{"id":10852,"date":"2026-01-18T01:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10852"},"modified":"2026-01-18T01:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:39:55","slug":"former-secret-service-agent-and-commentator-dan-bongino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10852","title":{"rendered":"Former Secret Service agent and commentator Dan Bongino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dan Bongino\u2019s warning carries weight because it comes from someone trained to anticipate worst-case scenarios and stop them. He sees a former president caught at the intersection of foreign retaliation, domestic extremism, and a political culture so reckless it jokes about elimination. When risks stack this way, professionals stop debating odds and start fearing inevitability\u2014unless something changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His deepest concern isn\u2019t just that Trump is a target, but that his protection could be weakened by politics, optics, or quiet resentment. That should alarm even Trump\u2019s harshest critics. If security becomes partisan, every future leader is exposed. This isn\u2019t about one man\u2014it\u2019s about whether institutions can still rise above the blood sport politics has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Bongino\u2019s warning carries weight because it comes from someone trained to anticipate worst-case scenarios and stop them. He sees a former president caught at the intersection of foreign retaliation, domestic extremism, and a political culture so reckless it jokes about elimination. When risks stack this way, professionals stop debating odds and start fearing inevitability\u2014unless &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}