‘Your story is trash!’ Dan Bongino rages as rifts reported in Trump admin

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino slammed The New York Times Tuesday following its report exposing alleged rifts within the Justice Department, decrying the outlet’s coverage as “trash.”

Based on discussions with seven current and former Trump administration officials, The New York Times published a story Monday exposing the alleged “mutual disdain” that both Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche shared for FBI Director Kash Patel.

Patel’s tenure has been plagued with controversy, both for his handling of investigations into Jeffrey Epstein – the convicted sex offender who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges – and the probe into the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, which critics say he may have already jeopardized.

Blanche immediately fired back at The New York Times, writing in a social media post Monday that “virtually every part of their ‘reporting’ is exaggerated or fabricated.”

“Those dummies,” Blanche wrote on X.

While the official X account for The New York Times responded to Blanche’s post, writing that the outlet was “confident in [its] reporting,” Bongino hit back at the outlet on Tuesday, alleging its report to be false.

“I have DIRECT knowledge and can state, with certainty, that your story is trash,” Bongino wrote in a social media post on X.

The New York Times is not alone in reporting on rifts within the Justice Department, with multiple outlets reporting of “angry face-to-face” confrontations, including one between Bondi and Bongino over fallout from its botched handling of investigations into Epstein. Fox News reported that the “knives [were] out” for Patel at the FBI over his blunders, with an insider claiming that the “White House, Bondi [and] Blanche” had lost all confidence in Patel.