{"id":4084,"date":"2025-12-18T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/dan-bongino-to-resign-from-fbi-deputy-director-role-in-january\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:28:14","slug":"dan-bongino-to-resign-from-fbi-deputy-director-role-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/dan-bongino-to-resign-from-fbi-deputy-director-role-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Bongino to resign from FBI deputy director role in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is leaving the bureau in January after speculation rose this week concerning his departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8216;I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January,&#8217; Bongino wrote in an X post Wednesday. &#8216;I want to thank President [Donald] Trump, AG [Pam] Bondi, and Director [Kash] Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose. Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. God bless America, and all those who defend Her.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump hinted at the news on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews earlier in the afternoon, saying, &#8216;Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, had no FBI experience before Trump tapped him to serve in the No. 2 position there. Prior to Bongino, the role had for more than a century been filled by someone who worked at the bureau, according to the FBI Agents Association. The position does not require Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News confirmed Andrew Bailey, co-deputy director, has been on the job since September and will stay on for now in the deputy role reporting to Patel.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and the FBI did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital&#8217;s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking story. Check back later for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is leaving the bureau in January after speculation rose this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefortunefavor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}