Dan Bongino Would Consider FBI Director If Trump Offered Him the Job

Dan Bongino answers questions from The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan on Tuesday at the RNC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Tim Kennedy/Daily Signal)

MILWAUKEE — Radio talk show host and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino has no interest in returning to federal service, but if former President Donald Trump wins a second term and asks him to, he said he would consider it.

Bongino spoke to the Daily Signal on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he addressed some speculation about whether he would serve as FBI director in a Republican administration.

Bongino laughed at the idea, but said he was honored and flattered by it.

“Only if President Trump personally wanted me to,” he said. “Him. If he wanted me to. I never imagined myself going back to government, never, never, never. I can’t say that enough.”

“But I wouldn’t even take a salary for that kind of thing,” he continued. “There comes a time when your country matters more than anything. I never got into this for the money or the fame or any of that shit. It just happened… if he called me, I would have to consider anything.”

Bongino described the security breach at Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania as a “catastrophic failure” by the Secret Service. Snipers killed the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, after one of his shots grazed the former president’s right ear, leaving him bloody.

Donald Trump announced Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate Monday. The former president appeared Monday night at the Republican National Convention, where he appeared serious and emotional as he greeted his sons as well as Tucker Carlson, Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican.