Maybe if I spent more time at shady parties with monied insiders I would’ve won. I heard you’d know a bit about that. You’ve always been a dick by the way. Grifting off your daddy like a suckling little doggie. When I first met you in the panhandle I knew you were a piece of…
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) January 6, 2026
“When I first met you in the panhandle I knew you were a piece of shit. It’s written all over that phony face of yours,” the reply from Dan Bongino continued after the cutoff.
Gaetz wrote that in response to the now-former Deputy FBI Director’s little pep talk of “We’ve got midterms coming up, and there’s no time for bullshit. This administration is cooking and REAL change simmers. If you’re spending your entire day bitching and whining with 3/4ths of the term still to go, then please find the exits. There’s no time for it. It’s not ‘infighting’ when you excise a cancer killing the host. It’s ‘outfighting’ because you’re not part of any movement I’m familiar with.”