Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino really did skip work on Friday amid an escalating rage at dipshit Attorney General Pam Bondi, Axios’s Marc Caputo reports after having been legitimately scooped by none other than batshit insane white nationalist conspiracy freak Laura Loomer on Friday.

Caputo – who is no joke despite taking a paycheck from the perfidious bullet point factory – gets into more detail, as he should: The Bongino vs Bondi fight specifically centers on the “missing minute” from the video from outside Epstein’s cell in the Manhattan lockup on the night in question.

Separately, and abso-fucking-lutely not helping at all, Wired reports that the video file disseminated by the Trump Regime contains metadata indicating that it was not “raw footage” from the jailhouse’s surveillance system, but was likely saved at least twice as a file from Adobe Premiere Pro or a similar editing suite. Wired cautions that in itself is not any evidence of actual tampering and could be just them stitching separate clips together in the 11-hour long file. Again, definitely not helping.

Back to the Axios article: The fight began Wednesday when Bongino was confronted with a NewsNation article that said he and K$H had wanted more info than had been released late Sunday but had been overruled. “Pam said her piece. Dan said his piece. It didn’t end on friendly terms,” a source present in the room said. This next quote from a “senior administration official” is DEFINITELY not going to help: “The fact is, Dan was for releasing the information with the video and had no problem until he got heat online,” lol. “Bongino found the video with the missing minute. He vouched for it after a ‘thorough review,’ he said, and he thought this would end the matter. When that didn’t work, he lost his mind and ran out of DC,” the source added and that sure sounds like he really quit.

“Dan is not the bad guy here. He shouldn’t take the fall,” a “pro-Bongino source” said.

“The blowup involving Trump’s senior law enforcement officials showed just how much the administration has been rocked by its handling of the Epstein case. At different times, Bondi, Bongino and Patel each have complained to others that they were being unfairly blamed for the Epstein flap and hung out to dry,” writes Caputo in the article’s “Big Picture” bullet point.