Following another assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump just over 60 days after a bullet narrowly missed his head on July 13, Secret Service veteran and prominent political commentator Dan Bongino suggested the presence of a “mole” within the Secret Service or Department of Homeland Security.
On Sunday, Secret Service agents confronted 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh after he aimed a scoped rifle through the fence at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach. Routh was detected approximately 300 yards from the former president—whose golf game was not included in Trump’s public schedule—when he was spotted. He was later apprehended after an eyewitness identified both the suspect and his black Nissan.
Investigations have revealed that Routh traveled to Ukraine in 2022 and was involved in recruiting foreign fighters from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other nations to serve in the Ukrainian Army. Additionally, his social media profiles were filled with anti-Trump rhetoric, and he had donated to the Biden-Harris campaign in 2020.
During his Monday program, Bongino raised the chilling possibility that there could be a “mole” within the Secret Service or the wider Department of Homeland Security, under which the Secret Service falls. “I have to ask you all a really troubling question now that I promised you 10 years ago I would have called myself nuts for asking this,” Bongino said before a long pause. “Is there a mole inside the DHS or Secret Service?”
He also shared that several documented schemes have involved foreign nationals or governments attempting to infiltrate and undermine federal agencies. For example, he recounted a recent story involving two individuals who were convicted of impersonating federal agents as part of a sophisticated plot that deceived the protective agency.
“Folks, what happened yesterday in Secret Service jargon, the movement to the golf, the golf course, Donald Trump going to play golf at the golf course is what we call an OTR. Stands for an off-the-record movement, meaning it’s not on the official schedule, meaning very few people have access to it,” Bongino explained. “What makes me even more curious about what happened yesterday is apparently the decision to golf was made at the last minute. Meaning, there were probably – when the decision was made, less than 10 people who knew about it. How’d this guy know to set up there?”
The former Secret Service agent-turned-successful podcaster also pointed out that the suspect, Routh, was not from the area. “How did he know how to set up, and where to set up, and that Trump was going to be there? Folks, the mole may not be a foreign national himself. I don’t want you to think Jason Bourne stuff. Don’t overcomplicate what doesn’t need to be over complicated,” he said.
He added: “Is there a honeypot trap going on in the Secret Service? Is there a guy or a woman in the Secret Service having a relationship with someone who is not who they say they are? The Iranians have been running these traps in Israel and elsewhere. The Iranians who want to kill President Trump. Folks, how do we know that there’s not some kind of honeypot trap and that some agent or some DHS personnel, someone who has to be notified, is not in a relationship with someone?”
WATCH:
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Dan Bongino @dbongino asks the question:
“Is there a mole inside the Secret Service or DHS?”
“How did the would-be assassin KNOW that President Trump would be there?”
Dan also receives a call from “No Caller ID” during the segment:
“I know who that probably is, and… pic.twitter.com/Ihwu3vnvB5— MAGA Kitty (@SaveUSAKitty) September 16, 2024
