Bongino Open to Serving as FBI Director If Trump Wins and Asks Him

MILWAUKEE—Radio talk-show host and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino isn’t keen to head back into federal government service, but if former President Donald Trump were to win a second term and asked him to, he said he would consider it.

Bongino sat down with The Daily Signal on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where he addressed some speculation about whether he would serve as director of the FBI in a Republican administration.

Bongino laughed at the idea, but expressed himself honored and flattered by it.

“Only if President Trump personally wanted it,” he said. “Him. If he wanted it. I’ve never envisioned myself going back in government again, ever, ever, ever. I can’t say that enough.”

“But I wouldn’t even take a salary for this stuff,” he continued. “There comes a time where your country matters more. I never got into this stuff for the money, or the glory, or any crap like that. It just happened … if he called I’d have to consider anything.”

Bongino described the security breach at Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign rally as a “catastrophic failure” of the Secret Service. Countersnipers fatally shot the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, after one of his shots grazed the former president’s right ear, bloodying him.

Trump announced Monday that Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, was his vice presidential running mate. The former president made an appearance on Monday evening at the Republican National Convention, where he appeared serious and emotional as he greeted his sons as well as Tucker Carlson, Vance, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.