Dan Bongino
American political commentator
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| March 17 2025 | Assumed office as the 20th deputy director of the FBI. |
| March 17 2025 | Assumes office as the 20th deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). |
| March 17 2025 | Expected to assume office as the 20th deputy director of the FBI. |
| March 14 2025 | Concluded his commentating roles. |
| 2025 | While working as a radio host, Bongino encouraged the idea that President Trump could ignore court orders and make judicial decisions, suggesting the executive could act like a judge. |
| March 14 2025 | Expected to conclude his current commentating roles. |
| February 23 2025 | President Donald Trump announces Bongino as the next deputy director of the FBI. |
| December 2023 | Secures a multi-year contract extension with Westwood One after previously announcing plans to end his Cumulus radio show. |
| June 2023 | Cumulus began phasing his show out of its stations' lineups. |
| April 2023 | Concludes his role as host of Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on Fox News. |
| April 20 2023 | Announces parting ways with Fox News due to failed contract negotiations. |
| December 11 2022 | Announces plans to end his Cumulus radio show at the end of his contract, though he later secures a multi-year contract extension in December 2023. |
| January 2022 | Permanently banned from YouTube for attempting to circumvent a temporary suspension related to a COVID-19 mask efficacy video. |
| October 19 2021 | Publicly challenges Cumulus Media's vaccine mandate, stating 'You can have me or the mandate. But you can't have both of us.' |
| July 2021 | Hosts 'Canceled in the USA', a five-part Fox Nation series on cancel culture between July and August. |
| July 2021 | In an interview, Bongino announced he had 'beaten' cancer. |
| May 2021 | Fox News announces Bongino will host a new weekend program, Unfiltered With Dan Bongino, starting June 5. |
| March 2021 | Cumulus Media signs Bongino to replace The Rush Limbaugh Show on its talk radio stations. |
| January 7 2021 | Twitter temporarily suspends Bongino's account for violating the Civic Integrity policy in the wake of the Capitol riots. |
| 2020 | Backed Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud following Joe Biden's election victory, asserting that Democrats had rigged the election. |
| November 2020 | Listed by The New York Times as one of the top five election 'misinformation superspreaders'. |
| October 2020 | Identified by Politico as having routinely among the most shared posts on Facebook. |
| October 16 2020 | Bongino confirmed an official diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma and announced he would continue treatment. |
| October 7 2020 | Bongino underwent surgery to remove the entire tumor from his neck, with suspicions of lymphoma. |
| October 2 2020 | Bongino received a 'bad phone call' from doctors and announced he would undergo surgery on October 7. |
| September 23 2020 | Bongino announced the discovery of a seven-centimeter tumor in his throat and planned further medical screening. |
| June 2020 | Bongino announced he purchased an ownership stake in Parler, an alternative social media platform. |
| 2019 | Published 'Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp', which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. |
| December 2019 | Launches the Bongino Report website as an alternative to the Drudge Report, criticizing Matt Drudge for 'abandoning' Trump supporters. |
| February 2019 | Accused Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein of attempting a coup against President Trump. |
| 2018 | Publicly stated that his 'entire life right now is about owning the libs', expressing strong partisan political stance. |
| 2018 | Publicly declared that his 'entire life right now is about owning the libs', expressing a strong partisan political stance in support of Donald Trump. |
| December 2018 | Bongino ends his role as a paid contributor to NRATV and guest hosts Sean Hannity's Fox News show. |
| May 2018 | Challenged Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy's stance on FBI investigation, claiming Gowdy had been 'fooled' by the Department of Justice regarding claims of FBI spying on Trump's 2016 campaign. |
| May 2018 | Criticized former CIA Director John Brennan, alleging he 'disgraced the entire Intelligence Community' and was 'worried about staying out of jail'. His comments were subsequently quoted by President Trump in a tweet. |
| August 2016 | During an interview with a Politico reporter, Bongino went on a profanity-laced rant about a Naples Daily News story he considered dishonest, which was later published by Politico. |
| August 2016 | Bongino placed third in the Republican primary for Florida's 19th congressional district, losing the nomination to Francis Rooney. |
| June 2016 | Bongino declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Florida's 19th congressional district, competing against Chauncey Goss and Francis Rooney in the primary. |
| January 2016 | Published his second book, 'The Fight: A Secret Service Agent's Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine'. |
| 2015 | Dan Bongino moved to Florida and began considering running for the United States Senate or Florida's 18th congressional district in 2016. |
| 2014 | Dan Bongino ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in Maryland's 6th Congressional District, challenging incumbent Democrat John Delaney. He narrowly lost the election by 1.5 percentage points, winning four out of five counties in the district but suffering a significant vote deficit in Montgomery County. |
| 2013 | Published his memoir 'Life Inside the Bubble', detailing his experiences as a Secret Service agent and political candidate. |
| 2012 | Dan Bongino and his wife operated three home-based businesses, including selling martial arts apparel, designing websites, and consulting on security and risk management. |
| 2012 | Bongino ran in the general election for U.S. Senate in Maryland, ultimately losing to incumbent Democrat Ben Cardin, receiving 26.6% of the vote in a three-way race. |
| April 3 2012 | Dan Bongino won the Maryland Republican primary for U.S. Senate, securing 33.8% of the vote and defeating nine other candidates. |
| 2011 | Served as lead investigator in a car rental fraud scheme that resulted in two federal wire fraud indictments. |
| 2011 | Ends his career as a US Secret Service agent. |
| May 2011 | Left the Secret Service to run for the U.S. Senate. |
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