Guest Post by Eric Peters

Dan Bongino – the former Internet personality and current Trump administration official (he is the deputy director of the FBI) has gone remarkably silent since his awkward interview – alongside Kash Patel – during which questions about the Epstein Business were asked but answered with the constrained assurances of a man with a gun pointed at his head. The why begs some awful questions.

Bongino was a scrapper. He was famous among conservatives, at least, for all the Biden Years – hammering away at whatever the latest outrage was. When he was appointed by Trump to high office, most of the people who voted for Trump were delighted. They assumed it heralded an accountability moment. At last! People – bad people – were going to be held responsible for the bad things they’d done.

One especially bad person being Jeff Epstein, the convicted sex offender – so much for the “hoax” – whom everyone suspects (with reason) of having been the front man for a so-called “honeypot” operation possibly financed by the intelligence apparatus of a foreign state. The latter makes sense to many people because it is a reasonable explanation for the strange obeisance to a certain foreign state; an obeisance that is frequently embarrassingly so. Why, after all, would an American congressman, senator or president act in a way that is contrary not only to the interests of his own (putatively) country but also contrary to his own political interests?

The best example of this being the current president.

If he is not pig-blind stupid – and that is a possibility – he must see that his own supporters are appalled and furious with him over his slavish devotion to the Greater Israel project and the actions of the literally indicted war criminal leader of that project, Benjamin Netanyahu. The latter is regarded by many as being the real president – of the United States – and with cause. It has become extremely damaging to Trump politically. He either cannot see this – and is therefore either an imbecile (given the obviousness of the outrage about Israel First rather than the America First that was promised) or he is owned because of what he did.

This latter possibility would certainly explain the way he has gone off-the-rails with regard to his “good friend,” Jeff Epstein. Also his politically insane attacks on Thomas Massie (who curiously is the only member of Congress, apparently, who does not have a “handler” assigned to him by a foreign state’s U.S. lobby) and most recently upon Majorie Taylor Greene, triggered by her vote to release all of the so-called “files” about the Epstein Business.

When a man attacks his allies it suggests he has some very powerful “friends.”

Back to Bongino. Where’d he go? More finely, where’d the lion who was Bongino go? The lion who got permanently banned from YouTube – when was not working for Trump – back in 2023, for publicly outing the lies about “COVID” that were at the time fiercely defended as being true. “Listen, that Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal, please do not let that story go. Keep your eye on this,” he said.

What happened to that guy?

He has gone silent – after a very public blow-up (and disappearance) over the sudden insistence that there’s nothing-to-see-here as regards that “terrific guy” who likes women “on the younger side” Trump now claims to have barely known and there’s nothing-to-see-here. By the way, does anyone remember the rift that opened between Trump and Elon Musk after the latter publicly stated that Trump has something to hide about his friendship with that “terrific guy”?

“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk posted on his own platform, X – before deleting it. Why did he do that? Musk has also gone silent. DOGE has disappeared, too.

Back to Bongino. Why did he squirm like a guilty lawyer being interviewed by Mike Wallace on the old 60 Minutes show when he was asked about the sudden assertion of “case closed” about the inquiry into that “terrific guy” and his doings? He appeared shifty and agitated – as if under duress.

Is that not the most reasonable explanation for his behavior as well as his disappearance from public view?

It begs the obvious question: What have they got on him? Or – assuming they do not have anything on him – what are they threatening they will do to him (or his family) if he does not go along with the nothing-to-see-here line?

When one reflects on the fact that the state that may have been Epstein’s employer is run by people who are religious-fanatic gangsters who will “hit” anyone they deem a threat to their organization, it is not unreasonable to assume they made it clear to Bongino that a set of cement shoes could very easily be arranged for him. Remember: This state is currently headed by a literally indicted war criminal. It has been headed by literal terrorists, including such as Menachem Begin – who was a key member of the team that blew up a hotel full of civilians in 1946.

Then there is the case of the USS Liberty – suppressed for decades by the government of this country for reasons that suggest the government of this country is a facade rather than the government of this country. More recently, there is that dirty business involving exploding pagers. Had such a thing been done by any other state, it would have been (rightly) denounced everywhere as terrorism.

So there is sound reason to believe that Bongino has gone quiet – about that “terrific guy” – because he knows he’d better be quiet.

Maybe there’s another reason.

Maybe there is nothing-to-see-here. But if that is the case, why the fierce insistence that there isn’t – and we’re not allowed to see for ourselves that there isn’t?

Addendum: Trump on Sunday suddenly reversed course (again) and now says he supports releasing the files. Maybe now they will be released. Not redacted. We’ll have to wait and see.