Nicole Silverio White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt berated the media for downplaying FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s career in law enforcement during Tuesday’s press briefing. The media has amped up Bongino’s role as a conservative podcaster after President Donald Trump tapped him to serve in his new role on Sunday night.

Several have noted that Dan Bongino, in leaving his lucrative world of podcasting, is giving up a lot of money to become deputy director of the FBI. And one can say that about many of Donald Trump’s appointments and the president himself: if their only motivation was money,

In a memo on Sunday evening, the FBI Agents Association told its 14,000 members that new director Kash Patel had assured them that he would follow tradition and name a career special agent with operational expertise as his deputy director.

Monday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, RCP national correspondent Susan Crabtree, who was one of the first to report that former Secret Service agent and radio star Dan Bongino has been appointed to

The far-right podcaster has condemned the FBI as “irredeemably corrupt." No wonder so many former and current agents are upset about Dan Bongino's ascension.

Dan Bongino, the conservative podcaster named deputy director of the FBI, has spent the past seven years publicly criticizing the agency he will now help run.

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Dan Bongino, a conservative talk show host, will be the next deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Bongino is a former Secret Service agent turned podcaster. Trump said he will serve as the FBI’s deputy director, a role traditionally held by career agents.

Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent turned right-wing podcaster, has been named the next deputy director of the FBI, President Donald Trump announced Sunday, the latest outsider media personality the president has chosen to be in a significant position of power overseeing large branches of complex government organizations.