FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is considering resignation amid political fallout from this week’s Jeffrey Epstein file revelations.
“There’s been a lot of fighting between Attorney General Pam Bondi specifically and the leadership at the FBI about who’s to blame in this situation,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins said Friday.
According to the news network, following Maga’s outrage following this week’s DOJ and FBI announcement that there was no evidence of the longtime client list once held by the late American financier, child sex offender, and sex trafficker Epstein, Bongino was considering his exit over tensions with Bondi.
“Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning as deputy director of the FBI over the ongoing fallout since this memo was released,” Collins said. “Anger within the MAGA base has continued to grow, rather than go away, as some officials had hoped it would.”
She continued: “The context here is Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, they came from this MAGA world, where they themselves asked a lot of questions about the so-called client list that Epstein had beforehand. Now, the MAGA base is just not satisfied or pleased with what they said in this memo that came out.”
The FBI and Justice Department memo this week insists that the Trump-demanded investigation into Epstein’s criminal past “has uncovered no evidence that would predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.” This comes just months after Bondi told Fox News that she was in possession of such a list.
Watch the CNN report below:
“It’s sitting on my desk right now for review,” she said in February. “That’s been a directive from President Trump.”
The memo also arrived a month after Trump and Elon Musk’s online fallout after the Tesla CEO stepped down as Doge’s boss and came out in opposition to the president’s big, beautiful bill.
“Time to drop the really big bombshell: @RealDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk said at the time in a post since. “This is the real reason they haven’t been released.”
Watch CNN’s full segment on Bongino above.
