"His appointment as deputy to the newly confirmed director, Kash Patel, marks the first time in the bureau's 117-year history that the second-in-command post has not been held by one of its senior agents.
"Donald Trump just named far-right MAGA podcaster Dan Bongino, a notorious conspiracy theorist who promoted the lie that the 2020 election was stolen,' to serve as Deputy Director of the FBI. God help us all," posted the X account Republicans Against Trump.
Gregg Nunziata, a Republican and former general counsel to Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, warned that Bongino was a more extreme appointment than Patel " who has portrayed the bureau as an arm of a so-called "deep state" dedicated to undermining Trump and has vowed to turn its Washington headquarters into a museum.
"Kash Patel should have been a redline. Bongino is what you get when [Republican] Senators fail to do their jobs and say no to Patel," Nunziata wrote."
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"The Trump Admin is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled, partisan henchmen. It's unacceptable and conservatives need to say so."
Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator for Connecticut, wrote:
"Trump has chosen grifters to lead the FBI. Dan Bongino's entire show is telling listeners the world is ending so they buy the dozens of survivalist products he sells. I know this feels like a bad dream. It isn't."
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He's like the 20th former Fox host Trump's appointed... He really does think this is just a Sequel to his The Apprentice show.
