Dan Bongino may be leaving FBI
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The clash between the deputy FBI director and the attorney general has exposed tensions in Trump’s inner sanctum.
Multiple sources said the former Fox News figure did not come to work Friday, fueling speculation he had quit over the issue. One of those sources said that as of Friday afternoon he had not left
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has emerged as the 'fall guy' in the Epstein case as he was the one who okayed the release of the surveillance footage from outside Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell. But the footage had a 'missing minute' which has become the albatross around the neck of the administration,
An irate attorney general is said to have confronted the deputy director of the F.B.I. at a tense White House meeting earlier in the week.
Sources told ABC News that Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino's future is uncertain after a confrontation with AG Pam Bondi over the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.