James Comey claimed he cringed watching president Donald Trump’s FBI director Kash Patel struggle to answer a basic question during a recent Senate hearing.
The former FBI director, who has earned Trump’s enduring ire over the Russia probe during his first presidency, appeared Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” to discuss his successor’s handling of the job as the nation’s top federal investigator, and he was unimpressed by his response to Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) asking about the bureau’s tardy budget request.
“I cringe at that clip,” Comey said. “I actually feel kind of sorry for the guy. It’s like showing up for a final exam with no pencils and no paper and you didn’t even know there’s a final exam.”
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Daily Caller: ‘We Found Stuff’: Dan Bongino Claims Room Full Of Evidence Found From Comey-Era FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino claimed that a room containing evidence, much of it linked to former director James Comey, was discovered.
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“Does he still have loyalists in the building?” he asked. “Because when I hear the FBI director saying you guys are finding boxes that are hidden — how does that happen in the Bureau?”
“Well, we were there a couple of weeks, and luckily, there were a lot of people up there who grabbed us by the arm the minute we came in and said, ‘Thank you for being here — we need to talk,’” he said. “There are people there who are really horrified at what happened.”
The deputy director added, “And there was a room, and we found stuff. A lot of stuff.”
“A hidden room?” one of the hosts asked.
“I wouldn’t call it hidden — but hidden from us, at least, and not mentioned to us,” Bongino replied. “Then we found stuff in there, and a lot of it’s from the Comey era. We’re working our damnedest right now to declassify it.”
Sounds like some kind of Easter egg hunt? Entertainment to keep Trump’s unqualified appintees from doing any real damage?
“And just so you know—I get the public. I totally understand people saying, ‘Well, do it now.’ The process is, not all the information is ours to declassify — some is other intelligence agencies. We literally can’t do it,” he continued.
Not to worry, we all understand that not much of substance is there in the first place.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/dan-bongino-fbi-james-comey-room-evidence-lawrence-jones
Newsweek: Kash Patel gives update on Epstein Files release
FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News on Wednesday that the federal government is in no “rush” to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein and the so-called Epstein Files.
All we ever seem to get out of loser Patel is lip service.

https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-files-kash-patel-fbi-bondi-2078537
Reuters: FBI announces new probes into Dobbs Supreme Court leak, White House cocaine incident
More revenge meddling from the whacked out right wingers:
The FBI will launch new probes into the 2023 discovery of cocaine at the White House during President Joe Biden’s term and the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a top official announced on Monday.
Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster-turned-FBI deputy director [quite a promotion!], made the announcement on X, where he said he had requested weekly briefings on the cases’ progress.
Is Bongino even qualified to clean the toilets?
Alternet: More than revenge: Here’s why Trump is really targeting his own former officials | Opinion
During President Donald Trump’s first three months in office, his administration has targeted dozens of former officials who criticized him or opposed his agenda.
In April 2025, Trump directed the Department of Justice to investigate two men who served in his first administration, Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, because they spoke out against his policies and corrected his false claims about the 2020 election that he lost.
Further, Trump revoked the security clearances for advisers and retired generals who publicly criticized him during the 2024 election campaign.
On their face, such moves appear to be a coordinated campaign of personal retribution. But as political science scholars who study the origins of elected strongmen, we believe Trump’s use of the Justice Department to attack former officials who stood up to him isn’t just about revenge. It also deters current officials from defying Trump.
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But to carry out a power grab, incumbent leaders also need allies who will stay silent or, better yet, endorse their attempts to consolidate control.
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Recall that Trump only left office in January 2021 because key Republican officials defied his attempts to overturn an election he lost.
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In authoritarian contexts, loyalty is not an intrinsic quality. Authoritarian leaders do not necessarily select those with whom they have long work experience that leads to mutual trust.
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Instead, the challenge for authoritarian leaders is finding people to do their bidding. And the best people for this job are those who never would have earned their position in politics without the leader’s influence.
Unqualified appointees who can’t ascend to political power based on their merits have little choice but to stick with the leader. These people appear loyal, but only because their careers are tied to the leader staying in power.
Raw Story: ‘Traitor’: FBI’s Patel and Bongino infuriate MAGA fans with Fox interview
A Fox Morning Futures interview with Donald Trump’s two top appointees to the FBI created new problems for the administration after they both stated unequivocally that accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell while awaiting trial.
“You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don’t believe it,” host Maria Bartiromo pressed FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
If Jeffrey Epstein’s demise is causing discord among the MAGA fanbois, he’s probably more useful dead than alive.
Latin Times: Drudge Threatens $1 Trillion Lawsuit Over Trump’s ‘White House Wire’ Look-Alike Site [video]
Matt Drudge threatens a $1 trillion lawsuit against Donald Trump’s team, accusing them of ripping off the Drudge Report with a pro-Trump site called “The White House Wire.”
Chill, Matt! King Donald’s pathetic knock-off is not worth a wooden nickel, let along a trillion bucks.
Daily Beast: Kash Patel Quietly Removed as Acting ATF Director After Ghosting Gig
Great! Now fumigate the FBI and exterminate the creep there, too!
FBI Director Kash Patel has been quietly removed as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after he stopped showing up to work there, according to a report.
Patel, who remains in his FBI role, had not been “seen inside an ATF facility for weeks” …
Alternet: ‘Pushed me over the edge’: Here’s why MAGA is enraged at the Trump administration
Awwww, the poor babies who should still be in prison are distraught:
“The anger and depression is hitting hard today,” Richard Barnett, a self-described white nationalist who was sentenced to 54 months in prison for raiding the Capitol on Jan. 6, wrote on X on Monday. Barnett, who was among some 1,500s rioters pardoned by Trump, complained that Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino “stabbed us in the back” and “actually promoted one of our tormenters, Steve Jensen, into a position of great power within the FBI.”