Each day, Donald Trump can no longer take control of American institutions. This time, it is the FBI’s turn to be in the viewfinder of the President of the United States. After appointing as director of the Federal Judicial Police Service Kash Patel, former chief of staff to the Pentagon during his first mandate, the real estate magnate announced on Sunday, on social networks, the appointment of Dan Bongino to Deputy Department FBI. A former secret service agent, who has since been converted into a radio host.
A tour on Fox News, then on Rumble
Born in the Queens borough in New York, Dan Bongino embarked on psychology studies, then business administration. At the age of 21, in 1995, he became a police officer in his hometown. A position he held until 1999. That year, the policeman became a secret service agent at the local New York office. He was then assigned seven years later, in 2006, to the presidential protection division during the second term of George W. Bush. Dan Bongino will remain at this service until the accession of Barack Obama at the White House, and will leave him in May 2011 to present himself in the senatorial elections. A political adventure without success, despite his three candidates for the congress.
Since then, the former secret service agent has become a radio host and podcaster. Until now, he has been animating “The Dan Bongino Show” on Rumble, an unpleasant video platform created in 2013 and renowned for its popularity with authors of conspiracy and extreme right theories. Until April 2023, the host was also present on Fox News. A television channel that the American president particularly likes.
“A man of an incredible love”
The radio host is far from being unknown in the eyes of Donald Trump. He even established a relationship with the current American president during the 2020 presidential campaign, when the Republican candidate invited him to the Oval Office to discuss his strategy. Furthermore, Dan Bongino has built a media empire by adopting pro-Trump opinions, including largely denied assertions on the electoral fraud of this same election. During the victory of Joe Biden, the radio host argued that the Democrats had rigged the results. To the point of being classified as the first five “super propagators of electoral disinformation” by the non -governmental human rights organization Avaaz. Support for the Republican candidate who will earn him to be qualified by the latter as “a man of incredible love and passion” for the United States.
During the Pandemic of COVID-19, the man of Italian origin also criticized the restrictions recommended by the health authorities and qualified the masks of “facial layers”, accusing the liberals of taking advantage of the pandemic to put in Place a government control of “Soviet type”. A position that Donald Trump shares. During the first weeks of the health crisis, the American president had multiplied controversial speaking on the disease. “It’s nothing more than a flu,” he launched. Or again: “It’s the new hoax of the Democrats to harm me!”
A second ally of Donald Trump will therefore be at the top of the FBI, causing more concerns about the lack of experience of those who direct this government agency. Like Dan Bongino, Kash Patel’s journey, current director of the agency, differs from that of its predecessors. They had previously held high-level positions within the Ministry of Justice.
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, at least eight senior FBI officials have been ousted and 1,500 employees and agents should be transferred from the headquarters located in Washington to satellite offices across the country. Other allies of the cantor of Maga (Make America Great Again) could therefore soon join the government agency.