{"id":5655,"date":"2025-07-14T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:42:24","slug":"trump-talks-to-bongino-says-hes-in-good-shape-amid-epstein-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=5655","title":{"rendered":"Trump Talks To Bongino, Says He\u2019s In \u2018Good Shape\u2019 Amid Epstein Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump expressed confidence in FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino amid the fallout from the case involving disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a press gaggle at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday evening, Trump was asked if Bongino was still the deputy FBI director and whether the two men had spoken recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOh I think so. I did, I spoke to him today. Dan Bongino, very good guy. I\u2019ve known him a long time. I\u2019ve done his show many many times. He sounded terrific, actually. No, I think he\u2019s in good shape,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bongino has been at the center of the internal conflict over the Epstein case, according to a person close to the situation, who claims that the deputy director is unhappy about how the records were handled and has argued with Justice Department authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump expressed confidence in FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino amid the fallout from the case involving disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. During a press gaggle at&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5656,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions\/5656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}