Dan Bongino Biography
Dan Bongino an American conservative commentator, radio show host, author, former congressional candidate, and former Secret Service, agent. He is also a member of the Republican Party who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in three respective years 2012, 2014, and 2016.
He is also known for his staunchly of pro-Donald Trump commentary and his criticism with Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Dan Bongino Age
Bongino was born on December 4, 1974, in Queens, New York, the United States of America.
Dan Bongino Education
Bongino attended New York City University where he graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Psychology, he also got his masters from the same University. He also joined Pennsylvania State University, where he earned his Master’s of Business Administration.
Ilhan Omar on Dan Bongino Show
Omar got backtracked her Politico comments after blasting President Obama for the “caging of kids” at the southern border and blaming his administration for the immigration crisis. She also said his message of “hope and change” was a “mirage.”
A Fox News reporter asked Omar, “Do you think that President Obama is the same as President Trump?” She responded, “Absolutely not. That is silly to even equate the two. One is human. The other is really not.”
Dan Bongino Salary
Bongino salary has not yet been revealed. However, the information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Dan Bongino Net Worth
Bongino has an estimated net worth of $ 8 million dollar.
Dan Bongino NYPD
Bongino worked with the New York City Police Department for four years, from 1995 to 1999.
Dan Bongino Secret Service and book release
Bongino joined the Secret Service in 1999 as a special agent, leaving the New York Field Office in 2002 to become an instructor at the Secret Service Training Academy in Beltsville, Maryland.
In 2006, Dan Bongino was assigned to the U.S. Presidential Protection Division during George W. Bush’s term. He then remained on his protective duty after Barack Obama became President, leaving in May 2011 to run for the U.S. Senate.
His book about his career as a Secret Service agent, a book known as Life Inside the Bubble, was released in 2013. The book discusses his experiences protecting presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama investigating federal crimes during his 2012 run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.
He was then criticized by his former colleagues at the Secret Service for using his Secret Service background as part of his run for political office and for his claim of having secret information based on conversations he overheard in the Obama White House.
The same former colleague criticized him for trying to use his proximity to President Obama in his political career: for trying to draw attention to himself and hijacking the Secret Service brand.
That’s all he’s got going for him.” Dan said he had access to “high-level discussions” in the White House. The Former colleagues continued saying he “tends to exaggerate his importance on the presidential detail and exaggerate his proximity” and that “We don’t sit in on meetings at the White House.
We don’t sit in on high-level meetings.” In response to the criticism from an anonymous former colleague, Bongino stated “There’s nothing confidential in the book” and “It’s not a tell-all. It’s my tale of the Secret Service.”
Bongino rejected false claims that Barack Obama was born outside the United States. He has published another book known as The Fight: A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine was published in January 2016.
Dan Bongino Media
Dan has been a radio host and commentator on both local and national radio programs. Bongino has been also a guest host for both Sean Hannity and Mark Levin radio shows and sometimes fills in on WMAL radio in Washington, DC and WBAL radio in Baltimore.
Dan was a paid contributor to NRATV, until December 2018. Bongino has frequently appeared on Fox News’ opinion programming and InfoWars. He guest-hosted Sean Hannity’s Fox News show in December 2018. He wrote about Spygate, a conspiracy theory pushed by Trump, in his book Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump.
Dan Bongino Political views
In 2018, Bongino said, “My entire life right now is about owning the libs. That’s it.” He is pro-Donald Trump. He downplayed the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections investigation, calling it a “total scam.” In May 2018, Bongino was quoted by President Donald Trump in one of his tweets, that he had attacked the former CIA Director John Brennan.
The same quote quoted Bongino saying Brennan disgraced the entire Intelligence Community. He is the man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American’s faith in the Intelligence Community in some people who are at the…top of the FBI.” Bongino was also quoted alleging that Brennan was “worried about staying out of jail.”
In May 2018 after the Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy and some conservative legal experts challenged Trump’s claims that the FBI had spied on his 2016 presidential campaign, and Bongino also claimed that Gowdy had been “fooled” by the Department of Justice.
In February 2019, he accused Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein of attempting a coup against President Trump. Bongino is a member of Groundswell, a coalition of conservative and libertarian activists fighting to advance conservative causes.
Dan Bongino Radio show
The Bongino show it podcasts the hottest political issues, debunking both liberal and Republican establishment rhetoric.
Dan Bongino on Politics
In 2018, he said “My entire life right now is about owning the libs. That’s it.” Bongino is known for his staunchly in the pro-Trump commentary. He has downplayed the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections investigation, calling it a “total scam.” In May 2018, He was quoted by President Donald Trump in one of his tweets, that he attacked former CIA Director John Brennan.
He was also quoted saying Brennan “has disgraced the entire Intelligence Community. He is the one man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American’s faith in the Intelligence Community and in some people at the. The top FBI.” was quoted as alleging that Brennan was “worried about staying out of jail.”
On May 2018 the Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy and some conservative legal experts challenged Trump’s claims that the FBI had spied on his 2016 presidential campaign, he claimed Gowdy had been “fooled” by the Department of Justice. He is a member of Groundswell, a coalition of conservative and libertarian activists fighting to advance conservative causes
Dan Bongino Elections
Dan Bongino decided to run for the seat of the U.S Senate to represent Mary Land in 2012. The Former gubernatorial candidate Brian Murphy was his campaign chairman. He then won the Republican primary on April 3, 2012, with 33.8 percent of the vote, defeating nine other candidates.
He ran for the seat against Senator Ben Cardin (55.3%) and Independent Rob Sobhani (16.4%) in the November 2012 general election, finishing a distant second with 26.6% of the vote.
Dan Bongino House of Representatives election
In 2012, Dan unsuccessfully lost the seat of the U.S. Senate in Maryland. The former gubernatorial candidate Brian Murphy was his campaign chairman. Dan Bongino successfully won the Republican primary seat on April 3, 2012, with 33.8 percent of the vote, defeating the other nine candidates.
He then lost to incumbent Democrat Ben Cardin (55.3%) with Independent Rob Sobhani by placing a third percentage of (16.4%) during the November 2012 general election, after finishing a distant second with 26.6% of the vote.
2014 House of Representatives election
Bongino ran for the U.S. House of Representatives seat from Maryland’s 6th Congressional District in the 2014 election against incumbent Democrat John Delaney. Bongino lost to Delaney by two percentage points.
2016 House of Representatives election
Dan Bongino moved to Florida in 2015, after he contemplated to run for the seat of United States Senate and Florida’s 18th congressional district in 2016. However, in June 2016, he declared that he would seek the Republican nomination for Florida’s 19th congressional district.
Bongino faced his opponent Chauncey Goss, a Sanibel City Councilman who sought the seat in 2012, and Francis Rooney, a businessman and former United States Ambassador to the Holy See, in the primary elections. During his interview in August 2016 with Politico reporter, he went on a profanity-laced rant against a reporter, who asked about the story of Naples Daily News that Bongino said was dishonest.
The phone call was recorded and published by Politico. He later explained that he was under stress due to his wife’s illness and said that the reporter had goaded him. Dan Bongino placed a third in the August 2016 primary, losing the nomination to Rooney.
Dan Bongino Books
- Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump 2018
- Protecting the President: An Inside Account of the Troubled Secret Service in an Era of Evolving Threats 2017
- The Fight: A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine 2016
- Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from It All 2013
Dan Bongino and Obama
Dan the Secret Service agent had once defended former President Barack Obama on his life, but now says “the fog of scandals in the Obama administration” is inside to look at the Obamacare debate which led him to turn his badge, on his former boss, and to run for Congress as a Republican.
Dan went behind the scenes for 12 years in the room during the most important conversations,” Bongino told ABCNews.com about the access that he had to high-level discussions inside the White House. Bongino’s former colleagues were unhappy with him after parlaying his proximity to the president into a political career.
The agents that Bongino worked with told the ABCNews.com that had a trial to draw attention to himself and for hijacking the Secret Service brand,”. “That’s all he’s got going for him.” Bongino, who protected presidents Obama and George W Bush, is running for the Republican nomination in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, a seat occupied by Democrat John Delaney.
The election will be held next year. Bongino was careful not to say too much about what he exactly saw and what he heard while protecting the president, hints that “It’s worse than people know. They’d be shocked, scared if they knew everything.”
“Being a Secret Service agent, have been an obligation not to disclose personal conversations and security details,” he told ABCNews.com. “But that doesn’t prevent me from speaking generally about foundational principles and the system of patronage and punishment I saw in the Obama administration.”
The defining moment, he says, when he decided to leave the service and enter politics, came after overhearing a series of secret negotiations inside the White House in President Obama’s first term. “If there was one event that helped make up my mind, the most visceral was the Obamacare debate. The public doesn’t have any idea how many deals were cut on that.
The Republican Party has a reputation for being the party of big business, but you wouldn’t think that if you saw the Obamacare debate. So many people were sold out, and so many sold out, it’s disgusting,” he said. Bongino was Maryland’s Republican candidate for Senate in 2012 but lost handily to incumbent Sen. Ben Cardin.
He’s planning released a memoir about his time in the service in that month. Bongino said he was “very complimentary about the president and his family,” but the Obama administration had become enmeshed in many scandals. The Secret Service agents served with Bongino but they asked for anonymity that confirmed his resume, but he said that the candidate “tends to exaggerate his importance on the presidential detail and exaggerate his proximity.”
The agents said “We don’t sit in meetings at the White House. We don’t sit on high-level meetings,”. The agents said again that Bongino’s assignments were “typical” of agents in the president’s detail and that he was not the supervisor. Since Bongino’s resignation agents were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Then the Secret Service agents received a secret clearance, but unlike agents in the intelligence agencies, they were not legally bound to disclose what they saw and what they heard while at work. “Congressman Delaney is focused on serving his constituents and he is not paying his attention to the Republican primary,” a spokesman for the Democrat incumbent said in a statement.
Dan Bongino Height and Weight
Bongino stands tallat a height of 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 210 lbs.
Dan Bongino Nationality
Dan said he is not black, but he is an Italian. Seriously, can you get any dumber? he says. Dan Bongino has not disclosed the information about his parents, but he supports himself from the white ethnicity. Dan Bongino described his ethnic background as an American.
Dan Bongino Family, Parents and Siblings
Dan’s iInformation about his parents, what they do for a living, or who his siblings are. Nevertheless, this section will be updated as soon as it is available.
Dan Bongino Wife
Bongino is married to Paula Andrea Bongino, the couple is blessed with two daughters, Isabel (born 2004) and Amelia (born 2012). In 2012 Bongino and his wife Paula Andrea operated three businesses from their home, selling martial arts apparel, designing websites, and consulting on security and risk management.
The duo firdt met wife on a blind date at Sullivan’s – a New York City restaurant.