The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files flap is cascading, further roiling a Justice Department and FBI that have struggled for months to appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base.
This dude has a quirky past according to wikipedia:
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.
He graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School,[4] a Catholic all-male high school in Jamaica, Queens, in 1992. He attended Queens College, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Pennsylvania State University.[5]
Bongino worked as a police officer for the New York City Police Department from 1995 to 1999.[6]
Bongino joined the United States Secret Service in 1999 as a special agent.[6][2] In 2002 he left the New York Field Office to become an instructor at the Secret Service Training Academy in Beltsville, Maryland. In 2006, he was assigned to the Presidential Protection Division during George W. Bush’s second term. He remained on protective duty after Barack Obama became president, leaving in May 2011 to run for the U.S. Senate.[6][7]
This dude has a quirky past according to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bongino