-TX), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Cory Mills (R-FL) — and he argued that it was &#8220;disgusting&#8221; the Trump&#8217;s would-be assassin was able to come as close as he did to succeeding in killing a former president.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dbongino</a> GOES OFF at Trump assassination attempt forum:
&#8220;A 20-year-old criminal outsmarted them on a $40 drone device&#8230; that&#8217;s disgusting!&#8221;
🔥🔥🔥 <a href="https://t.co/znApqFskfb">pic.twitter.com/znApqFskfb</a>
— Bongino Report (@BonginoReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/BonginoReport/status/1828411173433184487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Listen, let&#8217;s just get right to the point: this was an apocalyptic security failure,&#8221; Bongino began. &#8220;A man was murdered in front of his family, three people were shot on live television, including President Trump in the head — who came within two millimeters of having his head explode on national television in front of millions of people.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s no sugar-coating it, it&#8217;s no time for B.S.,&#8221; Bongino continued, noting that media had appeared to quickly lose interest in the story even though the security failures that day could have much broader implications going forward.
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Bongino went on to make it clear that it was not his intent to disparage the men and women who served in the United States Secret Service every day, putting their lives on the line. The real problems, he said, were institutional.
&#8220;They have a technology problem,&#8221; he explained, saying that the joke — which was no longer funny — was that the agency &#8220;relies on the technology of yesterday, tomorrow.&#8221;
The Secret Service&#8217;s aim to &#8220;do more with less&#8221; had also failed, he argued, saying, &#8220;A 20-year-old criminal outsmarted them on a $40 drone &#8230; You&#8217;re telling me that&#8217;s &#8216;more with less&#8217;? That&#8217;s disgusting. That&#8217;s nothing with less.&#8221;

‘Apocalyptic Security Failure’: Dan Bongino ‘Goes Off’ On Secret Service

'Apocalyptic Security Failure': Dan Bongino Goes Off On Secret Service Over Trump Assassination Attempt

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In a stunning revelation, popular conservative pundit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-bongino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> told The Daily Wire on Wednesday that an insider source told him a local police counter-sniper post never showed up for the rally in Pennsylvania where a gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop and nearly assassinated former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
Bongino, who previously served in the New York Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service, also relayed that President Joe Biden&#8217;s White House and the Homeland Security Department (DHS) instructed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secret Service</a> Director Kimberly Cheatle to clam up about the security failure at the event or risk losing her job.
An &#8220;unimpeachable source&#8221; divulged last night that there was &#8220;supposed to be a local police department counter-sniper post,&#8221; Bongino told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro. &#8220;There were two Secret Service counter-sniper teams. That was supposed to be an additional one. Apparently &#8230; that post never showed up.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DBongino</a> provides shocking new revelations about USSS failures in attempted assassination of Former President Trump &#8211; including that WH told Cheatle she needs to &#39;shut her mouth or she&#39;s out&#39; <a href="https://t.co/g2iwKDPNhM">pic.twitter.com/g2iwKDPNhM</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1813602299203444767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Bongino cautioned that he did not want to speculate about the reason for the absence but stated that it would explain why the Secret Service early on &#8220;appeared to pawn the blame off on the locals.&#8221; And, when the agency faced blowback, he said the Secret Service blamed the roof&#8217;s slope for not having someone stationed on the building.
Yet now the Secret Service is &#8220;getting backlash&#8221; for the roof claim, which was made by Cheatle in an interview <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-rally-shooting-unacceptable-secret-service-director-abc-exclusive/story?id=111962314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with ABC News</a>, Bongino noted. &#8220;They don&#8217;t know what to do, they don&#8217;t want to tell the truth that they just never checked the post that he showed up, and the post didn&#8217;t, so now they&#8217;re burying themselves,&#8221; he said.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homeland-security-inspector-general-investigating-secret-service-over-trump-rally-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Investigations</a> are looking into the security failure that allowed the gunman to get on a nearby rooftop and shoot Trump in the ear in addition to killing one rallygoer and injuring two others. A Secret Service sniper <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sniper-picture-trump-rally-shooter-rangefinder-assassination-attempt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly shot and killed</a> the gunman from another building while other personnel rushed to protect Trump.
Bongino said the White House and DHS are giving Cheatle &#8220;very strict orders&#8221; to &#8220;basically shut her mouth about this or she&#8217;s out,&#8221; adding that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is &#8220;vigorously&#8221; defending Cheatle because he &#8220;basically knows she has all the cookies in the cookie jar, and there&#8217;s no excuse for that.&#8221;
The host of &#8220;The Dan Bongino Show&#8221; also talked to Shapiro about what he described as the &#8220;golden rule of Secret Service Protection, or any EP, Executive Protection for that matter,&#8221; which he explained was &#8220;when a threat presents itself, you get off the &#8216;X'&#8221; where the assailant is planning to hit a mark — in this case, on stage.
&#8220;The &#8216;X&#8217; is where that protectee&#8217;s standing, or is in a car, a vehicle gets stopped and they start firing at it with RPGs, you get the hell off the &#8216;X.&#8217; Cover and evacuate. That is rule number one. It&#8217;s Charlie Brown Encyclopedia EP Executive Protection. Why was he even on the &#8216;X&#8217; in the first place?&#8221; Bongino said.
&#8220;The guy was using a rangefinder at 5:41 p.m.,&#8221; he said about the gunman. &#8220;Trump didn&#8217;t walk on stage till 6. They have a holding room, Ben, at every site. It&#8217;s called the holding room for a reason. It&#8217;s a very sophisticated thing, Ben. Get ready. You know why? Because they hold the president there when something&#8217;s amiss.&#8221;
Bongino, in wrapping up his comments on the topic, said, &#8220;Why was he not in the holding room? Why did you let him walk on stage with an open threat? The catastrophic failures in judgment here are legion, and it&#8217;s hard for me, as a guy who&#8217;s very proud of this agency and what I did there, to digest this all.&#8221;

Dan Bongino Blows Open Secret Service’s Failure To Protect Trump

Dan Bongino Blows Open Secret Service's Failure To Protect Trump

Ben Shapiro

In a new “Sunday Special” interview, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro spoke to Dan Bongino about who he thinks will win this year&#8217;s presidential election.
Shapiro started their hour-long discussion by asking Bongino to predict who will claim victory in November, President Biden or former President Donald Trump. Bongino is the <a href="https://rumble.com/c/Bongino/videos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">host</a> of &#8220;The Dan Bongino Show&#8221; on Rumble and a former Fox News host as well as a former NYPD and Secret Service officer.
&#8220;If you had to put money on it today, who do you think wins, Trump or Biden?&#8221; Shapiro asked.
&#8220;You know, listen, predictions kill me because it&#8217;s one of those things, like everybody&#8217;s got one. But unless you can back it up with some data, it&#8217;s kind of meaningless,&#8221; Bongino began.
&#8220;I think Donald Trump is going to win,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But there&#8217;s a reason. The coalition is completely different. And this is where I think everybody miscalculated.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/can-america-be-saved-dan-bongino-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH THE FULL &#8216;SUNDAY SPECIAL&#8217; EPISODE WITH DAN BONGINO</a>
Bongino said that in 2021 with the &#8220;crazy&#8221; news cycle and the Left&#8217;s &#8220;hysteria&#8221; around January 6 and other things, people thought about Trump, &#8220;This guy&#8217;s going to get smoked.&#8221; People believed suburban moms and independents would abandon Trump, Bongino said.
&#8220;And then this moment happened,&#8221; Bongino said.
&#8220;Now you see the raw data, the polling numbers. The Trump coalition&#8217;s just different. Hispanic voters, black voters, you&#8217;re seeing working class males in droves, and most importantly union workers. My brother&#8217;s a Local Three electrician. He doesn&#8217;t know a single person voting for Biden. When did the Republicans ever win the union vote?&#8221; he said.
&#8220;In my humble opinion, Ben, I think Trump&#8217;s lasting gift outside of the Supreme Court, the Abraham Accords, and other things, I really believe this, I think his real gift to the Republican Party is going to be that he completely altered the coalition moving forward,&#8221; Bongino said.
Shapiro noted that Obama&#8217;s 2012 victory was notable because he &#8220;basically decided to abandon the middle and run directly to his base.&#8221;
&#8220;The magic of Donald Trump in 2024, shockingly, is that he is the moderate candidate in this race,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;If you look at him, positionally, Donald Trump has grabbed the middle on every single issue.&#8221;
&#8220;A hundred percent,&#8221; Bongino agreed, adding that, &#8220;it&#8217;s funny when people paint this guy as this far-right conservative dictator,&#8221; especially when his first term had &#8220;quite a moderate agenda.&#8221;
Bongino went on to note that some &#8220;old school&#8221; conservatives are sometimes bothered by Trump&#8217;s &#8220;transactional&#8221; political style, especially when it comes to hot-button issues like abortion.
&#8220;I always say, we can argue tax policy all we want, but if you&#8217;re dead, you&#8217;re not really paying taxes. So that&#8217;s like kind of my thing. Don&#8217;t whack babies,&#8221; Bongino said.
&#8220;But he&#8217;s transactional,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He looks at something and goes, &#8216;Okay, you want to save x number of babies. You&#8217;re not going to get that done in this state. So how about we do this?'&#8221;
&#8220;But then you&#8217;re like, he&#8217;s not wrong about the politics &#8230; Maybe the Republican Party needs more of a transactionalist,&#8221; Bongino said.
&#8220;You had asked in the beginning, can we keep this going, and the answer is, I&#8217;m not sure. I&#8217;m not sure we have this great bench of people who can blend this new populism with conservatism,&#8221; Bongino said.
Shapiro and Bongino also discussed the Biden campaign, Bongino noting that President Biden is not the same now as when he debated Paul Ryan in 2012. Biden is set to debate former President Donald Trump on June 27.
&#8220;He&#8217;s a different guy now. He&#8217;s got this anger issue. It&#8217;s a serious anger issue. He can&#8217;t seem to control himself anymore especially when his son is brought up,&#8221; Bongino said. &#8220;So I think what Trump should do, and I&#8217;ve said this repeatedly even to him is they need to bring props. I&#8217;m not talking about a big rubber ducky or anything. He needs to pull out a copy of that check, that $40,000 check and be like &#8216;Joe, it says Joe Biden, $40,000, where&#8217;d it come from, Joe? Explain.&#8217; He&#8217;ll lose his mind.&#8221;
I think Biden agreeing to the debate was a really, really awful idea,&#8221; Bongino said.
&#8220;Every day he changes his mind because he&#8217;s too stupid to have a position,&#8221; Bongino said. &#8220;But the problem he&#8217;s going to have on the second point here is none of this is changeable. He&#8217;s only getting older. He obviously has some cognitive frontal lobe dementia if you just look at him. None of his policies are changeable. The economy is not going to turn around. The Middle East isn&#8217;t getting any better.&#8221;

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‘Everybody Miscalculated’: Dan Bongino Tells Ben Shapiro Who He Thinks Will Win The Election

Dan Bongino Tells Ben Shapiro Who He Thinks Will Win The Election

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Dinesh D’Souza and Michael Moore have something in common: Both evoked Adolf Hitler in their recent films.
Moore did it, over and again, in his 2018 documentary “Fahrenheit 11/9,” a cartoonish assault on President Donald Trump.
D’Souza opens “<a href="https://policestatefilm.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Police State</a>,” his latest docudrama, with images of der Fuhrer along with Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao.
Subtle.
Yet, while Moore strained to make any coherent connection to his target, D’Souza’s “Police State” quickly settles into a more credible series of allegations. And he has the headlines to back them up.
The combination of a two-tiered justice system, government-led censorship and an effort to muzzle &#8220;Ma and Pa&#8221; conservatives have America steering toward a “fledgling police state.”
D’Souza, a savvy marketer, knew adding the word “fledgling” would strip his film of its marketing pop. It’s the phrase he uses repeatedly in his new docudrama, a collision of staged reenactments and harrowing talking head interviews.
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The film starts fast, notwithstanding the roll call of 20th century monsters. D’Souza knows few, if any, liberals will watch his new film, but he still could have warmed up to the topics at hand.
He finds a bipartisan entry point by noting how President George W. Bush’s War on Terror tactics embraced after 9/11 eventually turned away from global actors to the home front. And we didn’t see it coming.
Some of “Police State” will feel familiar to conservatives who aggressively read news outlets outside the warped mainstream. Republicans are keenly aware of social media giants blocking inconvenient opinions, no matter how accurate they turn out to be.
Or how Hunter Biden remains free and clear (for now) while former President Donald Trump faces a crush of serious indictments.
Perhaps that’s why the filmmaker recruited actor Nick Searcy to play the literal face of FBI corruption. The “Justified” alum anchors the dramatic recreations, playing an FBI boss overseeing the smackdown on Joe and Jane Sixpack.
Churchgoers. January 6th protesters. Moms who aren’t keen on their children reading dirty books at school.
Ironically, Searcy’s 2022 film “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-film-capitol-punishment-counters-medias-jan-6-insurrection-narrative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol Punishment”</a> offers a companion piece to “Police State.” That film showed actual footage of FBI agents barging into suspects’ homes, guns drawn as if they were taking in a terrorist cell, not a beleaguered Trump fanatic.
“Police State” features commentary from Rep. Jim Jordan, Sen. Rand Paul and pundit Dan Bongino, the latter offering a dash of the theatrical. Some of D’Souza’s questions fall into the “leading” category, but the answers leave a mark.
And yet the film hardly needs extra razzle or dazzle. The facts laid out are horrifying enough.
Consider:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The January 6th protestor who hung himself before an over-the-top charge against him could be thrown out of court, according to his grieving aunt.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A concerned mother whose attempts to speak her mind about her children’s school curriculum led to FBI agents breaking into her home.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A senior citizen, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/fbi-tears-new-yorkers-life-into-shreds-devine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Bolanos</a>, gets the cancellation treatment when the local media reports on his microscopic ties to the Jan. 6 protests. That was easy compared to how the FBI treated the pillar of his community.</li>
</ul>
Whistleblowers power much of the narrative. 
Rogue FBI agents Kyle Seraphin and Steve Friend describe the incentives employed to round up real and imagined domestic terrorists. Former Big Tech workers share how some of the most influential platforms in our culture censor opinions considered unwelcome. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter Files, anyone?</a>
Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/rodas-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes the atrocities</a> tied to President Joe Biden’s open border policies, including children being sex trafficked at will.
“Police State” understands that facts and figures only take a project like this so far. It’s why we meet folks like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-activist-prosecuted-by-biden-administration-running-for-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-life activist Mark Houck</a> who nearly spent a very long time in jail for pushing an abortion clinic worker after the man verbally harassed his son.
Houck volunteered to turn himself in to the authorities. The authorities opted to raid his home instead, snatching him away from his wife and seven horrified children as if he were a drug cartel kingpin.
Previous D’Souza films delivered the facts and agitprop, even for those who lean to the Right. The pundit and author’s film canon delivers furious broadsides against the Left.
Last year’s “2000 Mules,” which alleged an intricate pattern of voter fraud helped sway the 2020 presidential election, found a subdued D’Souza raising alarming questions about voting integrity.
“Police State” offers a blend of the D’Souza old and newer style. There’s a level of showmanship that’s unmistakable, combined with testimony from people who have suffered at the government’s hands.
D’Souza’s visual style &#8211; shaky camera work combined with sly graphics &#8211; underlines the themes in play. That, plus the bleak color canvas, gives the story a dystopian appeal. The recreations have a sharper feel than past D’Souza efforts, his filmmaking chops growing over time.
The docudrama wraps on an optimistic note, an odd tonal choice given what preceded it.
It’s a shame D’Souza’s conservative brand will keep most progressive viewers far away from “Police State.” Even if he toned down his partisan framing they wouldn’t give his film a fair shake. 
Americans from both parties need to see what’s happening to America, and why even a fledgling police state won’t stop with just one party.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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