Kash Patel and Dan Bongino sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Maria Bartiromo, and of all the issues discussed, the one that stuck out to me was the snippet about Russiagate.
The FBI is Ground Zero–as important as the Clinton Campaign’s push to get the Steele Dossier into the public, it was the FBI that picked up the ball and ran with it for two years. In the process, they violated numerous laws. Conspirators who literally plotted to prevent Trump from getting elected and then to destroy him once in office were exposed–and eventually paid off by the Biden administration–and FBI officials lied to the FISA courts to get warrants to spy on Trump associates.
There are a lot of bodies buried, and the map to where they are is found at the FBI.
Kash Patel & Dan Bongino on Russiagate Hoax:
(I want to hear your thoughts after listening)
“I’m telling you and the American public that we have now found material and information and people who wanted to hide it from the world since we got in these seats…
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— Farm Girl Carrie 👩🌾 (@FarmGirlCarrie) May 18, 2025
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino–the Director and Assistant Director of the FBI– are both hardened professionals who have reason to be focused on rooting out the truth, and Bartiromo asked the obvious question: Will anything be done with the evidence that gets uncovered? And why haven’t we already seen what has been dug up?
The answer was interesting, and it rings true: the evidence is there, but if you want to do anything with it you have to do it right, not just dump it in the public realm. It will take some time to do it right, especially since, unlike during his time leading the Russiagate investigation for the House Intelligence Committee, Patel has his fingers in a lot of pies.
Is this an excuse, as Pam Bondi’s walkback from exposing the Epstein Files appears to be?
It’s impossible to say for certain, but I don’t think so for a variety of reasons. Patel and Bongino have a personal stake in the outcome, and it’s hard to imagine that there are any political reasons to cover up malfeasance of FBI agents, Obama officials, or Biden officials. With the Epstein files, you can easily imagine some politically connected people working hard to keep their names out of the news, including Republicans or big donors. A cynical person–me–might be led to believe that Bondi might be persuaded to hide inconvenient facts. I don’t know that this has happened, but it is plausible.
Less so here, for the reasons outlined.
No, I think the problem here is different. If you really want to hold anybody accountable, you have to build an ironclad case, and the FBI is thorough, for good or ill. Building cases can take years, and the people who are interested in escaping responsibility have had nearly a decade to hide their complicity, and some may still be in positions of responsibility.
Which brings up this thought: even if an ironclad case can be put together, will anybody pay a price? We can expect that no matter how strong the case, every Democrat will circle the wagons and fight to the death to prevent it. And since some members of the judiciary were complicit–those FISA Court judges, perhaps–everybody in the establishment will do their best to preserve the system that gave them the power to nearly take down a president.
With the Epstein cases, I do not believe that any convictions could be obtained, barring video evidence, and if there IS video evidence, the perpetrators should already have been charged. Anything short of video evidence, and the billionaires and celebrities will escape jail. In which case, I just want all the evidence dumped into the public realm and for the public scorn to provide at least some measure of accountability.
With Crossfire Hurricane, I want scalps. I want people who can be put in jail to rot there. I want to see perp walks. I want every high-level felon destroyed, just as they tried to destroy Trump, General Flynn, and everybody else.
Nothing short of that will do. Just look at how Strzok and Page made out like bandits.
So if it takes a year to get there from here, I am fine with that. If we don’t get there from here, I will be pissed.
