Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino recently revealed the cause behind his viral social media post last summer about being “shocked” to his “core” by the truth behind the agency’s past investigations.
During an episode of “The Vince Show” on Monday, Bongino told Vince Coglianese, the editorial director for The Daily Caller and host of “The Vince Show,” that he was prompted to post his viral social media statement after reading documents pertaining to Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s controversial investigation into President Donald Trump over allegations that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.
Last July, Bongino shared a statement on X, formerly Twitter, saying, “The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us.”
“But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core,” Bongino added at the time. “We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.”
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During Bongino’s interview on Monday, he explained how his social media post was in reaction to documents he read about Crossfire Hurricane and how he was “blown away” at the “guardrails” that “broke down so quickly” in the FBI.
“It was basically about Crossfire. I was just reading some stuff about Crossfire,” Bongino told Coglianese. “I was blown away … I lived in this kind of tiny apartment in D.C.…And I’m sitting there, and I’m thinking to myself…I couldn’t believe it happened here. You know, Vince, like having been a Secret Service agent, a police officer, and I hadn’t been in the FBI role that long, but it had been a few months.”
“I just thought, gosh, these guardrails just broke down because of people. People are guardrails, not robots … Human beings are guardrails. You know, people are power. And I was just stunned at how many people just let this — just the incredibly poor decision-making,” the former FBI deputy director added. “It blew my mind … I got up the next day, and I just fired that out … I was really shaken by the whole thing, how these guardrails broke down so quickly. It was astonishing.”
Bongino, who left his position at the FBI earlier this month, also shared on Monday that he would likely discuss the information he discovered about Crossfire Hurricane “within reason” on his upcoming show on Rumble, which is scheduled to launch on February 2.
