{"id":37747,"date":"2025-12-17T23:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trump-appears-to-confirm-dan-bongino-will-step-down-from-fbi-role\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:34:29","slug":"trump-appears-to-confirm-dan-bongino-will-step-down-from-fbi-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trump-appears-to-confirm-dan-bongino-will-step-down-from-fbi-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appears to confirm Dan Bongino will step down from FBI role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President told reporters that deputy director \u2018did a great job\u2019 and \u2018wants to go back to his show\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump appears to have confirmed reports that the FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, is planning to step down, telling reporters on Wednesday that \u201cDan did a great job\u201d and that he thinks Bongino \u201cwants to go back to his show\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/2001397537161265408\" rel=\"nofollow\">made the remarks<\/a> while answering questions from various reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/17\/trump-fbi-deputy-director-dan-bongino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President told reporters that deputy director \u2018did a great job\u2019 and \u2018wants to go back to his show\u2019 Donald Trump appears to have confirmed reports that the FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, is planning to step down, telling reporters on Wednesday that \u201cDan did a great job\u201d and that he thinks Bongino \u201cwants to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:53:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}