'I can't recover like I used to': Trump FBI appointee tries to get ahead of NYT 'expose'
Source: Raw Story
April 19, 2025 10:01PM ET
A Donald Trump FBI appointee is trying to get out in front of a New York Times "expose" about him. Dan Bongino, who walked away from his lucrative job as a far-right podcaster and apologist for the president to accept the job of deputy FBI director, has recently come under fire from MAGA and has been forced to defend himself from his own allies.
On Saturday, however, Bongino turned his attention toward the media. Taking to social media, Bongino wrote, "FYI, Adam Goldman of the NY Times is getting ready to run another one of their 'journalism' expose pieces about me spending time in our FBI training facility ground fighting with our dedicated and skilled defensive tactics instructors."
"Their big news 'hook' is that after a solid few rounds of grappling, I injured my shoulder," he then added. "Because it's Adam Goldman, you can generally assume he's wrong, and he is, again. The instructor I was grappling with got the best of me, because he's incredibly talented. That's why he's there. And it was my not an 'injury' but a bit of swelling in my right elbow, not shoulder, because I'm 50 years old and I can't recover like I used to."
Bongino then concluded, "But I felt it was important to get on the mats any way, because that's what men do. But Adam doesn't know much about that. And he never will. Because he's Adam, from the NY Times. Thanks, Dan."
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According to Sommer, Bongino –– as well as Patel –- is taking heat from the MAGA faithful for being all talk and no action. "Since being sworn in, he has spent a remarkable amount of time in the public conversation, trying to calm his social media skeptics. His pleas for patience come amid growing frustration among the MAGA grassroots over the job he and FBI Director Kash Patel are doing," he wrote before adding, "The problem with being a major law enforcement official is that people may expect you to, ya know, solve crimes, like the string of swattings in March targeting right-wing influencers."
Case in point, Sommer reported, was rightwing victims of swatting feeling the FBI is dragging its feet when it comes to investigations with one victim, influencer Larry Taunton, joined by another victim, Infowars personality Owen Shroyer, complaining, "I keep seeing a lot of tough-talking tweets. In the amount of time it takes to prepare a tweet, one could pick up the phone and give people like me or Owen [Shroyer] a phone call.”
The report adds, "In Bongino’s case, his audience has been told for years that prominent liberals and deep-state operatives have committed blatant crimes against the Trump family that should be easy to prosecute. Yet no top Democrats have been indicted, leading Trump fans to believe Bongino is falling down on the job."
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It seems to be similar to our frustration with "strongly worded letters" but no "frog marching" (yet).
and now he's been "outed" by the recipients of his pile of hockey pucks .
(this is why in the past, NONE of them opted to actually work for the government because these gasbags knew what they were spouting was nothing but "lies for listeners" ).
Being used as a target. 
its gives me a lot of confidence to know our best and brightest are running the government
Because "that's what men do". 
how he supposedly knows what's going to be published in the future? 
Poor itty bitty baby. 