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BumRushDaShow

(171,280 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 05:10 AM 13 hrs ago

Dan Bongino Says He Started 'Messing With People' In The FBI To Catch 'Snakes'

Source: Huff Post

Apr 28, 2026, 05:44 PM EDT | Updated 7 hours ago


Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino admitted on Tuesday to making up false information about his day to weed out the “snakes” at the bureau.

“It happened a couple times where they’d say, ‘Oh, you can trust John Smith.’ And you trust John Smith, and then a week later you see a leak in the media and you’d be like, ‘I’m pretty sure that came from John Smith.’ So, I would start, like, messing with people,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on his podcast.

Bongino, who left the FBI in January following speculation of a falling out with now ex-Attorney General Pam Bondi, claimed there were two sides of the bureau.

He called one the “good FBI,” which investigated white-collar and violent crimes, and the other, he said, was “populated” with “snakes,” but quipped that the term was too “nice.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-bongino-fbi-snakes-messing-with-people_n_69f11c7ce4b0e475dfdd2b87

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Dan Bongino Says He Started 'Messing With People' In The FBI To Catch 'Snakes' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 13 hrs ago OP
The kind of boss you hate Lochloosa 12 hrs ago #1
This guy is all waste purr-rat beauty 12 hrs ago #2
white collar crime and snakes Tetrachloride 11 hrs ago #3
Maybe he should look in a mirror. Crowman2009 11 hrs ago #4
Exactly what qualified him to be the FBI Deputy Director? AverageOldGuy 11 hrs ago #5
puffing up his failure. nt Javaman 11 hrs ago #6
Yup...the whole point of getting somebody like Bongino into the FBI was to eliminate the "Deep State" Prairie Gates 8 hrs ago #11
What qualifies any of those nitwits? johnnyplankton 11 hrs ago #7
Dan Bongino is a psychopath. Ray Bruns 11 hrs ago #8
Cool story, bro..... odins folly 10 hrs ago #9
This guy barely lasted a year in a real job Prairie Gates 8 hrs ago #10
Well, isn't he Little Mister Secret Agent Man! N/T tonekat 8 hrs ago #12
Dan weeded himself out 🐍 Clouds Passing 8 hrs ago #13
Great. He'll ride high over his FBI gig for years. Solly Mack 7 hrs ago #14

AverageOldGuy

(4,056 posts)
5. Exactly what qualified him to be the FBI Deputy Director?
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 07:22 AM
11 hrs ago

Daniel John Bongino is an American conservative podcaster, radio host, and law enforcement officer who served as the 20th deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2025 to 2026. He hosted The Dan Bongino Show on Rumble and previously hosted Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on Fox News until April 2023.

Bongino began his career as a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer from 1995 to 1999 before serving as a U.S. Secret Service agent from 1999 to 2011. He later unsuccessfully ran for Congress three times as a Republican. On February 23, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that Bongino had been named the next deputy director of the FBI. He assumed office on March 17, after concluding his commentating roles on March 14.

Very, very thin qualifications. Perfect Trump nominee.

Prairie Gates

(8,356 posts)
11. Yup...the whole point of getting somebody like Bongino into the FBI was to eliminate the "Deep State"
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:13 AM
8 hrs ago

He lasted a year and did nothing, because his entire Deep State narrative is invented nonsense for the MAGA rubes. Unfortunately for Bongino, he still had to get up every morning, put on a suit, and go to the office. That's the part he hated, and why he only lasted a year. He's a fundamentally lazy person.

johnnyplankton

(649 posts)
7. What qualifies any of those nitwits?
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 07:32 AM
11 hrs ago

Except for the ability to stick their noses up a fat orange ass.

odins folly

(622 posts)
9. Cool story, bro.....
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 08:50 AM
10 hrs ago

Tell us again how you were so badass at the job you left, after telling everyone how the things you said before you got tapped to be Kashie’s buttboy were all lies that you were paid to say….

And now are getting paid to say again.


Fuck off asshole…

Prairie Gates

(8,356 posts)
10. This guy barely lasted a year in a real job
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:11 AM
8 hrs ago

He complained about having to get up to go to work and having to work all day. Boo hoo.

He opines and get funded by giant GOP donors who don't care about the quality or ratings of his inane podcasts. A clown.

Solly Mack

(97,123 posts)
14. Great. He'll ride high over his FBI gig for years.
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:56 AM
7 hrs ago

Please, let's continue to elevate the lowest of lows.

Yay, America!

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