A lot of people were shocked when Trump asked former Fox News personality and podcast host Dan Bongino to serve as the Deputy Director of the FBI, not realizing he has a significant background in law enforcement.
Thus far, the Patel-Bongino partnership has worked well, with Bongino recently announcing what the agency will be working on moving forward.
The FBI has been working hand-in-hand with DHS and ICE to help lock down the border.
Bongino explained, “The workforce has been working overtime on task force operations to remove dangerous illegal aliens from the country. The work continues.
“The message is clear. If you came here illegally to prey on our citizens, your days here are numbered.
“These removal and incarceration operations will dramatically change the crime landscape in the country when combined with the administration’s laser-focus on sealing the border shut. Expect these operations to ramp up, not slow down.”
The FBI has done an exceptional job since Patel has been appointed in tracking down and arresting child predators, having already made more than 750 arrests on this front, and that work will continue.
Bongino stated, “Crimes against children are a priority for the workforce. Operation ‘Restoring Justice,’ where we locked up child predators and 764 subjects, in every part of the country, is just the beginning.
“We are going to take your freedom if you take away a child’s innocence. Think twice if you’ve targeted children, because you’re next.”
Bongino then addressed freeing up information from Congress, including Epstein files, as well as several other high-profile cases the American people have been clamoring to see.
After discussing budgeting and how the agency will move forward, Bongino covered one more issue, and that is the media narrative regarding Kash Patel.
He stated, “I have no desire to sugarcoat this one - it’s been difficult in this new role to stay relatively quiet while certain elements of the media continue to entirely fabricate stories about what we’re doing at the FBI. But that’s part of the job as a public servant. I don’t work for myself anymore, I work for the public.
“And while I can’t address all of the nonsense in this one post, I will address the repeated attacks on Director Patel. The Director’s office is attached to mine. I am in most of the briefings he is in. He spends anywhere between 10-12 hours in the office attending meetings with everyone from foreign heads of law enforcement to our counter-terror teams, and more.
“Any assertion otherwise is a verifiable lie designed to stop our reforms and fracture your trust. I will die on this hill. You are being clearly lied to by people with an agenda, and it’s not your agenda.”
