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Bongino’s appointment means two staunch allies of the US president will lead the country’s principal federal law enforcement agency.
ADVERTISEMENTUS President Donald Trump has named Dan Bongino, a conservative commentator and former Secret Service agent, as deputy director of the FBI. Trump announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”.Bongino thanked Trump on X as he shared the president’s original post. The 49-year-old will serve under newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel, who was sworn in at the White House on Friday. The deputy role does not require Senate confirmation.This puts two staunch Trump allies atop the country’s leading federal law enforcement agency amid fears from Democrats that the president may seek to target his adversaries. Bongino served on the presidential details during the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush, before becoming a popular right-wing pundit. He became one of the leading personalities in the “Make America Great Again” or MAGA political movement to spread false information about the 2020 election.Unusually for a pick for a top FBI role, Bongino has no prior experience in the agency. However, he worked for the New York Police Department from 1997 to 1999, before joining the Secret Service. He ran for a US Senate seat twice in Maryland and once in Florida between 2012 and 2016, but lost all three races.Bongino began doing commentary on Fox News more than a decade ago, and had a Saturday night show with the network from 2021 to 2023. He hosts The Dan Bongino Show, which is the 56th-ranked podcast in the US, according to Spotify. Trump said on Sunday that Bongino is “willing and prepared to give up” the podcast “in order to serve”.During an interview on his podcast ahead of last year’s US elections, Bongino asked Trump to commit to forming a commission to reform the Secret Service, calling it a “failed” agency and criticising it over the two assassination attempts last year.In a more recent episode of the podcast, Bongino praised the appointment of Patel and criticised Democrats who had opposed his nomination, saying that the new director was “there for one reason: to clean this place up”.Patel and Bongino will lead an FBI gripped by turmoil as the Justice Department has recently forced out a group of senior officials and made an unusual demand for the names of thousands of agents who participated in investigations related to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol.The new director has spoken of his desire to make major changes at the FBI, including a reduced footprint in Washington and a renewed emphasis on traditional crime-fighting duties rather than the intelligence-gathering work that has come to define its mandate.Additional sources • AP
