‘Despicable!’ Karoline Leavitt Slams Media Over Attacks on FBI Appointee Dan Bongino

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt expressed her outrage over the media’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s nomination of right-wing commentator Dan Bongino to serve as deputy director of the FBI at a briefing on Tuesday, characterizing the attacks on Bongino as “despicable.”

Leavitt’s comments came after Gray Television’s Jon Decker made notes of press reports about FBI Director Kash Patel telling Republican senators that a current special agent at the bureau would get the post that Bongino has been nominated to and asked her what the “reason” for naming Bongino to this position” is.

“I’m not sure if anybody in this room has listened to Mr. Bongino when he talks about the past corruption at the FBI, when he talks about his experience serving for the United States Secret Service. This is a man who loves his country, and who has honorably served our country in ways that many people have not,” answered Leavitt. “He understands the depth of the corruption at these institutions, which the American people reelected President Trump to shake up. And I think it’s quite despicable to see many networks in this room who have had chyrons on their television screens labeling Mr. Bongino as a far-right podcaster. He is not. He is a former law enforcement agent. He is a former Secret Service agent who put his life on the line to protect this country. And that is why the president of the United States has entrusted him for this important role. He’s also an outsider to this Washington swamp, and we often see that when outsiders are appointed to such coveted positions, a lot of people in this city get very, very nervous. And they should be, because Dan Bongino, and Kash Patel, and Attorney General Bondi are focused on rooting out the corruption at these agencies and ending the weaponization of government once and for all.”

A firebrand, Bongino previously worked at Fox News and currently hosts a show on Rumble.

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