On Sunday, 23 February 2025, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he has chosen political commentator Dan Bongino, a former New York Police Department officer and U.S. Secret Service special agent, to serve as deputy director of the FBI.
Bongino's opinions on polygraphy may thus be a factor in FBI polygraph policy going forward. Regrettably, Bongino seems to be a believer in the evil art.
On 23 September 2024, after the killing of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks in Pennsylvania and the arrest of would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh at the Trump International Golf Course near West Palm Beach, Florida, Bongino inferred that the U.S. government must be infiltrated by hostile agents and opined that the only solution is a polygraph dragnet.
Speaking to a $150,000 bounty that Routh had placed on Trump's head in a note found with him at the time of his arrest,
Bongino said:
Quote:Where the hell is this guy getting this alleged hundred and fifty thousand dollars he claims to have to quote, "finish the job," and why the hell is the DOJ, that can't seem to want to release the Nashville shooter manifesto, release this one right away, sends out a Bat Signal: 150K anyone willing to kill Donald Trump!
Are you shittin' me bro'? Whose dumbass idea was it to release that?
Now, I have a quick solution now. And no one's gonna like it, even my friends may not. But I'm sorry, it's the only way.
Folks, everyone's gonna have to be polygraphed. It's gonna take forever, but with some of the DoD assets, everyone in the Capital Region, everyone in the D.C. Capital Region who works anywhere near, or anyone on the Trump detail, you're probably gonna have to be polygraphed again.
Folks, there is somethin' goin' on out there, and if they don't find the source here, the source of this infiltration into their network, if they don't find it, then this is not done. This is not done!
I want you all to understand that. "Dan, why do you keep talking about this?" 'Cause we may not have a campaign! You're not gonna have a campaign without a candidate!
There's no way two attackers knew exactly where the soft spots in the security plan were. There's no chance. And why is it that the Iranians, with a history of honeypotting people in Israel and around the world, takin' advantage of loner kind of losers, using honeypots?
This isn't a Jason Bourne novel, they take advantage of idiots with nothing to lose. You've got two guys that fit the profile who magically found holes in the Secret Service security plan, seeming to know in advance where the security wouldn't be, and nobody's asking questions?
