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“During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening. “The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But …

The New York Post reports: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was back at work on Monday after a clash with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case left him mulling resignation last week, as The Post previously reported. Multiple sources told CNN that Bongino, 50, did come into the office after taking a personal day …

CNN reports: Several of President Donald Trump’s top officials went to work on Monday with a key question unanswered: would Dan Bongino show up today? The deputy FBI director did not go into the office Friday and largely excommunicated himself from most of his colleagues after a major fallout with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Jeffrey …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump did not say for sure that Dan Bongino is still serving as deputy director of the FBI. “Oh, I think so,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday when asked if the former right-wing podcaster is still No. 2 at the agency. “I spoke to him today,” he added. “Dan Bongino. …

Fox News reports: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was outraged this week during a closed-door White House meeting about the Department of Justice’s review of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case files, according to multiple sources. Bongino raised his voice during a discussion with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles before storming out of the meeting, according to two sources …

Mediaite reports: FBI Director Kash Patel may reportedly join Deputy Director Dan Bongino in resigning if Attorney General Pam Bondi keeps her job. Bongino and Bondi clashed over President Donald Trump’s administration’s handling of the case of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The deputy director, according to The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan, had also made it clear that he …

The New York Times reports: The bitter blame game over the handling of the investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein erupted in public on Friday between Attorney General Pam Bondi and the senior leadership of the F.B.I., particularly the bureau’s deputy director, Dan Bongino. Ms. Bondi and her allies believe that Mr. Bongino, who parlayed a he-man image and …

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire reports: Dan Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI, is threatening to leave the bureau if Attorney General Pam Bondi remains on the job, a source close to Bongino tells The Daily Wire. Bongino is reportedly furious with Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which has led many to believe …

Axios reports: FBI deputy director Dan Bongino took a day off from work Friday after clashing at the White House with Attorney General Pam Bondi over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, four sources familiar with the conflict told Axios. The dispute erupted Wednesday amid the fallout of the administration walking back its claims about Epstein by determining the …

Axios reports: President Trump’s Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a “client list” or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios. The administration is releasing a video — in both raw and “enhanced” versions — that it says …

NBC News reports: The FBI’s top two leaders said in interviews on Fox News that the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, and they promised to release a surveillance video from the federal jail in New York City where Epstein was found dead. Officials in the first Trump administration ruled that Epstein’s death in 2019 …

Fox News reports: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino stated Wednesday evening that the bureau is examining issues related to the origin of COVID-19, though he did not confirm the existence of a formal investigation into a cover-up. Bongino made the remarks in a post on X amid growing media attention on a newly identified COVID-19 strain. He did not identify …

The Seattle Times reports: In the days after a chaotic confrontation between police and protesters at a conservative Christian rally on Capitol Hill, several groups have questioned why the demonstration was held at Cal Anderson Park and how the city could have better prepared. The rally, advocating “freedom from same sex attraction” and ”the sacrality of biological gender,” was permitted …

The Hill reports: The FBI’s No. 2 official said Monday the agency had either reopened or shifted resources toward “a number of cases of potential public corruption,” including the leaked Supreme Court draft decision on abortion and an incident involving cocaine found at the White House during former President Biden’s term. “I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and …

MARIA BARTIROMO: “You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don’t believe it.” KASH PATEL: “Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who’s been in that prison system, who has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center. Who’s been in segregated housing. You know a …

Mother Jones reports: On Tuesday, Dan Bongino, the newly named deputy director of the FBI continued to hold forth on his eponymous daily podcast, this time focused on defending President Donald Trump’s Oval Office attack on Ukraine’s president. But first, Bongino offered a word from a sponsor: “Big Brother is watching you,” he said, noting it had been 10 years …

The far-right Moonie Times reports: FBI leadership is starting an investigation into the origins of the agency’s plan a decade ago to infiltrate the campaign of presidential candidate Donald Trump using two female undercover “honeypot” agents. The off-the-books investigation, launched in 2015 by FBI Director James B. Comey, was revealed by an agency whistleblower in a protected disclosure to the …

Time Magazine reports: President Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Kash Patel had tapped Dan Bongino to be second-in-command at the FBI, after the Senate confirmed Patel as the bureau’s new director last week. Bongino, like many new leaders across the Trump Administration including Patel, represents a radical departure from tradition for his role. The FBI deputy director, which does …

“Everybody is going to take a little bit of a kick in the stomach here. Everyone. You want to be statesmen in the spirit of our revolutionary forefathers who gave up everything to fight the world’s greatest empire at the time — the British Empire? “We’re just asking you to sacrifice for a little bit for the long-term prosperity of …

CNN reports: Donald Trump is considering a right-wing media personality, people who have served on his US Secret Service detail, as well as others to run the agency that has been plagued by its failure to preempt two alleged assassination attempts on Trump this summer, sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking tell CNN. Podcaster Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service …