Former Secret Service agent and commentator Dan Bongino

When a man who spent more than a decade inside the United States Secret Service says he is worried about the safety of a former president, that warning deserves serious attention. This is not speculation from a pundit chasing headlines, nor is it partisan alarmism meant to inflame emotions. It comes from Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who protected presidents from both parties and worked during one of the most consequential periods in modern security history. Bongino understands how threats evolve, how political climates affect risk, and how quickly complacency can become catastrophic. When he publicly admitted that he is growing concerned about Donald Trump’s safety, it should have triggered a sober national conversation. Instead, his remarks barely broke through a media landscape consumed by legal analysis, partisan narratives, and endless outrage cycles. What Bongino offered was not conjecture, but a professional assessment rooted in experience: multiple threat streams are converging around a single political figure at a time when institutional trust and restraint appear dangerously weakened.

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