Stelter on Dan Bongino Appointment: Trump ‘Likes Figures out of Central Casting’

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STELTER: "Yeah, I‘ve been following Bongino for years, although we did both block each other on Twitter, it got pretty heated years ago. Look, Trump likes figures right out of central casting, and Bongino fits the bill. He became a big star on Fox News during the first Trump term. He was saying all the things Trump wanted to hear, including denigrating the FBI. You know, he‘s a macho figure, someone who‘s out there trying to pick fights and stoke fights. And that‘s the thing about Bongino. The incentives for television and radio and podcasting are very different than the incentives for government service. You know, Bongino was incentivized to throw punches, to channel people‘s rage and resentments, to stoke fears, to promote conspiracy theories, including Trump‘s theories about the 2020 election. He was a big pusher of the big election lies in 2020. Those were the incentives for Bongino at FOX and then later on the radio, on podcasts at Rumble, a right-wing video website. Those are just very different incentives than what he now steps into at the FBI."