Former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino sent shockwaves through conservative media last summer when he posted a message saying he had been “shocked down to my core” by what he learned inside the FBI. He said he would never be the same, that the Republic could not function this way, and that the truth was far worse than most Americans understood. At the time, he offered no details, and the media quickly moved on, hoping the moment would fade.
It did not.
This week, Bongino finally explained what triggered that post, and the answer should make every American furious. While calling into The Vince Show, hosted by Vince Coglianese, Bongino revealed that his reaction came after reviewing internal documents related to Operation Crossfire Hurricane. That is the now infamous FBI investigation that targeted President Trump’s 2016 campaign under the guise of Russian collusion.
According to Bongino, it was not just one document or one bad decision. It was the cumulative realization that institutional guardrails collapsed because people allowed them to collapse. As someone who served as a Secret Service agent, a police officer, and later inside the FBI, Bongino said he could not believe this happened in the United States. Sitting alone in his small Washington apartment, reading through Crossfire Hurricane material, he was stunned by how quickly common sense, ethics, and professional judgment evaporated.
Bongino explained that systems do not protect the Republic, people do. And in this case, too many people failed. He described incredibly poor decision-making being waved through, ignored, or rationalized away. The shock was not just about corruption at the top, but about how many individuals went along with it, either out of fear, ambition, or political bias. That is what rattled him the most.
Crossfire Hurricane was not a mistake. It was a weaponized abuse of power aimed squarely at President Trump and his supporters. It relied on bogus opposition research, rubber-stamped warrants, and a media ecosystem eager to play along. The deeper Americans look into it, the clearer it becomes that this was not about national security. It was about stopping an outsider president at all costs.
The legacy media still wants to pretend this is old news. Bongino’s account makes it clear it is not. The damage done to public trust in the FBI did not happen accidentally, and it has not been repaired.
Bongino says he plans to discuss even more of what he learned on his upcoming show. If what already shocked him to his core is only the beginning, Americans should brace themselves. The truth about Crossfire Hurricane is still coming out, and it is uglier than most people were ever told.
Leave a Comment