{"id":3776,"date":"2026-01-24T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:39:06","slug":"ex-secret-service-agent-dan-bongino-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=3776","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"317\">Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino has publicly warned about<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"317\">growing security risks facing Donald Trump,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"317\">stressing that his concern is based on professional threat assessment, not politics.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"317\">Bongino argues that multiple danger factors are<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"317\">converging at once\u2014a scenario security experts view as especially serious.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"632\">He identifies four main threats: hostile foreign actors, radicalized domestic extremists,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"632\">internal hostility within parts of the federal bureaucracy,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"632\">and a security culture influenced by political optics.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"632\">Together, these risks create an unusually volatile<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"632\">environment requiring heightened, nonpartisan protection.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"902\">Bongino highlights foreign threats from Iran,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"902\">angered by Trump\u2019s role in the killing of Qassem Soleimani,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"902\">and China, which opposes Trump\u2019s return to power due to his past policies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"902\">Domestically, he warns that years of extreme rhetoric may encourage lone-wolf violence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"1165\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">He also raises concern about politicized security decisions,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"1165\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">cautioning that protection must remain threat-based.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"1165\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Bongino frames his warning as a test of institutional integrity,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"1165\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">noting that history shows the cost of ignoring credible risks can be irreversible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino has publicly warned about growing security risks facing Donald Trump, stressing that his concern is based on professional threat assessment, not politics. Bongino argues that multiple danger factors are converging at once\u2014a scenario security experts view as especially serious. 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