Between Monday and Tuesday mornings, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were beside themselves, enraged over President Trump’s decision to select our friend (and 2022 MRC Bulldog Award winner) Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director, painting his “no experience” at the agency as a national security threat and insinuating wholesale changes could thwart their ability to stop terror attacks.
The CBS Evening News was the tip of the smear. Co-anchor Maurice DuBois made sure to point out from the onset that there’s “[n]o Senate confirmation necessary” for Bongino, to which arrogant co-anchor John Dickerson huffed, “neither, apparently, is FBI experience” even though Bongino’s a “former secret service agent and New York City police officer.”
But, to the liberal media, those careers in law enforcement meant absolutely zilch.
Having January 6 investigations robbed a large part of meaning in his professional life, Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane came out enraged that Bongino will join the FBI after years “tout[ing] his army of followers, millions of talk radio and podcast listeners who share his devotion to President Trump, his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, and his pledge to own the libs.”
A friend of the Deep State, MacFarlane fretted FBI Director Kash Patel and Trump bucked the FBI Agents Association’s demand a current agent be named to the number-two spot.
MacFarlane went to Never Trumper Gregg Nunziata to voice his concerns for him, including the doomsday prediction of mass resignations and an inability for the agency to function as Americans expect (click “expand”):
NUNZIATA: You want someone who can build faith. Instead, he’s chosen someone who is really a radical, conspiracy theorist.
MACFARLANE: Gregg Nunziata is a former aide to then-Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.
NUNZIATA: You’re going to see career professionals leaving.
MACFARLANE [TO NUNZIATA]: Do you think there will be resignations?
NUNZIATA: No, I do think — I do think it will lead to that. It will be harder to recruit and attract the kind of people that the FBI requires.
MACFARLANE: Bongino steps in amid turmoil with agency who worked January 6 case is under scrutiny themselves.
BONGINO [on 02/06/25]: If you swore to uphold the constitution of the United States as a FBI agent and engaged in a tyrannical investigation against Donald Trump with partisan intent and not the Constitution in mind, you do not deserve your job.
MacFarlane explained back live that Bongino “can touch any part of the agency he wants to” and went right into some doomcasting himself by suggesting Bongino would meddle in any and all “big case[s],” especially “a politically charged case.”
He went as far as implying moves Patel and Bongino make could put the country’s safety at risk:
[I]n just the first few hours, John, a pretty big change. FBI has ordered more than 1,000 agents and employees who work here in Washington, D.C., to be reassigned to field offices, outposts all across the country. And Kash Patel has argued he wants more agents in the community, but, Maurice and John, this could destabilize things, because more resignations, retirements and really thin the herd of agents supposed to protect America from terrorists.
Hours earlier on Monday’s CBS Mornings, chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes described Bongino as “a fierce defender of the President,” “conservative podcaster, and former Secret Service agent” who “lacks any FBI experience.” On CBS Mornings Plus, Cordes said this pick has “generat[ed] some controversy[.]”
Monday’s Good Morning America exhibited similar disgust with ABC co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos declaring Bongino to be merely “right-wing podcaster, election denier.”
Senior political correspondent Rachel Scott added “he has pushed false claims about the 2020 election, conspiracy theories about January 6” and thus “sends a strong message and a signal about the way that the FBI will now be reshaped. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, two of the harshest critics, they will now be leading the department, George.”
“Neither — neither with any experience at the FBI,” Stephanopoulos replied.
Hours later on ABC’s World News Tonight, former Biden regime apple polisher Mary Bruce decried Bongino as “the far-right podcaster” and “loyal Trump supporter” who has “stoked conspiracy theories about January 6 and has been deeply critical of the FBI.”
On Tuesday morning, NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles offered a blatant, intentional slip of the tongue on Today when he said Elon Musk and not President Trump had made “a controversial move at the FBI, appointing Dan Bongino, a former police officer and Secret Service officer with no experience at the FBI, as the deputy director of the agency, normally reserved for a career agent.”
He continued:
Bongino has used his conservative media platform to peddle conspiracy theories, falsely cast doubt on the 2020 election results, and attack the FBI, saying it needs to be disbanded. And Bongino’s appointment as deputy director was a shock to the rank and file agents at the FBI. The FBI Agents Association had circulated a memo to their workforce that revealed that the new director, Kash Patel, had promised to appoint a career agent to the post. Meanwhile, Bongino has promised to help “reestablish faith in the institution.”
A day earlier on Today, senior White House correspondent Garrett Haake fretted the ascension of the “pro-Trump podcast” meant there’s “two Trump loyalists at the top of the FBI” and that the Trump administration failed to follow the demands “of the FBI Agents Association, who had argued that the deputy director job should be filled by a career special agent, as is typically the case.
