Dan Bongino is a Republican running for congress in Florida’s 19th congressional district. Bongino, 41, moved to Florida from Maryland, where he campaigned unsuccessfully in 2012 for the U.S. Senate and in 2014 for the U.S. House. Seat shopping extraordinaire!
Dan Bongino goes off in an uncontrolled and (taped) tirade against Politico’s Marc Caputo heard in the youtube video below. Bongino was told in writing in advance that the conversation would be taped. This is a filthy, maniacal, pathological and devastating recording. I believe that Bongino is exactly the type of mentally unstable candidate that Trump has let lose in this country and it’s time we put an electoral stop to it. Notice that Bongino even uses many of the now all too familiar Trump slurs in his tirade.
Bongino was a former Secret Service agent. He shouldn’t be allowed within 100 miles of a gun or fire arm. How can an unhinged person like this ever serve in the Secret Service and I wonder what precipitated his departure?
Former Secret Service agent and congressional candidate Dan Bongino went on a screaming, profanity-laced tirade Sunday during a telephone call with a POLITICO Florida reporter who asked him to clarify his criticism of a story published by the Naples Daily News.
The dispute began on Twitter early in the day when Bongino bashed the Naples Daily News for writing “propaganda.” Asked by POLITICO reporter Marc Caputo about any inaccuracies or errors in the Naples Daily News story concerning Florida’s 19th Congressional District, Bongino didn’t directly answer the question.
The newspaper had reported Sunday that Bongino was "lacking" financial backing from the district, noting that only 6 percent of itemized donations came from Collier and Lee counties. Citing Federal Election Commission records, it also reported that he raised "a disproportionate amount of his money from donations of less than $200."
Bongino asked Caputo to call him and, after a long back and forth of exchanges on Twitter, he gave his telephone number after being told the conversation would be recorded. Bongino later hung up after losing his temper and shouting “shut the fuck up! … Go fuck yourself, you piece of shit!”
This is a longish youtube recording of the situation and worth your attention to the end. It is contentious right from the beginning, but tune in at about 6:44 in the youtube recording for a full throttle, off the rails Bongino. The end of the recording is particularly explosive.
x YouTube VideoAnother occasion where Bongino went off the rails on live TV. CNN’s Don Lemmon confronts Bongino and is on the receiving end of his peculiar, nasty and angry “temperament”. Watch the expressions of David Gergen and Jeffrey Toobin as Bongino lets loose:
x YouTube Video“You don’t know crap about this, Don. You’re a TV guy. I was a Secret Service agent,” Bongino said to CNN’s host Don Lemon.
...and of course, Bongino is a hypocrite to the end:
A YouTube clip, published on Aug. 6, 2012, shows Bongiono at a fundraiser in Maryland during that bid, criticizing Republican politicians for doing precisely what he’s done three years later: leaving their district to campaign somewhere where it’s easier to win.
“This is where the fight is. The fight against the ideology that other men and women should take more of your money, more of your healthcare decisions, and all of your educational system away is happening here. This is ground zero for it. Why would you leave? Relish this fight. Take it in. Fight in your home. Don’t leave,” he said.
Bongino said he would keep the same temperament if elected to Congress.
“Ha! Yeah, you know what: I don’t take any crap,” he said. “End of story. You want to vote for a representative who sits there while you’re all getting screwed over, go right ahead. Have a good time.”