President Trump said on Sunday night that Dan Bongino, a former New York City police officer and secret service agent, has turned into the right -wing PodCaster, the next deputy director of the Federal Investigation Office.
Mr. Trump, who issued the announcement on his social media, said that the newly installed FBI director, Cash Patel, has appointed Mr. Bongino for the number 2 in the country’s strongest law in the country. The vice -director’s role does not require confirmation in the Senate, which means that two steady loyalists will be installed effectively in the upper tributary of the agency known for the traditions of independence.
This announcement came about an hour after the FBI’s Customer Customer Association informed its members that Mr. Patel had in particular admitted that the next deputy director must be an agent of the Federal Investigation Office, and increases the lack of confidence between the rank and the file.
The FBI did not respond to a comment.
In the past, the FBI managers chose the great experienced agents to manage the office’s operations mainly, a complex and unique job that requires working closely with foreign partners and moving in sensitive investigations.
The choice of Mr. Bongino is a radical and sudden exit from that practice and raises amazing questions about how two people who were not at all have been honored to have ever as agents at the FBI to oversee the powers of monitoring and extensive investigation of an agency of 38,000 people and a budget of about $ 11 billion.
Mr. Patel and Mr. Bongino will represent the least -experienced driving pair in the history of the isolated office of the intervention of the White House. It will also ensure that the office will run men freely with misleading information and embraced partisan policy.
“My whole life is now revolving around LIBS”, Mr. Bongino He said in 2018. He also repeated a popular complaint between the far right that condemns the so -called deep state.
The rise of Mr. Bongino comes at a time of the enormous disturbances of the agency, as the Ministry of Justice has paid some senior executives who have contracts for experience in managing the various departments of the office.
It is unclear what will happen to temporary leaders, Brian Drescol and Robert C. Their initial refusal to join the Ministry of Justice request the names of the office employees who investigated the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, made them love internally, ready, in the opinion of many within the office, to stand up to what was seen as political intervention.
Many were hoping that the two will remain in Washington to help Mr. Patel in the FBI administration
In an internal news message distributed to the agents before the announcement of Mr. Trump, the president of the association, Natalie Para, said that at a meeting in January with Mr. Patel, she and the vice -president of the group, Jane Moro, urged his lieutenant to be “to be” an active special agent, as The case was for 117 years for several convincing reasons. “
And Mr. Patel said, he agreed.
Mr. Patel of Mr. Bongino said as his deputy, as a person who is familiar with the matter said, although it is unclear whether Mr. Trump has also prompted Mr. Bongino.
Mr. Bongino ran to the elected office three times before obtaining popularity as a right commentator.
Mr. Bonjino left a former host of Fox News the network in 2023. In particular, Mr. Trump hosted his program in 2021, at a time when the network – and many of the Robert Murdoch media Empire – tried to run the Trump era page.
On Fox News in December 2021, Geraldo Rivera described the events of January 6 as riots “unleashed, incited and inspired” by Mr. Trump, prompting Mr. Bongino to question his deception. He said: “The background features of the president in which you participate are really disgusting.”
He made his steel style that he made to the stardom on the radio and on social media, where he is It is often a widespread misconception. This includes Publishing falsehood that was stolen in the 2020 electionsClaiming that the masks are not effective in preventing the spread of the Coronaf virus, and to perpetuate the theories of the maze plot and the baseless conspiracy theories that involve a conspiracy by Democrats to spy in Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.
in Interview with New YorkerBetty Higseth, then his colleague at Fox News, and now, the Minister of Defense, has equated Mr. Bongino to a general, like him, he got “served in the information war.”
The news raised questions about how the office will retain its credibility with two men on his head and have a history of publishing exaggerated and misleading information.
In an email to the FBI after confirming, Mr. Patel said: “I will always have your appearance, because you have the appearance of the American people.”
Maggie Haberman The reports contributed.
