Dan Bongino in one of his last press conferences as deputy FBI director. Photo: Getty Images For a while there, it seemed as if conservative commentator and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino wanted to rise as high as he could in the Republican Party. He ran unsuccessfully for the Senate and the House in three straight cycles — in two different states — before settling into a career in podcasting in the first Trump term. But last year, upon reaching a position of real power as the deputy