Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino criticized former Trump supporter and conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson for claiming to still have texts from Bongino in which he allegedly claimed that President Trump “was the one to shut down the investigation” into the assassination attempt of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Bongino, who returned to his podcasting career after leaving the federal government, wrote on social media last week: “I’m granting nepo baby @TuckerCarlson permission to publish the text messages he claims to have stating that I told him ‘President Trump shut down the investigation into Butler.’ Those were his words, and he should show he has a pair of [expletive] and publish them. Spoiler alert: He won’t. Because they don’t exist. I’ve already shown you the messages which say the opposite. I’m really sorry if you’re still dumb enough to fall for this Times Square ‘Rolex’ salesman’s act.”
I’m granting nepo baby @TuckerCarlson permission to publish the text messages he claims to have stating that I told him “President Trump shut down the investigation into Butler.”
Those were his words, and he should show he has a pair of balls and publish them.
Spoiler alert:… https://t.co/OOg2p0xffb — Dan Bongino (@dbongino) July 2, 2026
Bongino added that he’s “still waiting” for Carlson to publish the correspondence.
He added: “As we all anxiously wait for Tucker to produce a single piece of evidence for any of his psychotic claims, I sense a growing rage amongst his shrinking number of groupies. They must know by now that they’ve been played. They’ve invested their time in a circus clown who has backed himself in a corner. So rather than admit they got played, they rage out and claw at their own faces while emptying themselves into their pull-up diapers. It’s a sad thing to witness. The doomers and grifters are all being exposed.”
Help me get why ANY of you are ok with bongino saying this after he did you dirty on epstein? https://t.co/EAhG0p42eD
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) July 6, 2026
NewsNation political commentator Chris Cuomo jumped into the feud and replied to Bongino’s posts with a question for the former FBI deputy director’s followers/fanbase: “Help me get why ANY of you are ok with bongino saying this after he did you dirty on epstein?”
[NOTE: Prior to joining the FBI, Bongino often argued on his show that the government was deliberately withholding the files to protect high-profile insiders from accountability and that the alleged client list was a “huge deal.” Bongino resigned after nine months in the bureau and amid a clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the public release of the Epstein Files.]