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Former Secret Service agent and commentator Dan Bongino
Bongino’s background lends unusual weight to his warning. He served in the Secret Service from 1999 to 2011, protecting presidents including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and working in the post-9/11 environment when executive protection doctrine was fundamentally reshaped. He has seen how threat environments shift and how rhetoric on the ground translates into real-world danger. His concern centers on what protection professionals call threat convergence, a moment when independent sources of hostility align simultaneously. According to Bongino, Trump currently sits at the intersection of several such threats: hostile foreign actors with strategic motives, domestic extremists radicalized by years of incendiary language, institutional hostility within elements of the federal bureaucracy, and a broader degradation of security culture driven by politicization and optics. Any one of these factors would merit heightened vigilance. Together, they create a volatile and unprecedented risk environment that demands serious, nonpolitical attention.
