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Mother Jones reports: On Tuesday, Dan Bongino, the newly named deputy director of the FBI continued to hold forth on his eponymous daily podcast, this time focused on defending President Donald Trump’s Oval Office attack on Ukraine’s president. But first, Bongino offered a word from a sponsor: “Big Brother is watching you,” he said, noting it had been 10 years …

The far-right Moonie Times reports: FBI leadership is starting an investigation into the origins of the agency’s plan a decade ago to infiltrate the campaign of presidential candidate Donald Trump using two female undercover “honeypot” agents. The off-the-books investigation, launched in 2015 by FBI Director James B. Comey, was revealed by an agency whistleblower in a protected disclosure to the …

Time Magazine reports: President Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Kash Patel had tapped Dan Bongino to be second-in-command at the FBI, after the Senate confirmed Patel as the bureau’s new director last week. Bongino, like many new leaders across the Trump Administration including Patel, represents a radical departure from tradition for his role. The FBI deputy director, which does …

“Everybody is going to take a little bit of a kick in the stomach here. Everyone. You want to be statesmen in the spirit of our revolutionary forefathers who gave up everything to fight the world’s greatest empire at the time — the British Empire? “We’re just asking you to sacrifice for a little bit for the long-term prosperity of …

CNN reports: Donald Trump is considering a right-wing media personality, people who have served on his US Secret Service detail, as well as others to run the agency that has been plagued by its failure to preempt two alleged assassination attempts on Trump this summer, sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking tell CNN. Podcaster Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service …

The Washington Post reports: More than two dozen popular podcasts have aired claims preemptively casting doubt on the integrity of the 2024 election, disseminating unsubstantiated claims on a popular medium that operates largely outside the view of tech industry monitors. “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “The Ben Shapiro Show,” “The Charlie Kirk Show” and “The Dan Bongino Show” are among 26 …

Politico reports: Conservative media personality and former Fox News host Dan Bongino was spotted getting forcibly removed from Cucina Palm Beach by several restaurant employees close to midnight on Friday. Pic Asked for comment, Bongino texted Daniel Lippman: “That’s an absolutely FASCINATING take on what really happened. Does Politico support physical violence against women? You’ll have to tune in to …

“I don’t buy this rank and file crap either. Throw it right in the garbage. I don’t buy it one bit. I was a Secret Service agent, I was the rank-and-file, me. “And you know what, I saw something I didn’t like. And I left. Every single person involved — no ‘I was just doing my job.’ You’re full of …

Mediaite reports: In a segment designed to portray large cities run by liberal politicians as unsafe and unhealthy, Dan Bongino’s Unfiltered showed a map of the U.S. that highlighted the “Top Ten Most Unhealthy U.S. Cities.” But there’s a problem. According to WalletHub – the source that Unfiltered cited in its graphic – the 10 cities featured in the graphic …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Dan Bongino’s website has been temporarily suspended from monetizing with Google ads over “persistently” breaching the company’s guidelines on publishing COVID-19 misinformation. “We have strict publisher policies in place that explicitly prohibit misleading and harmful content around the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrably false claims about our elections. When publishers persistently breach our policies, …

The Hill reports: YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension. The Fox host uploaded a video to his main channel while his secondary channel, which primarily hosted short clips from his digital radio show, was actively suspended for violating YouTube’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. “When a channel receives …

More performative “outrage” for the cultists: “If I said I was surprised here I’d be lying,” said Bongino of being suspended. “We knew it was just a matter of time before the tyrannical, free-speech hating, bullshit, big tech shithole you work for, would try to silence us. I anxiously waited for this moment however, as I’ve said on my show …

The Hill reports: YouTube took action against conservative commentator Dan Bongino’s channel Friday, suspending it for violating the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy and demonetizing it for at least 30 days. The week-long posting suspension stems from a video where Bongino said that masks are “useless” in stopping the spread of the disease. YouTube’s COVID-19 policy specifically prohibits content denying the …

The Washington Post reports: Two months ago, Dan Bongino sounded ready to give up one of the best slots in conservative talk radio over his objection to his employer’s coronavirus vaccine mandate. “You can have me, or you can have the mandate, but you can’t have both,” he said on Oct. 18, threatening to stop hosting his three-hour program on …

Media Matters has the transcript: Liberalism is a cult, it is — it is now a religion. It is a cult. These people are idiots. They are not smart. They know this is going to lead to mass economic dislocation. And probably some civil disobedience like they haven’t seen. And they push forward anyway. Elections aren’t going to fix this. …

“Now, I should tell you, that guy threatening to quit over a vaccine mandate is in fact fully vaccinated. And a part of me wants to give him credit for sticking to his principles and at the very least calling out his employer over its vaccine policy. “Something that as we have noted repeatedly people like Tucker Carlson don’t have …

“I’ve got a bad temper and I don’t want to be working for anybody. So I worked for myself and I choose who to partner with, so I partner with Cumulus, you’re probably listening to me on a Cumulus station now. “So Cumulus, for some stupid reason, thought it would be a really good idea to do a vaccine mandate. …

The Insider reports: In trying to make a point about “cancel culture,” actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried evoked “old time lynch mobs” in a promo that aired on Fox News Monday morning. Gottfried, who lost his role as the Aflac duck after making tasteless jokes about Japanese people following the nation’s deadly 2011 earthquake, was being interviewed by Dan Bongino, …

Salon reports: Fox News host Dan Bongino has returned to posting on Twitter after telling his supporters in January of this year that he would be leaving and never returning to the “anti-American” social platform after giving it up for Parler, the right-wing alternative where Bongino has claimed to be an investor. Bongino, a rising conservative media heavyweight, even told …

Salon reports: Pro-Trump pundit, conservative media tycoon and self-proclaimed Parler investor Dan Bongino was apparently tricked into being promised shares of Parler by investor and conservative mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, according to former Parler CEO John Matze. This allegation is within a new lawsuit claiming that Bongino and Mercer used bullying and intimidation to take away Matze’s shares in Parler when …