Nicole Silverio 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.

NBC News momentarily handed Elon Musk the presidency — albeit unintentionally — by claiming that he named Dan Bongino as the FBI’s Deputy Director.

In a memo on Sunday evening, the FBI Agents Association told its 14,000 members that new director Kash Patel had assured them that he would follow tradition and name a career special agent with operational expertise as his deputy director.

His podcast, The Dan Bongino Show, is the 56th most popular podcast on Spotify and has welcomed Trump as a repeat guest. He will join the newly-appointed bureau director Kash Patel, the latest in a series of loyalist picks that have attracted backlash.

President Trump named podcaster Dan Bongino as the new Deputy FBI Director. NBC News' Ken Dilanian has more details on the pick. Former Senior Executive in the FBI Counterterrorism Division Christopher O’Leary joins Chris Jansing to share his insight on the agency and why the pick is "problematic.

The No. 2 job at the F.B.I. will give the provocateur Dan Bongino access to sensitive intelligence, as well as speculation and false accusations that agents receive.

Dan Bongino, the conservative podcaster named deputy director of the FBI, has spent the past seven years publicly criticizing the agency he will now help run.

Ex-secret service agent and former NYPD officer Dan Bongino has been named Deputy Director of the FBI. Here's what to know.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Kash Patel had tapped Dan Bongino to be second-in-command at the FBI, after the Senate confirmed Patel as the bureau’s new director last week.

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Dan Bongino, a conservative talk show host, will be the next deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Dan Bongino, the former Secret Service agent turned Fox News host and conservative podcast personality, is set to be the next deputy director of the FBI.