Karoline Leavitt Takes Media To Task For Downplaying Dan Bongino’s Law Enforcement Experience

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt berated the media for downplaying FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s career in law enforcement during Tuesday’s press briefing.

The media has amped up Bongino’s role as a conservative podcaster after President Donald Trump tapped him to serve in his new role on Sunday night. During the briefing, Leavitt pointed to Bongino’s lengthy experience as a law enforcement officer and U.S. Secret Service agent, and labeled the media’s coverage of the new deputy director as “despicable.”

“I’m not sure if anybody in this room has listened to Mr. Bongino when he talks about the past corruption at the FBI, when he talks about his experience serving for the United States Secret Service,” Leavitt said. “This is a man who loves his country and who has honorably served our country in ways that many people have not. He understands the depth of the corruption at these institutions which the American people reelected Trump to shake up.”

“And I think it’s quite despicable to see many networks in this room who have had chyrons on their television screens labeling Mr. Bongino as a far-right podcaster,” the press secretary continued. “He is not. He is a former law enforcement agent, he is a former Secret Service agent who put his life on the line to protect this country and that is why the president of the United States has entrusted him for this important role.”

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Leavitt further noted that government bureaucrats are “nervous” because Bongino is an “outsider” of Washington, D.C., who will work with FBI director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi to “end the weaponization of government.”

Bongino served