FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has threatened to resign from his position if Attorney General Pam Bondi remains at her post, The Daily Wire reports.

“Source close to Dan Bongino tells me it’s either him or Pam Bondi, and that he won’t stay at FBI if she stays at DOJ,” Mary Margaret Olohan, White House correspondent for The Daily Wire, wrote on X.

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Bongino is reportedly furious with Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which has led many to believe he could walk away from the job that he took in February. The source close to Bongino said that he’s effectively issued an ultimatum, saying he won’t work alongside Bondi.

Bongino left a lucrative career in broadcasting to take the job in the Trump administration. He was not present at the FBI on Friday, after a reported spat with the attorney general earlier this week over the Epstein situation.

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The rift between Bongino and Bondi intensified on Wednesday, days after the Department of Justice announced there was no evidence to prove that child rapist Jeffrey Epstein had a client list, had blackmailed powerful people, or had been murdered. Bondi had promised to reveal major details in the case five months ago, when there were no massive revelations to bring forward.

The deputy FBI director, who raised questions about Epstein’s death before he was in the Trump administration, said in May that his review of the file and hours of video recording from Epstein’s jail proved that the child abuser committed suicide. FBI Director Kash Patel also said that the evidence the bureau has reviewed shows that Epstein was not murdered.

It remains unclear if Bongino will resign from his post.

According to Axios, Bongino “took a day off from work” following the reported rift with Bondi.

One source told Axios, “He ain’t coming back.”

“Source tells me Dan Bongino is taking the day off today from his job as Deputy Director of the FBI, and there’s now speculation on whether or not he will return to his job at the @FBI over his disgust with Blondi’s lack of transparency and handling of the Epstein files,” investigative journalist Laura Loomer said Friday.

Fox News reports that FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi “have every intention to stay and continue to serve.”

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More from the New York Post:

The heated exchange prompted Bongino to take a personal day Friday and he is considering resigning after fewer than four months in his job, a source familiar with the matter told The Post, adding that Bongino’s relationship with Bondi no longer appears salvageable.

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“I don’t think Dan comes back if Pam stays,” this person said, even though both parties had publicly stated an internal review of the Epstein file yielded no smoking-gun information about his death, high-powered associates or sickening crimes.

Matters came to a head after the Department of Justice concluded a probe into the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10, 2019, weeks after being charged with sex trafficking dozens of girls — some as young as 14 years old.

That investigation included a pile of documents that Bondi told Fox News in February were on her desk at the Justice Department “to be reviewed,” appearing to confirm those papers included the perv’s infamous “client list.”

“In February, I did an interview on Fox, and it’s been getting a lot of attention because I said — I was asked a question about the client list, and my response was, ‘it’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed,’ meaning the [Epstein] file along with the JFK and MLK files as well,” Bondi said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

 

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