"We are going to make the FBI great again, because if we don't have an FBI breaking up counterterror plots trying to kill us and they're worried about Moms for Liberty and pro-lifers, then we got a problem, folks," Bongino said on his podcast earlier this month, referring to the conservative parental rights group.
Even before Trump nominated Patel for FBI director, Bongino was one of his loudest advocates, arguing on his podcast that Patel was the only potential candidate who could "go in there and clean that mess up.".
Earlier this month, after Trump's border czar Tom Homan accused the FBI of leaking information about planned immigration raids, Bongino called the supposed leakers "stupid" and said they would be caught and go to jail.
"If you swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States as an FBI agent and engaged in a tyrannical investigation against Donald Trump with partisan intent and not the Constitution in mind, you do not deserve your job," he said on his podcast earlier this month.
Like Patel, Bongino says the FBI needs to expose political weaponization within the agency and move agents out of the nation's capital to chase criminals elsewhere in the country.
