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Bulwark Takes

BREAKING: Dan Bongino to Resign as FBI Deputy Director

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Sommer give their takes on the news that Dan Bongino is on his way out at the FBI. They discuss Bongino’s bizarre tenure, his struggle to reconcile conspiracy culture with reality, and what comes next.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein. I'm managing editor at the Bullwork, and I am here on Wednesday afternoon, giving you a pre-recording to something we already recorded.

0:09.0

Will Summer and I spoke this afternoon to do a bulwark take on Dan Bongino. We were talking about reports that Dan was going to be exiting his position as deputy director of the FBI sometime in January.

0:22.6

Well, it turns out between when we hit record, when we hit stop, and before we got to the point of publishing that video,

0:27.9

Dan broke the news himself. He went on Twitter to reveal the following. Quote, I will be leaving

0:32.6

my position with the FBI in January. I want to thank President Trump, A.G. Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve

0:40.2

with purpose.

0:41.6

Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you.

0:45.7

God bless America and all those who defend her, American flag emoji.

0:50.0

Well, should you still watch the video with me and Will now that you know the news?

0:53.3

I think so.

1:12.5

Because in the video, we talked about what went wrong from Dan Bongino while he was at the FBI, whether he can actually successfully segue back to his career as a conspirator-in-minded podcaster and what the future has for his old buddy, Cash Patel, who may be on Thinidonis himself. Stay tuned, watch the video, subscribe to the feed. Catch you later.

1:18.1

Hey, everyone, it's me Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullwark. I'm joined by Will Summer, author of the False Flag Newsletter Must Read. We are doing a Bullwark takes for you on Dan Bongino.

1:23.7

Sometimes we cover him on the newsletter. Not this time. We're going to cover him on video.

1:27.9

That's because we'll, we now have two articles, one in the New York Times and today, Wednesday, on MS now, saying that Dan Bonjino, deputy director of the FBI is going to resign sometime in the new year.

1:43.5

Now, the time's kind of caveat and said, well, he's unpredictable.

1:46.5

Who knows what he does?

1:48.1

But I think we can assume based on the reporters on these bylines that it's likely to happen.

1:53.5

And it brings to an end should it happen.

1:57.2

How would you describe his tenure?

1:59.7

It's bonjean over.

2:02.4

I would describe it.

2:04.1

Oh, God.

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