Daniel John Bongino (born December 4, 1974) is an American conservative[1] political commentator, radio show host, and author.

[7][3] In 2002 he left the New York Field Office to become an instructor at the Secret Service Training Academy in Beltsville, Maryland.

[9] A year later, he published a memoir, Life Inside the Bubble (2013), about his career as a Secret Service agent and political campaign.

The book addresses his experiences protecting presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, investigating federal crimes, and mounting a campaign for US Senate.

[10][11][2] A former colleague criticized him for trying to use his proximity to President Barack Obama in his political career: "He's trying to draw attention to himself and he's hijacking the Secret Service brand.

[12] In January 2016, he published a second book, The Fight: A Secret Service Agent's Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine.

[19] Bongino is a proponent of Spygate, a conspiracy theory alleging illegal spying on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was perpetrated by Barack Obama's administration.

[25] Bongino, a former host of NRATV (National Rifle Association Television) among his other pursuits, was a vociferous defender on his podcast of the insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol.

He depicted the riot as a natural result of political violence normalized by leftists, particularly by Black Lives Matter protestors following the murder of George Floyd.

In the episode "About Yesterday" on January 7, 2021, Bongino declared that liberal media hypocritically celebrated the violence committed in the summer and fall of 2020 by protesters for racial justice.

[26] In March 2021, Cumulus Media signed Bongino to replace The Rush Limbaugh Show on its talk radio stations.

[35] On April 20, 2023, Bongino announced that he had parted ways with Fox News, citing failed contract negotiations.

[39] Brian Rosenwald, a talk radio historian, believed Bongino's request was never much of an ultimatum, seeing little reason for Cumulus or its host to sever ties.

There was an incentive for him to stay with them because of that platform, and they've invested a lot of money in launching this show and building it up.In a December 2021 interview with The New Yorker, Bongino stated that he had been vaccinated for COVID-19, at the advice of his doctor due to his lymphoma.

[44] Bongino has called the investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion a "total scam",[45] and is a proponent of the Spygate conspiracy theory.

[46] In May 2018, he was quoted by Trump in a tweet, as saying that former CIA Director John Brennan "has disgraced the entire Intelligence Community.

He is the one man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American's faith in the Intelligence Community and in some people at the top of the FBI.

[55] Bongino ran for the U.S. House of Representatives seat from Maryland's 6th Congressional District in the 2014 election against incumbent Democrat John Delaney.

[60] He faced Chauncey Goss, a Sanibel City Councilman who sought the seat in 2012, and Francis Rooney, a businessman and former United States Ambassador to the Holy See, in the primary.

In 2012, he and his wife operated three home-based businesses, selling martial arts apparel, designing Web sites, and consulting on security and risk management.

[66][65] Bongino announced in June 2020 that he had purchased an "ownership stake" of unspecified value in Parler, an alternative social media platform.

[72] On October 16, he confirmed that he received an official diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma, adding that he would be continuing treatment in consultation with his doctors.