Dan Bongino was chosen, in 2021, of the role of the FBI deputy director of the Trump Administration.
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The choice of the Trump administration to the deputy director of the FBI is Dan Bongino, a former American secret service that has turned into a busy, and his fiery support to President Trump has gained a tremendous follow-up-and he saw that he was prohibited from YouTube to enhance the information subject to misleading.
Bongino, 50, Hosts Dan Bongino ShowA joint radio show and daily podcast was classified The most popular seventh Podcast in the United States in January, according to Podtrac.
Trump said in his announcement that Bongino “is ready and ready” to give up his offer for service.
“Wonderful news for American law enforcement and justice!” Trump books Sunday night. “Dan Bongino, an incredible love and passion for our country, was just appointed Deputy Director of the FBI, by the man who will be the best director ever, Cash Patel.”
The role of the deputy director, who supervises local and international operations, has traditionally gone to the FBI agent. Bongino has never worked in the FBI, although he served in the New York Police Department.
Bongino Battle defended a episode of the podcast that was broadcast last week, entitled “The Golden Age of Republican Policy”. Bongino said he knew Patel for a long time and “I can tell you with certainty that Cash Patel exists for one reason: it exists to make the FBI again.”
“People, if we do not have a reliable spies in this country, and the fight against terrorists, to the terrorists who are planning the plans here frankly, and some entity to coordinate for a crime through patriotism and the student, we will not have a country,” he added. “He added.” Kash is committed Only and so. “
Patel – fierce critics of the FBI who has no experience as a senior law enforcement official – has been confirmed with a small difference that is supposed to be non -partisan and independent of the White House.
The Republicans have welcomed his confirmation, on the pretext that he could make changes to the office, which some accused of the right of targeting conservatives in recent years. “He will continue to focus on the basic task of the Federal Investigation Office,” said Patel, who is seeking to calm doubts at the January session, if he confirmed that he “will continue to focus on the basic task of the Federal Investigation Office.”
NPR contacts with Bongino to get more information about his views about the traditional independence of the FBI and ask if Patel is involved in his choice.
With no need to confirm the Senate, Bongino will soon be the right man of Pattel. Here is what to know about it.
It is an old warrior in NYPD and Secret Service
Bongino holds a master’s degree
The site of an archiving campaign for the House of Representatives in the state of Maryland for the year 2012 from Pongino says that he started his career with the New York Police Department in 1995, where he entered the Cadet program while he was present and becomes a full -time officer after two years.
Bongino joined the US Secret Service in 1999, first in the federal crimes of the New York Field Office, and in the end he became a coach at the SECRET Service Training Academy in Maryland, according to the archived website.
He joined the Presidential Protection Department in 2006 and worked on the details of the presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
New Yorker Writer Ivan Osnos, who united Bongino in 2022, told NPR’s Fresh air In that year when Bongino was well known as a well -known and loved agent, “he never spoke about politics.”
OSNOS said that shortly after resignation from the secret service in 2011, when he was asked about working with Obama, Bongino Ashah as a man and father of Saleh. However, in the years that followed, he repeatedly criticized and managed the former president as “”corruptAnd “and”Disagreement“
“There has been this rapid shift for him over the years since then, and I think some of the people who worked with them were arrested in the secret service by surprise,” Osnos said. “One of them said in this article that there are two types of Dan Bonginos: There is the agent, and now there is politics.”
Bongino had his own political ambitions, as it became clear.
He was nominated for the American Senate seat in Maryland in 2012, and won the Republican preliminary elections but lost in the general elections. He also ran in vain of Congress seats in 2014 and 2016 in Maryland and Florida, after moving there with his family.
He invented his media empire
Dan Bongino in the picture in Fox News Channel Studios in June 2019. The former Fox host has one of the most popular podcasts in the United States
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After his shows in Congress, Bongino turned his focus towards the media and began podcast on the basement. And he originally called The rebel Republicand Describe “Millions of Downloads” by September 2016.
Osnos said in 2022: “With clear phrases, five or six years ago, he started podcast on the basement, and was putting moving blankets on the wall as a kind of Homspun Studio.” This extraordinary height through the ranks of conservative broadcasts, to the extent that today, he has a podcast, which was at some points is the number 1 in the world.
OSNOS rapidly high Bongino’s rising to several factors, including the background of law enforcement – which he says gave him the credibility of his loved ones to other major broadcasters – as well as his exciting style and early support for Trump.
“When Trump was in the presidency, Bonjino was continuing in the morning on Fox and he would construct the president with any of the things he did or did not do, then Trump sees this and then tweet about Bongino and often talking about him and Osnos said in an interview in 2022:” The White House, According to the sources.
The Bongino file continued to rise throughout the first period of Trump, as the successful podcast increased. Hosted a show on the web channel of the National Venice Association, NRATV, Less than a year In 2018.
He said in one clip, “My whole life is now about possessing Lips.” Republic of Republic networks.
In 2019, he launched Bongino reportThe news assembly site in the style of DRUDGE report. In the same year, Bongino officially Join Fox News As a shareholder.
After the death of the Rush Limbake program in the conservative dialog program in 2021, PodCast Network Cumulus Media Bongino took advantage of it to take over. It also started hosting the Fox show Uncommon On Saturday nights, he disturbed his work until he stopped the network in 2023 about what he described as failed contract negotiations.
Bongino has also published about Half Dznah BooksSome of his time in the secret service and others about the first Trump administration, with titles including It is absolved: failed to end President Donald Trump from the swamp and Follow the money: the deep, shocking status contacts of the anti -samer.
He was criticized for publishing wrong information
Wrong information experts say Bongino has used its platform to spread conspiracy theories and lies, including about Muller investigationCovid-19s and the loss of elections in Trump 2020.
Institute of Strategic Dialogue Bongino was martyred As one of the main right -wing figures who pay false claims to fraud in the voters leading to the 2020 elections. Trump’s lies continued to amplify the election theft, which led the Human Rights Group Afaz to name one of the best five.Their excessive factors of the wrong information in the elections“In the weeks that followed.
NPR reported in 2021 that Ashley Babit, a Trump supporter, who was shot dead by the American Capitol on January 6, stormed the 6 -time retweeting of Bongino since last February.
Bongino also found himself in hot water on his position on Covid-19 reserves. In late 2021, he is Threaten His radio program on the state of Komulus for the media – although pollinating itself.
Bongino He announced in his radio program In October 2020, he was diagnosed with Mifoma Hodgkin. He said Megain Kelly in 2024 He was in remission for two years.
Bongino Permanently From YouTube in 2022 after violating the wrong information policy by publishing a video that wondering about the effectiveness of masks. After this decision, Google Stop submitting ads On Bongino.
Bongino Over and over again criticize Agency It has now been exploited to assist in supervision, including his description of the Federal Bureau of Investigations “Missing, Broken” and “Informed Informed” in A. The length of 2022 monologue In the FOX program, in which the FBI inspection of the Trump housing in Florida-a court inspection related to an investigation into his dealings with classified documents-as the final straw.
“I mean, when I say that, it’s time to clean this FBI’s house,” he said. “They burned every last piece of faith and confidence in the Americans who love freedom.”