Adam Schiff’s Past Under Scrutiny as Dan Bongino Drops Bombshell FBI Announcement

California Sen. Adam Schiff (D) may soon face renewed scrutiny as conservative firebrand and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino stunned his audience on Monday with a major announcement: he is stepping away from his career as a political commentator to take on a new role as Deputy Director of the FBI under newly appointed Director Kash Patel.

Bongino, a longtime critic of Schiff, made it clear that one of his top priorities in his new position will be exposing what he sees as the injustices behind the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion claims.

“I’m not letting this go. I need to find out what happened—because it can never happen again,” Bongino declared, per Trending Politics, referring to the FBI’s investigation into alleged ties between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian operatives.

“We had the FBI, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, officials in Congress, foreign governments, and intel people fabricate a story, invent a story that could have done serious and long-term harm to international relations with a nuclear-powered foe.”

The Democratic senator played a central role in advancing the Trump-Russia allegations, TP notes. In 2017, he claimed to have seen “more than circumstantial evidence” of collusion.

Even after a House investigation found no proof, Schiff pressed forward, releasing a 21-page report detailing continued efforts to investigate Trump. However, in 2023, special counsel John Durham delivered the final blow to the claims, finding no evidence to support them and criticizing the FBI for its “lack of analytical rigor” in handling the case.

Bongino directly called out Schiff’s role in what he described as a political hit job.

“You do not get to change the course of electoral politics by fabricating a story, hijacking the justice system to give a patina of truth to a fake story,” Bongino said. “Why do I bring that up now?”

“Because who was the ringmaster of that circus? Yes, Adam Schiff.”

“And no, I’m not letting it go,” he remarked.