Daniel John Bongino was born on December 4,1974 and is an American conservative political commentator, radio show host, and author.
37 Facts About Dan Bongino
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Dan Bongino served as a New York City Police Department officer from 1995 to 1999 and as a Secret Service agent from 1999 to 2011.
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Dan Bongino was born and raised in Queens, New York City.
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Dan Bongino attended Queens College in the city, where he earned both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in psychology, and Pennsylvania State University, where he earned a Master of Business Administration.
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Dan Bongino worked for the New York City Police Department from 1995 to 1999.
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Dan Bongino joined the United States Secret Service in 1999 as a special agent, leaving the New York Field Office in 2002 to become an instructor at the Secret Service Training Academy in Beltsville, Maryland.
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Dan Bongino remained on protective duty after Barack Obama became president, leaving in May 2011 to run for the US Senate.
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Dan Bongino was criticized by former colleagues at the Secret Service for using his Secret Service background as part of his run for political office and for his claim of having secret information based on conversations he overheard in the Obama White House.
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Dan Bongino has been a radio host and commentator on local and national radio programs.
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Dan Bongino has been a guest host for both the Sean Hannity and Mark Levin radio shows and sometimes fills in on WMAL-FM talk radio in Washington, DC and WBAL in Baltimore.
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Dan Bongino was a paid contributor to NRATV until December 2018.
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Dan Bongino has frequently appeared on Fox News' opinion programming and on the conspiracy theory website InfoWars.
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Dan Bongino guest hosted Hannity's Fox News show in December 2018.
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In December 2019, Dan Bongino launched the website Dan Bongino Report as an alternative to the conservative Drudge Report website.
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In March 2021, Cumulus Media signed Dan Bongino to replace The Rush Limbaugh Show on its talk radio stations.
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Between July and August 2021, Dan Bongino hosted Canceled in the USA, a five-part series on cancel culture for Fox Nation, featuring interviews with people who have been "canceled" due to their opinions or beliefs.
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In January 2022, Dan Bongino was permanently banned from YouTube for using his main account in an attempt to circumvent a temporary suspension imposed on his secondary account after he had posted a video questioning the efficacy of masks against COVID-19.
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On December 11,2022, Dan Bongino announced plans to end his Cumulus radio show at the end of his contract 18 months in the future.
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On October 19,2021, Dan Bongino declared himself against corporate vaccine mandates, even though he was vaccinated.
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Brian Rosenwald, a talk radio historian, believed Dan Bongino's request was never much of an ultimatum, seeing little reason for Cumulus or its host to sever ties.
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Dan Bongino publicly announced in June 2020 that he had purchased an "ownership stake" of unspecified value in Parler, an alternative social media platform popular among Trump supporters, conservatives, and the far-right.
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Dan Bongino has called the investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion a "total scam", and is a proponent of the Spygate conspiracy theory.
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Dan Bongino is the one man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American's faith in the Intelligence Community and in some people at the top of the FBI.
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In May 2018, after Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy and some conservative legal experts challenged Trump's claims that the FBI had spied on his 2016 presidential campaign, Dan Bongino claimed Gowdy had been "fooled" by the Department of Justice.
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In 2019, Dan Bongino published Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp.
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Dan Bongino reportedly told the House Judiciary Committee during hearings on police brutality that efforts to reduce the funding of police departments were an "abomination" that should be dropped "before someone gets hurt".
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Dan Bongino has been a strong critic of face mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, falsely claiming that face masks are "largely ineffective", and deriding them as "face diapers" on occasion.
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Dan Bongino ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate in Maryland in 2012.
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Dan Bongino won the Republican primary on April 3,2012, with 33.8 percent of the vote, defeating nine other candidates.
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Dan Bongino ran for the US House of Representatives seat from Maryland's 6th Congressional District in the 2014 election against incumbent Democrat John Delaney.
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Dan Bongino carried four of the district's five counties, but had a 20,500-vote deficit in the district's share of Montgomery County in the outer suburbs of Washington.
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However, in June 2016, Dan Bongino declared that he would seek the Republican nomination for Florida's 19th congressional district.
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Dan Bongino faced Chauncey Goss, a Sanibel City Councilman who sought the seat in 2012, and Francis Rooney, a businessman and former United States Ambassador to the Holy See, in the primary.
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Dan Bongino placed third in the August 2016 primary, losing the nomination to Rooney.
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Dan Bongino is married to Paula Andrea, nee Martinez, who was born in Colombia.
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On September 23,2020, Dan Bongino announced that a seven-centimeter tumor had been found in his throat.
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Dan Bongino said he would receive treatment in the future.