BREAKING: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino quietly cleans out his desk as Epstein files release deadline arrives.

BREAKING: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino quietly cleans out his desk as Epstein files release deadline arrives.

Another Trump experiment is quietly heading for the exits — and this one is packing up without a press conference.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, the conservative podcaster-turned–law-enforcement-boss who never worked a day as an FBI agent, has reportedly told colleagues he’s done. According to multiple sources, Bongino has cleared out his office, stopped coming into headquarters, and is preparing to formally announce his departure early next year.

So ends one of the strangest appointments in FBI history.

Installed by President Donald Trump despite zero FBI experience, Bongino was handed the keys to the bureau’s day-to-day operations — a role typically reserved for seasoned agents who understand, well, the job. Instead, Trump picked a MAGA media star whose résumé was built on conspiracy theories, not investigations.

Almost immediately, things went sideways.

Bongino clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi, prompting Trump to take the unprecedented step of naming a co–deputy director to help cover Bongino’s workload — a bureaucratic vote of no confidence if there ever was one. Behind the scenes, agents reportedly viewed Bongino as wildly out of his depth, with one source bluntly saying they’re “counting down the days” until he’s gone.

Then came the reckoning.

As deputy director, Bongino suddenly had to deal with facts — a sharp departure from his podcast days, where he built a massive following (and a reported $160 million fortune) promoting MAGA-friendly conspiracy theories. When arrests in the January 6 pipe bomb case and internal reviews of the Epstein files contradicted claims he had long amplified, Bongino was forced to publicly reverse himself.

Turns out, shouting theories into a microphone is easier than running a federal law enforcement agency.

The backlash from Trump’s own base was swift and vicious. MAGA supporters, furious that Bongino no longer backed their Epstein fantasies, turned on him — a familiar fate for anyone who dares replace outrage with evidence.

By his own admission, Bongino discovered that being paid to offer opinions is very different from being paid to uphold reality. And reality, it seems, won.

Now, as the Justice Department approaches a court-mandated deadline to release Epstein-related materials, Bongino is reportedly slipping out the side door — refusing to confirm anything, dismissing reporters, and leaving the FBI to clean up the mess.

Trump promised to “fix” federal law enforcement. Instead, he turned it into a podcast audition. And once again, the adults were left counting the days until the noise finally stopped.

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