Dan Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI, is threatening to leave the bureau if Attorney General Pam Bondi remains on the job, a source close to Bongino tells The Daily Wire.
Bongino is reportedly furious with Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which has led many to believe he could walk away from the job that he took in February. The source close to Bongino said that he’s effectively issued an ultimatum, saying he won’t work alongside Bondi.
Bongino left a lucrative career in broadcasting to take the job in the Trump administration. He was not present at the FBI on Friday, after a reported spat with the attorney general earlier this week over the Epstein situation.
The rift between Bongino and Bondi intensified on Wednesday, days after the Department of Justice announced there was no evidence to prove that child rapist Jeffrey Epstein had a client list, had blackmailed powerful people, or had been murdered. Bondi had promised to reveal major details in the case five months ago, when there were no massive revelations to bring forward.
The deputy FBI director, who raised questions about Epstein’s death before he was in the Trump administration, said in May that his review of the file and hours of video recording from Epstein’s jail proved that the child abuser committed suicide. FBI Director Kash Patel also said that the evidence the bureau has reviewed shows that Epstein was not murdered.
A source close to the Justice Department told The Daily Wire that Patel also wants Bondi gone, and that he would consider departing alongside Bongino. The source also said that Patel wants Bondi to unseal more documents.
Now, Bongino is considering sending in his resignation over the fallout with Bondi. While it remains unclear if Bongino will step down, his normally active official social media account has been quiet since Wednesday, when his frustration with Bondi reportedly boiled over.
One source close to Bongino predicted to Axios, “He ain’t coming back.” Trump administration officials, however, are saying that Bongino remains on the job.
Bondi was criticized after stating in February that she had Epstein’s client list on her desk and then walking that statement back earlier this week when the DOJ revealed that it did not find evidence that a client list exists. The DOJ and FBI were also criticized after releasing over 10 hours of video footage from the hallway attached to Epstein’s jail cell when people noticed that there was one minute of footage missing from the tape.
“In February, I did an interview on Fox, and it’s been getting a lot of attention because … I was asked a question about the ‘client list’ and my response was, ‘It’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file, along with the JFK, MLK files as well,” Bondi said during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “That’s what I meant by that.”
During that same Cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump blasted a reporter for asking Bondi about the Epstein case.
“That is unbelievable. … I mean I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this when we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas,” Trump said. “It just seems like a desecration.”
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‘Dangle Sweet Nothings’: Megyn Kelly Urges Trump To Focus On Pam Bondi Before Epstein ‘Hornet’s Nest’ Blows Up
“She is the reason that things are unraveling around this story right now that virtually all of the Republican Party cares deeply about.”
SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly told Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Friday that President Donald Trump should pay attention to Attorney General Pam Bondi before the “hornet’s nest” surrounding the “Epstein Files” blows up.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly said Sunday that deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had no “client list” and there was no foul play in his death. Bondi has received massive pushback. While speaking to Kirk at TPUSA’s Student Action Summit in Florida, Kelly said she believes Trump has not been focused on the issue due to a plethora of other matters.
“I don’t think President Trump is focused on this. He’s focused on a lot of other things which are going great, and he needs to be focused on those other things. Jeffrey Epstein’s not the most important thing on his agenda by any stretch of the imagination,” Kelly said. “I just don’t think this has captured his attention quite yet. But it needs to because it’s starting to create a real hornet’s nest within the administration, and, I’ve got to be honest, I blame Pam Bondi.”
“I have nothing — yes, incompetence, yes. I have nothing against Pam Bondi as a human being,” Kelly added. “I was fine with her nomination and her confirmation, and she’s been loyal to the president, and I get that President Trump needs a loyal attorney general, but there are a lot of other people who can be loyal and competent in that job.”
Trump vowed to show transparency on cases such as Epstein’s as well as the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. Public demand to release the remaining Epstein files had built. By February, Bondi appeared on Fox News’ Jesse Watters, saying the “files” were on her desk and that the public would see “a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, [and] a lot, a lot of information.”
Just a day later, on Feb. 27, Bondi came under fire from the public after giving conservative influencers a binder labeled “Epstein Files: Phase 1.” With the information in the binder placed under a brief embargo, it was later revealed that the files contained little new information.
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“She is the reason that things are unraveling around this story right now that virtually all of the Republican Party cares deeply about. It’s also true that Dan Bongino and Kash Patel had questions about Epstein before they took office, OK, before they went to the FBI. But once they joined the FBI, they said nothing. They kept their mouths shut about Epstein,” Kelly said.
“You have not seen them except for one joint appearance with Dan and Kash on Fox. Who have you seen? Pam Bondi. She has never missed an opportunity to go on television and dangle sweet nothings that might be coming your way,” Kelly said. “Try to lead you to believe that she’s got it. It’s on her desk. It’s coming tomorrow. You’re gonna see something on Epstein. And it was a tease. So you either believe that Pam Bondi was telling the truth then or that she’s telling the truth now, but both cannot be true.”
After public scrutiny over the fiasco, Bondi appeared on Fox News again in March, telling Sean Hannity that the files she had were given to her by the FBI. The attorney general claimed that a “source” told her that more “evidence” was sitting “in the Southern District of New York” and the FBI officially had the remaining files.
Bondi said FBI Director Kash Patel would give her a “detailed report” as to why the “documents and evidence had been withheld” from the DOJ and vowed to release the information with redactions.
“It’s infuriating that these people thought that they could sit on this information, but they can’t,” Bondi told Hannity. “And when we redact things, Sean, what we’re going to do is not just pull pages out like they used to do. If something’s redacted, you will know the line, and you will know why it’s redacted, the victim’s name, identifying information of a victim.”
The public continues to demand full transparency from the administration, with some calling for Bondi’s resignation.
Epstein died in 2019 at the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center. The deceased pedophile’s brother Mark came forward to raise concerns about whether his brother killed himself. That year, Mark Epstein hired forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who told Fox News that Epstein’s autopsy appeared more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging.
In response to all the speculation about how Epstein died, the DOJ released more than 10 hours of full “raw and enhanced” footage from the correctional center. Speculations continued, however, after WIRED reviewed the video’s metadata and released a report Friday saying the “raw” footage was likely edited.
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