Grifty Grifters Who Grift
He's back to easy street.
Fresh off of finding out that having a real job is actual work, Dan Bongino is back to being a grifty cable news type:
Here’s the full quote from the Tweet:
@dbongino says details he uncovered at the FBI of the Russia collusion hoax are shocking, warning the abuse of power against President Trump shows a total systematic breakdown: “I was reading through some stuff that you could only read in the office, and it basically involved the collusion hoax, Crossfire Hurricane as it went by, and the various other spinoffs. And when you read it from the inside, when you see the details of what these absolute animals did to President Trump—I mean, I’m not shocked often, Sean—just reading through it and seeing it in detail for the first time, all put together. You can’t run a republic like this. You can’t—you absolutely cannot. It’s just stunning how all these guardrails broke down at the exact same time. It’s frightening how nobody thought to speak up and say, ‘Hey man, not only is this wrong, this is demonic—this is evil stuff.’”
All I want to know is if that is true, then where are the investigations? The arrests? The indictments? The convictions?
Sadly, I know where Bongino’s ethics are, as well as what level of gullibility Hannity’s viewers have to possess to believe any of this.
It is amazing, even if not surprising, that he has so quickly returned to form.
A reminder of what he said before he quit his gig as Deputy Director of the FBI.
“I was paid in the past for my opinions,” Bongino said in a Fox News interview. “One day I will be back in that space but that’s not what I’m paid for now. I’m paid to be your deputy director and we base investigations on facts.”
Back to being paid and not longer feeling bound by facts!
That would be my question as well: Why didn’t you take any action, Dan?
@CSK:
Maybe some lowly aid far more experienced and qualified to do his job than he is, made him understand in court you can’t present fabrications as probative evidence.
Let’s be clear. The problem is Fox and Hannity, not Bongino. There is a near endless supply of grifters out there in Trumpland. Fox is singular in their destructive platforming of these shameless tools.
@Scott F.: I disagree. I basic terms, the problem is Fox and Hannity, and Bongino.
Beyond that, Bongino is, at least at the moment, worse because he was just in the government and actually does know better.
But to be clear: Fox and Hannity are majors problems.
@Steven L. Taylor:
Fair enough. I get that Bongino just leaving office provides a uniquely powerful set-up to the grift. “He was just there witnessing the deep state first hand, so he must know the truth” will sell bigly to the gullible. It’s just that Bongino is the flavor-of-the-month liar today, while Fox and Hannity are highly profiting liars forever.
@Scott F.: Sure, Fox is worse by orders of magnitude.
But Bongino is so consciously lying that is really registers with me.
And keep in mind, he had a popular podcast and may have already started it back up. He has his own audience who will now take his bullshit even more seriously because he was just in the administration.
So this guy was deputy director for almost a year, for an agency he openly criticized, and did exactly jack shit and we are supposed to believe his no evidence rants. There was nothing, never was, and likely when he saw the Epstein files decided, “I better get back to the grift and get out of here in case this gets out, plus I didn’t think I would actually have to work” What a hack.
The interminable whining about an election nine years ago that Trump won is astonishing. It’s a sophisticated evolution of Orwell’s ‘Two-Minute Hate’ in 1984.