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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Scott Jennings brutally reminds CNN Abby Philip that Dan Bongino&#39;s appointment to Deputy FBI Director is based on President Trump&#39;s authority and not on Democrats who refuse to get over their embarrassing election loss. <a href="https://t.co/EEHkvpghAH">pic.twitter.com/EEHkvpghAH</a>
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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>
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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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&#8220;A 20-year-old criminal outsmarted them on a $40 drone device&#8230; that&#8217;s disgusting!&#8221;
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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>
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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;

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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

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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>
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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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Political commentator Dan Bongino has made clear that he holds no illusions about the threat Hamas poses for not only the Jews, but the West in general, issuing a series of posts forcefully condemning any hint of moral equivalence or appeasement when it comes to the terrorist group and its supporters.
“The same people who want to kill the Jews, want to kill you too. Your ‘coexist’ bumper sticker won’t save you,” Bongino tweeted Tuesday, the latest in a series of statements voicing unyielding opposition to Hamas and his contempt for those who would defend the terror group.
“History is so much clearer to me now,&#8221; the former Secret Service agent wrote earlier that morning. &#8220;Now it all makes sense. Now I see how it happened.”
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The same people who want to kill the Jews, want to kill you too. Your “coexist” bumper sticker won’t save you.
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1714275181894721727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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History is so much clearer to me now. Now it all makes sense. Now I see how it happened.
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1714270414141071423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“As the world burns some people absolute[ly] refuse to exit their bubble,&#8221; Bongino wrote Monday. &#8220;The world is only to be seen through their lens. Anything else is heresy. I’ll repeat this again &#8211; last week was illuminating for me. Cutting the cancers from my life, while doing the right thing, not the convenient thing, gave me an incredible sense of calm. I’m never going back.”
“I support free speech, and I ALWAYS will. But I’m not blind,&#8221; he added later that day. &#8220;Don’t you find it odd that conservatives need police protection during speeches on college campuses (if the events are allowed to happen at all), while supporters of the Hamas death cult openly call for death and destruction on campuses with no such concerns? So strange.”
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As the world burns some people absolute refuse to exit their bubble. The world is only to be seen through their lens. Anything else is heresy. I’ll repeat this again &#8211; last week was illuminating for me. Cutting the cancers from my life, while doing the right thing, not the…
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1714066711689732239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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I support free speech, and I ALWAYS will. But I’m not blind. Don’t you find it odd that conservatives need police protection during speeches on college campuses (if the events are allowed to happen at all), while supporters of the Hamas death cult openly call for death and…
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1713917649137131786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Podcast host Megyn Kelly echoed Bongino&#8217;s perspective:
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Same
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More examples of Bongino&#8217;s posts are below:
“The savages could release the hostages THEY TOOK and services would be restored. But they don’t want that. They want death. For everyone. So spare us all your tier-one level bulls*** about what’s going on. The savages want everyone to die. Because they love death. And that’s a FACT.”
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The savages could release the hostages THEY TOOK and services would be restored. But they don’t want that. They want death. For everyone. So spare us all your tier-one level bullshit about what’s going on. The savages want everyone to die. Because they love death. And that’s…
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1713259849037877458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Relieved to see so many terror-simp dips***s exiting stage left off of my account, and back into their momma’s basements, while howling about a fake ‘occupation’ they heard about from a random anon on TikTok. Cut the cancer from your life. They told you who they are. Believe them.”
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Relieved to see so many terror-simp dipshits exiting stage left off of my account, and back into their momma’s basements, while howling about a fake “occupation” they heard about from a random anon on TikTok. Cut the cancer from your life. They told you who they are. Believe…
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1713542970492834275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“The savage doesn’t give a s*** about your Tweets. The savage doesn’t care about your Che Guevara t-shirt. The savage doesn’t care that you fanboy a bunch of eunuch dips***s who hate Jews. The savage only cares about one thing &#8211; death. Yours included.”
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The savage doesn’t give a shit about your Tweets. The savage doesn’t care about your Che Guevara t-shirt. The savage doesn’t care that you fanboy a bunch of eunuch dipshits who hate Jews. The savage only cares about one thing &#8211; death. Yours included.
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1712993945821520016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“F***ing savages. Death is their only language. So death is what you should give them.”
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Fucking savages. Death is their only language. So death is what you should give them. <a href="https://t.co/YCZn5I46OR">https://t.co/YCZn5I46OR</a>
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1712932797667529016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“What’s the status of the hostage negotiations for all of the Palestinian infants, children and women the Israelis are holding hostage and threatening to kill? Oh, right, that’s not happening. It’s the Hamas demon savages doing that.”
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What’s the status of the hostage negotiations for all of the Palestinian infants, children and women the Israelis are holding hostage and threatening to kill? Oh, right, that’s not happening. It’s the Hamas demon savages doing that.
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1713306512293339478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“If you’re siding with bloodthirsty savages, who would behead you in a NY minute, because some yet-to-exit-puberty d-bag did a Tik Tok video about the fake ‘occupation,’ he read about in a blog post from another basement dwelling ‘influencer’ taking a break from his porn watching schedule, then you’re doing this life thing all wrong.”
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If you’re siding with bloodthirsty savages, who would behead you in a NY minute, because some yet-to-exit-puberty d-bag did a Tik Tok video about the fake “occupation,” he read about in a blog post from another basement dwelling “influencer” taking a break from his porn watching…
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1713277660007219463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“The vast majority of problems in the Middle East would disappear tomorrow if the savages could curb their bloodlust desire to kill Jews.”
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The vast majority of problems in the Middle East would disappear tomorrow if the savages could curb their bloodlust desire to kill Jews.
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1712418745967059437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“It’s either the savage, or the civilized man. Your choice. There’s no fence to sit on.”
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It’s either the savage, or the civilized man. Your choice. There’s no fence to sit on.
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1712610708007895174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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‘The Same People Who Want To Kill The Jews Want To Kill You Too’: Dan Bongino’s No-Nonsense Tweets On Hamas

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Radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-sad-day-dan-bongino-exits-fox-news-effective-immediately" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> said on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump should refuse to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-agrees-to-200000-bond-other-conditions-in-fulton-county-indictment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post bond</a> when he surrenders to Fulton County, Georgia, authorities. Instead, he said that Trump should force District Attorney Fani Willis&#8217; hand and make her put him in jail.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/enemies-of-the-united-states-are-watching-this-dan-bongino-torches-beggar-in-chief-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bongino</a>, who previously served in the NYPD and the United States Secret Service, made the comments during his show and argued that &#8220;crazy times&#8221; called for &#8220;different, crazy, bold approaches.&#8221;
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Dan Bongino (<a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dbongino</a>) makes a GREAT point on why it might be a good idea for President Trump NOT to post bail.
Put on the pressure!
Take a listen: <a href="https://t.co/xUmWjNHII7">pic.twitter.com/xUmWjNHII7</a>
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&#8220;Folks, I don&#8217;t think the Trump team should post the bond. I don&#8217;t,&#8221; he began. &#8220;This may sound like a crazy idea, but folks, we&#8217;re living in crazy times. And crazy times require different, crazy, bold approaches.&#8221;
&#8220;Fani Willis wants to be a smarta** tyrant, little socialist communist like she is down in Fulton County, Georgia? Don&#8217;t post. Don&#8217;t post the bond,&#8221; Bongino continued. &#8220;You&#8217;re gonna jail him? Let&#8217;s elect our first political prisoner. Go ahead. Go to jail. Let the Secret Service shut the entire jail down, and we&#8217;ll see how long you&#8217;re willing to keep this charade going.&#8221;
&#8220;Let them put him in jail for a bit — folks, I know it sounds crazy,&#8221; he added, saying that the Secret Service had the authority under federal law to declare anything a protected area — even a jail — and that if the former president were to spend any time there, they would have to do that.
&#8220;You may think it&#8217;s a crazy idea,&#8221; he said again, adding, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so. Folks, you&#8217;ve seen people around the world take a stand like this. And it&#8217;s easy for me to say, I get it, I wouldn&#8217;t be the one in a prison cell &#8212; but you want to send a message? Let&#8217;s see, let&#8217;s see what happens.&#8221;
Bongino went on to suggest that if Trump was put in jail, people should protest outside the jail every day. &#8220;Make them put you in jail and make them show America their a**es and show America who they really are. And let&#8217;s see how long this lasts.&#8221;
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Bongino concluded by saying that &#8220;the eff around and find out time has long since passed.&#8221;

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Popular conservative pundit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-bongino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> reacted with shock upon learning that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fox-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> parted ways with top-rated host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m stunned. I don&#8217;t even know what to say right now,&#8221; Bongino, who himself recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-sad-day-dan-bongino-exits-fox-news-effective-immediately" target="_blank" rel="noopener">split with Fox News</a>, said as his podcast, &#8220;The Dan Bongino Show,&#8221; was airing live on Monday.
Moments earlier, Bongino said he had &#8220;actual goosebumps&#8221; after learning the news and receiving multiple text messages from people following Carlson&#8217;s departure.
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Dan Bongino is on air live when he finds out Tucker Carlson and Fox News parted ways <a href="https://t.co/sZx9U54BZx">pic.twitter.com/sZx9U54BZx</a>
&mdash; • ᗰISᑕᕼIᗴᖴ ™ • (@4Mischief) <a href="https://twitter.com/4Mischief/status/1650549662691078169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In a move that sent shockwaves through the media sphere, Fox News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-tucker-carlson-out-at-fox-news-channel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced on Monday</a> that the network and Carlson &#8220;agreed to part ways,&#8221; and the host&#8217;s last show was Friday.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,&#8221; Fox News said in a statement, adding that &#8220;Fox News Tonight&#8221; will air live at 8 p.m. ET as an interim show helmed by &#8220;rotating&#8221; network personalities until a new host is named.
Notably, Carlson ended his last show by telling viewers he would be back on Monday. As of press time, Carlson has yet to comment on his situation.
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Here were the final moments of <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> Tonight &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tucker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Tucker</a>&#39;s final guest was the pizza deliveryman who tripped up a suspected car thief. The driver &#8211; Tyler Morrell &#8211; brought a bunch of pizzas, so the two sat and ate them while mocking the thief.
&quot;We&#39;ll be back on Monday!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/CSQlJnjqgf">pic.twitter.com/CSQlJnjqgf</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1650532238046425095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Sources <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-24/tucker-carlson-is-out-at-fox-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Los Angeles Times</a> that the decision to fire Carlson and his producer Justin Wells came from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and that the exit is related to a discrimination lawsuit filed by former network producer Abby Grossberg.
Carlson leaves Fox News days after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-sad-day-dan-bongino-exits-fox-news-effective-immediately" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bongino announced his exit</a> from the network. Like Carlson, Bongino had a show on Fox&#8217;s flagship network and another on its subscription-based Fox Nation.
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Upon sharing the development about his time ending at the network, Bongino assured his listeners that there was &#8220;no acrimony&#8221; between himself and Fox, but rather the two sides &#8220;just couldn’t come to terms on an extension. That’s really it.&#8221;
On Monday, while reacting to Carlson&#8217;s exit from Fox News, Bongino said he had &#8220;no inside knowledge&#8221; about the situation surrounding his former colleague.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t even care to speculate about what happened. But I suspect Tucker Carlson will be getting a lot of offers from a lot of people,&#8221; Bongino said.

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Nationally syndicated radio and podcast host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-bongino/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> confirmed on Thursday that he had parted ways with Fox News.
Bongino, a former New York City police officer and U.S. Secret Service agent, made the announcement on his <a href="https://rumble.com/v2jeefl-some-important-personal-news-ep.-1995-04202023.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> Thursday, explaining that the network had been good to him — and good for him — over the last decade, but that recent contract negotiations had simply come up short.
Prior to his exit, Bongino hosted a weekly Saturday evening show on the flagship network called &#8220;Unfiltered,&#8221; and his &#8220;Canceled in the USA&#8221; ran on the network&#8217;s subscription-based Fox Nation.
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JUST IN: Fox News parts ways with <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dbongino</a> — “We thank Dan for his contributions and wish him success in his future endeavors.” Fox News will air <a href="https://twitter.com/LawrenceBJones3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LawrenceBJones3</a> in place of Bongino on Saturdays. <a href="https://t.co/WFXVz2TeEx">https://t.co/WFXVz2TeEx</a>
&mdash; TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/1649067980926468101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The show ending last week was tough. It’s not some big conspiracy theory, I promise you. There’s no acrimony,&#8221; Bongino said. &#8220;We just couldn’t come to terms on an extension. That’s really it.&#8221;
&#8220;I really enjoyed myself there. They were good for me for ten years,&#8221; he continued, adding, &#8220;It’s a sad day. They did give me the opportunity to do one last show, I don’t want you to think they showed me the door. That’s on me, not on them, but I thought it was best to go this way for now.&#8221;
Fox News also provided a statement, saying, &#8220;We thank Dan for his contributions and wish him success in his future endeavors.&#8221;
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As Forbes noted in a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2023/04/20/dan-bongino-out-at-fox-news/?dg&amp;sh=144b39504b59" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on the popular host&#8217;s exit, ratings were not likely the cause for the split – Bongino&#8217;s Saturday show regularly topped the ratings, taking the top spot in prime time for the first quarter of 2023.
&#8220;We were the number one show 90 percent of the time. We had a great team,&#8221; Bongino agreed, and while he acknowledged that the timing was not optimal, he assured his audience that his departure was solely the result of failed contract negotiations and not because of the lawsuit that Fox News just settled with Dominion Voting Systems.
In place of &#8220;Unfiltered,&#8221; Fox News will air &#8220;Lawrence Jones Cross Country&#8221; this coming Saturday — and the network plans to announce a permanent replacement in the coming weeks.

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-brass-barred-agents-from-probing-hunters-laptop-whistleblowers-tell-lawmaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI whistleblower</a> warned that the bureau has been transformed from a law enforcement agency to an intelligence-gathering operation that spies on law-abiding Americans to help advance a political agenda and said thousands of agents and employees feel betrayed by the bureau’s leadership.
Kyle Seraphin told podcaster and radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-youtube-permanently-bans-dan-bongino/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> over a bombshell, two-part interview that agents are routinely directed to spy on Americans with little or no basis, the bureau’s management ranks are hopelessly politicized by inexperienced corporate climbers, and that hundreds of experienced agents are staying on despite their disgust simply to collect their pensions.
“The number of guys who say, ‘I don’t agree with what’s going on here, but I’ve got three years to retire,’ it’s heartbreaking,” said Seraphin, a five-year veteran and former Air Force member who is currently suspended without pay and unable to seek another job without quitting or getting the FBI’s permission.
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In one particularly poignant segment, Seraphin recalled being sent to Washington, D.C.’s Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of his orientation. New agents, he said, were told that the atrocity could not have happened without the participation of “minor government officials” supported by local and federal law enforcement.
“If anybody refuses to get with the program, it doesn’t happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The answer, ‘I’m just following orders,’ the Nuremberg piece, it doesn’t fly. We know better.”
Seraphin said he was adhering to that training when he came forward but is now being punished for doing so.
“We’re supposed to know that if they ask you to do something that is illegal, immoral, or unethical, following orders is not an excuse,” he said.
Seraphin said he believes he was already a marked man inside the bureau for refusing to get a COVID vaccination after having contracted the virus in late 2020. He was given a religious exemption, but he helped organize as many as 300 FBI employees who also objected to the government mandate.
But last November, after Attorney General Merrick Garland in testimony to lawmakers denied that the Department of Justice was targeting education-activist parents with law enforcement tools reserved for terrorists, Seraphin says he blew the whistle. Seraphin, who previously worked in the bureau’s Washington field office but by last year was stationed in New Mexico, went to his local member of Congress with an email that had been widely circulated within the bureau. The email, he said, relayed Garland’s orders to use Patriot Act counterterrorism tools to target parents at school board meetings through a tag called “EDUOFFICIALS.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nsbas-first-draft-of-domestic-terrorism-letter-called-for-feds-to-sic-army-national-guard-and-its-military-police-on-parents-independent-review-shows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The scandal blew up</a> when it was revealed that the DOJ issued the orders after coordinating with the White House and the National School Boards Association to vilify as “domestic terrorists” parents who objected to the teaching of radical gender and race theories. The school board association later apologized as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25-states-have-now-left-national-school-boards-association-as-nebraska-departs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of state members left in protest</a>.
“That’s when you become part of political hatchet jobs, and I didn’t sign up for that, and nobody I know signed up for that either,” Seraphin said. “That’s not what people want to get involved in.”
Bongino praised Seraphin for coming forward and predicted that the whistleblower floodgates will open at the FBI.
“Having worked with a number of patriotic FBI professionals in the past, I knew it was only a matter of time before patriots like Kyle stepped forward to expose the unfortunate rot at the Bureau,” Bongino, a best-selling author and former U.S. Secret Service agent, told The Daily Wire.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) says at least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-whistleblower-alleges-bureau-took-agents-off-child-sex-abuse-cases-to-pursue-political-probes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14 whistleblowers have contacted his office</a> to complain about how partisan politics has infected the bureau and turned it against conservative Americans. Allegations include silencing investigations of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-brass-barred-agents-from-probing-hunters-laptop-whistleblowers-tell-lawmaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden&#8217;s damning laptop</a>, manipulating crime statistics, and spying on law-abiding Americans. Recently, one whistleblower, Steve Friend, alleged that the bureau is under orders to inflate the number of domestic terrorism cases. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-suspends-whistleblower-who-criticized-bureaus-handling-of-january-6-investigations-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friend was suspended</a> after his name was leaked to a media outlet.
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&#8220;We now understand based on what we&#8217;ve learned that he&#8217;s been suspended, which appears to be some kind of retaliation,&#8221; Jordan <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/key-lawmaker-worried-fbi-whistleblowers-facing-retaliation-evidence">told</a> the John Solomon Reports podcast. &#8220;The law says that whistleblowers, agents coming forward as whistleblowers, are protected by the law. There&#8217;s not supposed to be retaliation.&#8221;
Seraphin said “more than people than you think” are coming forward and that many have left the bureau as, in their view, it has become part of a partisan agenda. He said agents qualify for pensions of up to $60,000 a year after putting in 20 years, and many that are more than halfway toward qualifying are just hanging on despite their disgust with leadership under Director Christopher Wray.
Seraphin said several agents he knows took part in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dan-bongino-explodes-over-fbi-raid-on-mar-a-lago-offers-solution-to-fix-the-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 8 raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home</a>, which he said he would’ve refused to participate in.
“I’ve got friends that I don’t speak to after that,” he said. “I assume they were part of it. I don’t know what happened, but you guys forgot to throw the B.S. flag on that.
“You ask me to go raid President Obama’s house, you ask me to raid President Bush’s house, it’s not happening,” he continued. “It’s not happening. I’m sorry, it’s not happening. I’m not doing that. I’m going to be, probably pretty vocal. That’s probably going to be my last day.”

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