Dan Bongino Reportedly Forcing Trump to Pick Between Him and Pam Bondi

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins confirmed that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is considering stepping down amid fallout over the handling of the so-called “Jeffrey Epstein Files.”

Approximately 90 minutes after Collins’ report, Mary Margaret Olohan of The Daily Wire reported that Bongino had given the Trump administration an ultimatum: either he goes or Bondi goes.

“Source close to Dan Bongino tells me it’s either him or Pam Bondi,” Olohan reported, “and that he won’t stay at FBI if she stays at DOJ.”

Hours earlier, Axios reported Friday that Bongino clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Epstein case on Wednesday. The Justice Department recently concluded that Epstein — a convicted child sex trafficker — did not have a rumored “list” of associates. Additionally, the department confirmed that Epstein’s widely-discussed death in prison was indeed a suicide.

Following Wednesday’s altercation, Bongino took the day off from work on Friday.

Collins first took to social media to confirm that Bongino’s considering resigning, adding that the “infighting” happening within the MAGA base over the Epstein case “has not let up.”

Minutes later, she joined CNN to discuss the report in greater detail:

It remains to be seen if he actually follows through with what he has told colleagues; but what we do know is that Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning as the deputy director of the FBI over the fallout that has continued ever since this memo was released last Sunday.

The anger inside the MAGA base has only continued to grow instead of going away — as some officials inside hoped it would — and now our colleagues, along with Kristen Holmes, Hannah Rabinowitz, and Evan Perez, we’re hearing that he’s considering resigning after they had this heated confrontation with the Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of this earlier this week.

Collins also said that Bongino’s Friday absence was “out of protest.”

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