FBI deputy director to resigns amid controversy

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law enforcement job with provocative claims he made in his prior role as a popular podcast host. The departure, which had been expected, would be among the highest-profile resignations of the Trump administration. It comes as FBI leadership has been buffeted by criticism over Director Kash Patel’s use of a Government plane for personal purposes and social media posts about active investigations. Bongino was always an unconventional pick for the Number 2 job at the FBI.