Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino fired back at Fox News over a report suggesting that he could be on the way out at the Bureau, an anonymously sourced piece of “garbage reporting” by the network that he once worked for.
The fiery former podcaster appeared on Monday’s edition of “The Megyn Kelly Show” and during the interview host Megyn Kelly asked him about the report which was largely about FBI Director Kash Patel who is taking fire over the response to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but it also stated that Bongino’s days are “more likely numbered” than those of his boss.
Kelly referred to the report that came on the day that former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was to be sworn in as co-deputy director, a “new power-sharing role” with Bongino. The report by the network’s White House correspondent, Jacqui Heinrich, cited three unnamed sources and his previously threatening to quit the FBI in July amid a “feud” with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Jeffrey Epstein matter.
(Video: Megyn Kelly)
“The headline is that ‘knives are out’ for Kash Patel. It ends with something about you, Dan, saying three sources also point out ‘Dan Bongino’s days are more likely numbered than Patel’s, as he threatened to quit amid fallout from the Epstein feud with Bondi,’” Kelly said, giving him the chance to respond to the report.
“So just to be clear, I’ve read the report,” he responded. “I spoke to Jacqui, everyone on the record you just cited, on the record, said the exact opposite. You can read the report yourself.”
“So just to be clear, an off-the-record person who was not willing to put their name to any of this, who may not like what the director and I are doing here, off the record, off the record said, ‘Wow, these guys are in a lot of trouble.’ On the record, everyone from the president to Todd to Pam to everyone else says the exact opposite. So your story, not you, but the story is what? Knives are out? Where are the knives? Who’s holding the knives? The knives are out?” he continued.
“If the White House was unhappy and President Trump was unhappy, you and I have known the president a long time, you really believe the president’s not just gonna call?” Bongino asked.
“Do you think he’s the type to not call you? So I’m a little skeptical of garbage reporting about unnamed sources who may not like what I just told you, who are saying, ‘Oh my gosh, the knives are out,’ when everybody on the record is saying, “What are you talking about? Everything’s going great,” the deputy director concluded.
“Any suggestion that I was brought in to replace anyone in leadership at the FBI or spin my appointment into a sign of division is simply false – I am honored to serve the FBI and Department of Justice as we work together to keep our nation safe,” Bailey said in a statement to Fox News.
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