Trump names right-wing commentator as deputy FBI director

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Trump names right-wing commentator as deputy FBI director

US President Donald Trump has appointed right-wing commentator Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI.

Trump said Bongino was “a man of incredible love and passion for our Country” and would serve under newly-confirmed FBI director Kash Patel.

Bongino is ex-NYPD and Secret Service and also worked as presidential protection for two presidents – George W Bush and Barack Obama.

He hosts a self-titled podcast whose

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posts often attract more attention than those of Fox News and CNN combined.

“Thank you Mr. President, Attorney General Bondi, and Director Patel,” Mr. Bongino wrote on X in a post after Trump’s announcement.

Mr Bongino, who has run for Congress three times, hosted the now-president on his podcast, the Dan Bongino Show, in October ahead of the 2024 election.

About his new career as a prolific conservative political commentator, he said in 2018: “My life is all about owning the libs now.”

He is “willing a prepared to give up” the podcast “in order to serve”, Trump said in his announcement on Sunday.

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