FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino vowed on Saturday to uncover the “reality” in a cryptic publish on the social platform X, proclaiming that “we can’t run a Republic like this.”
Bongino stated that he and FBI Director Kash Patel are dedicated to “stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of each regulation enforcement and intelligence operations.”
“It’s a precedence for us. However what I’ve realized in the middle of our correctly predicated and essential investigations into these aforementioned issues, has shocked me right down to my core. We can’t run a Republic like this. I’ll by no means be the identical after studying what I’ve realized,” the deputy director wrote.
It’s unclear what Bongino was referring to. The Hill has reached out to the FBI for extra remark.
Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and podcaster, was on the center of the controversy over the information associated to disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein earlier this month.
The FBI and Justice Division (DOJ) stated in a joint, unsigned memo that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in jail whereas awaiting trial and that he didn’t preserve the so-called “shopper listing.”
Bongino was frustrated with the leaders on the DOJ and the dealing with of the Epstein information earlier in July. He clashed with Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi over the problem and has reportedly weighed resigning from his publish.
A number of days later, regardless of the infighting, President Trump told reporters he nonetheless has confidence in Bongino and that he’s in “fine condition.”
Bongino additionally wrote on Saturday’s X publish that the FBI will conduct “these righteous and correct investigations by the e book and in accordance with the regulation.”
“We’re going to get the solutions WE ALL DESERVE,” Bongino wrote. “As with every investigation, I can’t predict the place it is going to land, however I can promise you an trustworthy and dignified effort at reality. Not ‘my reality,’ or ‘your reality,’ however THE TRUTH.”