Nicole Silverio White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt berated the media for downplaying FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s career in law enforcement during Tuesday’s press briefing. The media has amped up Bongino’s role as a conservative podcaster after President Donald Trump tapped him to serve in his new role on Sunday night.

NBC News momentarily handed Elon Musk the presidency — albeit unintentionally — by claiming that he named Dan Bongino as the FBI’s Deputy Director.

In a memo on Sunday evening, the FBI Agents Association told its 14,000 members that new director Kash Patel had assured them that he would follow tradition and name a career special agent with operational expertise as his deputy director.

His podcast, The Dan Bongino Show, is the 56th most popular podcast on Spotify and has welcomed Trump as a repeat guest. He will join the newly-appointed bureau director Kash Patel, the latest in a series of loyalist picks that have attracted backlash.

President Trump named podcaster Dan Bongino as the new Deputy FBI Director. NBC News' Ken Dilanian has more details on the pick. Former Senior Executive in the FBI Counterterrorism Division Christopher O’Leary joins Chris Jansing to share his insight on the agency and why the pick is "problematic.

The far-right podcaster has condemned the FBI as “irredeemably corrupt." No wonder so many former and current agents are upset about Dan Bongino's ascension.

The No. 2 job at the F.B.I. will give the provocateur Dan Bongino access to sensitive intelligence, as well as speculation and false accusations that agents receive.

Dan Bongino, the conservative podcaster named deputy director of the FBI, has spent the past seven years publicly criticizing the agency he will now help run.