Bongino served full-time within the NYPD from 1997 to 1999 earlier than becoming a member of the Secret Service.
He left in 2011 to pursue a political profession, working for Senate as a Republican in Maryland in 2012. On the time, his opinion of his former employer was nonetheless very optimistic.
“The president was a beautiful man,” Bongino mentioned of Obama in 2011. “From what I noticed he was a beautiful father and a beautiful man and he was very, very good and really variety to me.” In a memoir revealed in 2013, Bongino added that Obama was “considered one of a gaggle of males I’d have gladly sacrificed my life for.”
Across the identical time, although, Bongino started to take his first steps on a path that will finally lead him to changing into one of many greatest podcasters within the US.
In 2013 he appeared on Infowars, the place he spoke to Alex Jones in regards to the then-recent taking pictures at Sandy Hook Elementary College. After Jones mentioned that it’s “so excessive how authoritarian the Democrats have change into,” in relation to the response faculty shootings, Bongino replied that Democrats aren’t disaster managers however are as a substitute “disaster leveraging [and] utilizing a nationwide emotional disaster to get you to imagine issues that merely aren’t true.”
A decade later Jones could be ordered by a court docket to liquidate his belongings to pay the households of the victims of the taking pictures $1.5 billion.
Bongino made a number of appearances on Jones present within the run as much as his second failed congressional tilt in 2014, this time shedding to incumbent Democratic Rep. John Delaney in Maryland’s sixth Congressional district.
Throughout considered one of his Infowars appearances, Bongino boosted the conspiracy concept that CIA brokers have been advised to face down through the terrorist assaults on the US Particular Mission and Annex in Benghazi, Libya.
Bongino started his personal podcast, The Dan Bongino Present, in 2015, and a yr later made his third try at profitable a seat in Congress, this time in Florida’s nineteenth Congressional District. Only a week earlier than the vote, Bongino was recorded having a full on meltdown whereas talking to a reporter from Politico, whom he referred to as “an actual disgusting piece of shit.”
In 2018 Bongino was handed his personal 30-minute present on the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation’s station, NRATV. Bongino used his present to constantly hammer the work being carried out by particular counsel—and former FBI director—Robert Mueller, who was on the time investigating Trump and allegations that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
Bongino pushed the conspiracy concept that the Trump marketing campaign was being spied on, a state of affairs he dubbed “spygate” and referred to as “the most important scandal in American historical past.”
Throughout one present, discussing the pushback in opposition to the nomination of Supreme Courtroom Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Bongino mentioned, “My whole life proper now’s about proudly owning the libs. That’s it. The libs…have proven themselves by this Kavanaugh abomination of a course of to be … pure unadulterated evil.”
His sturdy protection of Trump caught the eye of producers at Fox, who booked him a whole bunch of occasions throughout this era, and it seems to be at this level that Trump first took discover of Bongino.