Friday, 11 July 2025

FBI Dep. Director Bongino Issues Warning in Candid X Update, Reveals Trump Admin’s Next Big Move

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Dan Bongino’s appointment to the FBI as Kash Patel’s second in command came with high expectations from the MAGA movement.

Successes have been slower to roll in than many of us expected, and in some cases slower than we were promised.

But according to an update from FBI Deputy Director Bongino on his official FBI X account, “some things… are going well”.

The post has been seen more than 2 MILLION TIMES in less than 24 hours — a partial testament to the frustration felt by many, and the desire to see real progress.

Bongino detailed the work and successes he’s been part of in his update, including dropping some major warnings to one specific group of criminals: child predators.

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According to Bongino, what has started as a trickle is about to come down like rolling thunder on the heads of anyone targeting America’s children.

Bongino warned that Operation ‘Restoring Justice’ was only just the beginning of the FBI’s refocused efforts to find and lock up child predators in the US.

He also referenced the ongoing work that Pam Bondi has taken a lot of heat over, specifically regarding the Epstein files.

Bongino corroborated Bondi’s characterization of the material the FBI is going through, characterizing it as “voluminous amounts” of videos showing the sexual abuse of children, and the need to protect the victims’ identities.

Besides the Epstein issue, Bongino said the intense refocusing on hunting child predators is intended to “change the crime landscape” of the nation, according to a report by Fox News:

In a post on X, Bongino outlined several priorities and took aim at what he called misleading media coverage of the FBI’s work.

“The workforce has been working overtime on task force operations to remove dangerous illegal aliens from the country. The work continues,” Bongino wrote. “If you came here illegally to prey on our citizens, your days here are numbered.”

He said these operations are only getting started and will ramp up in the coming weeks.

“These removal and incarceration operations will dramatically change the crime landscape in the country when combined with the administration’s laser-focus on sealing the border shut,” he added.

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Bongino also pointed to a new initiative focused on protecting children from predators.

“Crimes against children are a priority for the workforce. Operation ‘Restoring Justice,’ where we locked up child predators and 764 subjects, in every part of the country, is just the beginning,” he said. “We are going to take your freedom if you take away a child’s innocence.”

He promised more enforcement efforts to come and warned those targeting children to “think twice.”

Bongino addressed the FBI’s efforts to respond to Congress and the public about several high-profile cases. These include the attack on Rep. Steve Scalise, the Nashville school shooting, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the origins of COVID-19. He also mentioned the ongoing work with the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

“There are voluminous amounts of downloaded child sexual abuse material that we are dealing with,” he wrote. “There are also victims’ statements that are entitled to specific protections. We need to do this correctly, but I do understand the public’s desire to get the information out there.”

Here’s the post Bongino shared on Saturday; (full text down below for easier reading):

Here’s the full text of Deputy Director Bongino’s update via X:

I’d like to update you on some things that I think are going well, and some things that we can, and will, do better.

The workforce has been working overtime on task force operations to remove dangerous illegal aliens from the country. The work continues. The message is clear. If you came here illegally to prey on our citizens, your days here are numbered. These removal and incarceration operations will dramatically change the crime landscape in the country when combined with the administration’s laser-focus on sealing the border shut. Expect these operations to ramp up, not slow down.

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Crimes against children are a priority for the workforce. Operation “Restoring Justice,” where we locked up child predators and 764 subjects, in every part of the country, is just the beginning. We are going to take your freedom if you take away a child’s innocence. Think twice if you’ve targeted children, because you’re next.

We’re clearing information to Congress, and the public, as quickly as possible. In just the couple of months since we’ve sworn in we’ve responded to requests for information on the attack on Rep. Scalise and members of Congress, the Nashville attack, Crossfire Hurricane, the COVID cover-up and more. We are working with the DOJ on the Epstein case and, as the AG stated, there are voluminous amounts of downloaded child sexual abuse material that we are dealing with. There are also victim’s statements that are entitled to specific protections. We need to do this correctly, but I do understand the public’s desire to get the information out there.

We’re doing our best in the current budgetary environment to prioritize the mission, act as good fiscal stewards, find waste and inefficiencies, and to enact reforms while moving the FBI forward. It hasn’t been easy, but we’ll get it done. We have weekly meetings where we meet with our CFO, and our new CIO and CTO team, and we go through budget items line by line. It’s your money, and it’s your FBI. We won’t forget that.

I have no desire to sugarcoat this one – it’s been difficult in this new role to stay relatively quiet while certain elements of the media continue to entirely fabricate stories about what we’re doing at the FBI. But that’s part of the job as a public servant. I don’t work for myself anymore, I work for the public. And while I can’t address all of the nonsense in this one post, I will address the repeated attacks on Director Patel. The Director’s office is attached to mine. I am in most of the briefings he is in. He spends anywhere between 10-12 hours in the office attending meetings with everyone from foreign heads of law enforcement to our counter-terror teams, and more. Any assertion otherwise is a verifiable lie designed to stop our reforms and fracture your trust. I will die on this hill. You are being clearly lied to by people with an agenda, and it’s not your agenda.

Thanks for allowing me to communicate with you on this channel. Other things are happening as well, and they will become evident in the coming weeks and months. Keep watching us and holding us accountable.

God bless America, and all those who defend Her.

That update rings just as true and authentic as ever in my ears — no different from the authentic honesty of Bongino’s reporting from his old podcast show.

That said, I get it.

I get the frustration with the FBI (and let’s not forget the DOJ) in failing to fully deliver on what the American people were promised as quickly as we were led to believe it would happen.

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But as I peruse the reactions online, I’ve been reminded by several prominent conservative voices on social media to make sure I’m looking at all this with the right perspective.

One post in particular used that exact word to highlight what he believes is a shortsighted loss of PERSPECTIVE as we watch the Trump Administration from the outside:

Here’s the full text of Clandestine’s post, in which he rightly encourages MAGA to imagine going back in time, and looking forward to now:

If took a time machine, and went back to any period over the last 4 years, and told MAGA that 4 months into Trump’s term, Kash and Bongino would be #1 and #2 at the FBI, and they are arresting child abusers and going over the Epstein files…

EVERYONE would have taken that deal.

That’s not even taking into account all the peace deals, tariff plan to get rid of income tax, shutting down gain of function, removing chemicals from our food, DOGE, USAID, securing the border, removing DEI and wokeness, deporting illegals, JFK/RFK files, etc. etc.

How quickly some have forgotten just how bad it was, and how much progress we have already made.

Perspective.

I’m going to admit it; he’s got me dead to rights there.

It’s easy for that normalcy bias to work in an almost reverse capacity, allowing us to easily forget just how bad it was… and just how much progress has been made.

Even the infamous Catturd account has chimed in with a post on the subject, which I translate to mean… “give them time to work”:

If Bongino’s update post is anywhere near accurate and truthful, those “big things” are definitely coming.

And hopefully that recent operation netting tons of really bad people — and saving countless children, when you consider those who will never be hurt by them in the future — will truly be just the beginning.

Here’s the briefing held by FBI Director Kash Patel and Pam Bondi detailing that operation:

It may not seem like a lot in the grand scheme, knowing how big this problem is…

But the fact is, the United States FBI and other federal agencies just arrested over 200 child predators and took them off the street.  (That’s actually their job!)

That’s is truly a very big deal if you’re one of those kids.

And it’s something that WAS NOT HAPPENING before now to any degree close worth mentioning, at least not by the feds.

Rescues and arrests like that were primarily happening only as a result of individuals and private groups working tirelessly to make it happen — until now.

Here’s more details on that operation according to a report in The Hill:

Authorities arrested more than 200 suspected child predators in a five-day, multiagency operation centered on online contact with minors last week, federal officials announced Wednesday.

“These depraved human beings, if convicted, will face the maximum penalty in prison — some life,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said during a news conference.

Because of the 205 arrests, Bondi said, 115 children across the U.S. were rescued from online predators. Charges include online enticement, child sex trafficking and the production, distribution and possession of child sexual abuse material, per a news release.

The investigation, dubbed “Operation Restore Justice,” was a joint effort of 55 FBI field offices and more than 90 U.S. Attorneys Offices across the country, the release said.

FBI director Kash Patel noted during the news conference that arrests included several “people in places of public trust,” and called out suspects who were “teachers, law enforcement personnel and other professionals that we look to safeguard our children.”

Minnesota State Trooper Jeremy Francis Plonski, who Patel named among those arrested in the operation, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the charge of production of child pornography.

Patel also pointed out Jose Alexis Valdez Sosa, a Mexican migrant who was in the country illegally, was arrested in Virginia and charged with transporting a minor across state lines; and Linwood Barnhill, a former D.C. police officer and registered sex offender, who faces charges related to sex trafficking children by force.

“These are just three examples that show you the extent and the depravity of these horrific crimes, and we need to team up together with the American public to find the rest,” Patel said.  (Emphasis added.)

That scourge must be stopped.

And from all accounts, the FBI is again being ‘WEAPONIZED’ — but this time, it’s in the RIGHT WAY!

So when I see posts like this popping up across social media…

My answer is a resounding “Yes”.

Am I still frustrated?  God, yes.  I want to see the arrests of those in high places playing that game of “Rules for thee, but not for me”.

I want the high-level perpetrators of injustice, specifically those targeting children, LOCKED UP.

NOW.

And we know there are more — some of them in the highest levels of government.

But I can only imagine the existing red tape, Deep State blockades, and legitimate work that goes in to finally getting to put these guys in handcuffs.

Hopefully I’m not just gullible, but when Bongino writes that “Crimes against children are a priority” for the FBI now… I believe him.

I know from personal experience that this has NEVER been a top priority of the FBI or any other federal agency with a budget to actually do something about it — until now.

That change alone warrants our admiration and respect for anyone who has created that shift from the inside of a government bureaucracy in such a short time.

Time will tell if the work Bongino is touting proves itself out.  We’ll either see the headlines, or we won’t.

I, for one, am willing to give them that time — for now.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

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