Dan Bongino Slams Adam Schiff, Signals Bigger Moves Ahead Amid FBI Appointment
Just days before being tapped by former President Donald Trump to serve as deputy director of the FBI, conservative commentator Dan Bongino lit into Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on his widely followed podcast—hinting at unfinished business and possibly foreshadowing his new role.
“Why is Adam Schiff so nervous?” Bongino asked, kicking off a fiery segment. “Go back and take a hard look—again—at the Russia collusion hoax. You’ll see why.”
Although the scandal is now several years behind us, Bongino made it clear he’s not letting it go. “I’ll be straight with you—I don’t want to move on,” he declared. “We’re talking about a story manufactured by powerful players: the FBI, the DOJ, members of Congress, foreign governments, and intelligence operatives. They conspired to fabricate a lie that risked harming our diplomatic ties with a nuclear adversary. That’s no small deal—that’s a massive breach of public trust.”
Bongino then dropped what many took as a cryptic clue about his pending FBI appointment. “Mark my words—this is going to matter in the days ahead,” he said.
Refusing to mince words, Bongino added: “This cannot be allowed to happen again. Not to a Democrat, not to a Republican, not to a Libertarian—not to any American citizen. You don’t get to hijack the justice system to lend credibility to a politically convenient lie. Not in this country.”
He made it clear who he believes orchestrated the deception. “Why bring it up now? Because the ringleader of that circus was Adam Schiff. And no—I’m not letting it go.”
Meanwhile, Schiff has remained defiant despite being granted a controversial preemptive pardon by former President Joe Biden for his role in the Democrat-led January 6 Committee. Although Schiff called the pardon “unnecessary” and “unwise,” he notably did not decline it.
“I still believe the committee acted within the law,” Schiff said in a statement, “and I understand why President Biden felt compelled to offer pardons in the face of relentless and baseless threats from Donald Trump and his appointees.”
The pardons—described by The Hill as “full and unconditional”—shield committee members from legal jeopardy related to the work they conducted, though it remains unclear whether the protections extend to Schiff’s controversial public assertions that Trump was compromised by Russia.
Former Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) chaired the committee, with ex-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) serving as vice chair. Other members included Republicans Adam Kinzinger and Democrats Zoe Lofgren, Pete Aguilar, Jamie Raskin, Elaine Luria, and Stephanie Murphy.
In a joint statement, Thompson and Cheney defended the pardons. “We weren’t pardoned for violating the law—we were pardoned for upholding it,” they wrote. “These are extraordinary times when elected officials must be shielded from political retaliation simply for exposing the truth about an attempt to overturn a lawful election and block the peaceful transfer of power.”
