Dan Bongino discovered he actually has to do work at the FBI — and he doesn’t like it
Bongino is describing what anyone in a senior FBI leadership role is expected to endure, particularly at headquarters
Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, appeared to become emotional on live national television Thursday. Not while recalling some gut-wrenching FBI child exploitation case, or a grisly mass shooting crime scene. No, Bongino, a former right-wing podcaster and conspiracy theorist, who is typically a tough-guy poser, went on the Fox News’ morning show “Fox and Friends”to whine about how taxing his new gig is. There’s more here than meets the watery eye.
“I gave up everything for this,” he lamented before adding that FBI Director Kash Patel typically works 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and that “I’m in there at 7:30 in the morning.” Bongino said, “I stare at these four walls all day in D.C., by myself, divorced from my wife — not divorced, but I mean separated, divorced — and it’s hard. I mean, we love each other, and it’s hard to be apart.”
After saying that the job has been tough on his family, he said, “People ask all the time, ‘Do you like it?’ No. I don’t.
