Trump Picks Whackjob Conspiracy Theorist Podcaster To Be Second In Command At FBI

Donald Trump has picked conspiracy-peddling podcaster Dan Bongino to serve as the Deputy Director of the FBI immediately under Kash Patel. Bongino has no FBI experience, but he has plenty of experience trying to “own the libs” on social media while also spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and COVID. His COVID lies were so bad that he was actually banned from YouTube several years ago, and now he brings his “I hate the left” mentality to the top law enforcement agency in the country. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what this means.

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On Sunday evening on Truth social, Donald Trump announced that he was putting Dan Bonino, former Fox News host, former host of NRA TV and a conspiracy peddling podcaster. He was nominating him to be the Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In other words, he's going to be the number two at the FBI directly under Kosh Patel, who of course was confirmed just a few days ago. So we have Kosh Patel, who has no FBI experience running the FBI now followed up by Dan Bonino, who of course has served as a police officer and a secret service agent. However, he has no FBI experience at all either. So the two people in charge of the top law enforcement agency in the country have no experience with the agency at all. The only thing Bonino really has real experience with is trying to own the libs on Twitter, because as he's told us multiple times over the last few years alone, that's his only goal in life.

Medi Hassan put out a wonderful list of all of the horrible things that Bonino has done. And of course, there are all reasons why we should be terrified of him at the FBI. But, uh, as Hassan pointed out in 2018, Bongino tweeted out, quote, my entire life right now is about owning the Libs. That's it. Now, here's the thing. I wasn't able to see this post from Bongino in 2018 because he blocked me on Twitter. Even though at the time I was blocked, I had never tweeted at him. I had never responded to him. I wasn't following him. I had never mentioned his name in a video that I had ever done. Not once had this man's name ever come out of my mouth online on a video, on a podcast, in an interview. Never talked about him or thought about him. But I found out one day when he was having an argument with Jan er, I went to click on his profile and it said, you were blocked.

So Dan Bonino, now the number two at the FBI blocked me on Twitter, even though I'd never had any interactions with him, ever. That's, that's what a tough guy he is. Right? Take a guy who at the time had a couple hundred thousand followers on YouTube and just block him because why? That makes no sense to me, and I would still love answers to that, Dan. Uh, but also Hassan pointed out in 2023, Dan Bongino tweeted, quote, the FBI is no longer a law enforcement entity. It is an APO research firm for Democrats with an armed political enforcement branch. He said he wanted to disband the FBI, he's called it the deep state left wing, FBI. And last year, he said, I don't trust these people at all. Fantastic. Right? Totally. The kind of guy you want running the top law enforcement agency in the country,

Or at least running it right behind Kash Patel, who, as we all know, wants to weaponize it and used it against his political enemies, which I'm sure Dan Bonito will totally go along with. Thi this is terrifying. This might be the most terrifying duo in the federal government, even worse than Donald Trump and Elon Musk, because these people have real enforcement power. They're going to purge the entire FBI Patel and Bongino, and they're going to use it to go after Trump's political enemies and their political enemies. Thi this is not hyperbole. This is not overstepping. This is what will happen under these nutcases. And there's one more, one more post. This one's from May 30th, 2024, right? Trump had just been convicted. Here's what Bonino put on Twitter and bear with me 'cause there's some languages here, uh, language I should say. Uh, and I'm just, I'm just gonna say it.