Dan Bongino Biography
Dan Bongino, full name, Daniel John Bongino (born December 4, 1974) is a right-wing political commentator, radio show host, and author from the United States.
From 1995 to 1999, he was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, and from 1999 to 2011, he was a Secret Service agent.
Bongino unsuccessfully ran for Congress three times as a Republican. At the moment, he is the host of The Dan Bongino Show on Fox Nation and Westwood One radio affiliates, as well as Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on Fox News.
Dan Bongino Salary 2023
Dan Bongino is among the most salaried persons on Fox, his salary is $8.5 million every year, and gets a monthly salary of $655,870, he is an American-born journalist and conservative political commentator who is working as a talk show host of the commentary program, Hannity, on Fox News, since 2009.
| Year | 2023 | 2024 |
| Dan Bongino Salary | $8.5 million | $9 million |
| Dan Bongino Net Worth | $39 million | $42 million |
Dan Bongino Net Worth 2023
Dan Bongino is estimated to have a net worth of $39 million at present. He has accumulated his net worth with the versatility he has shown in each field he has worked in. His main source of income is his journalism career.
Dan Bongino Parents (Mother, Father)
Bongino was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens. He is of Italian ancestry. He attended Archbishop Molloy High School.
He graduated from Queens College in the city with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology, as well as a Master of Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.
Details about his mother and father’s name and what they did for a living are currently unavailable, however, he was raised alongside his siblings.
Dan Bongino Career
From 1995 to 1999, Bongino worked for the New York City Police Department.
Bongino joined the US Secret Service as a special agent in 1999 and left the New York Field Office in 2002 to become an instructor at the Secret Service Training Academy in Beltsville, Maryland.
During George W. Bush’s second term, he was assigned to the Presidential Protection Division in 2006. After Barack Obama was elected president, he remained on protective duty until May 2011, when he left to run for the United States Senate.
Life Inside the Bubble, Bongino’s first book about his career as a Secret Service agent, was released in 2013.
The book discusses his experiences protecting Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as his 2012 run for the United States Senate in Maryland.
Former Secret Service colleagues chastised Bongino for using his Secret Service background in his political campaign and for saying he had secret information from Obama White House conversations he had overheard.
A former colleague chastised him for attempting to advance his political career by exploiting his proximity to President Barack Obama: “He’s attempting to draw attention to himself by appropriating the Secret Service brand.
That is all he has going for him.” Bongino claimed he was privy to “high-level discussions” in the White House.
According to unnamed former coworkers, he “tends to exaggerate his importance on the presidential detail and his proximity” and that “we don’t sit in on White House meetings.” We do not attend high-level meetings.” In response to an anonymous former colleague’s criticism, Bongino stated “”There’s nothing private in the book,” and “it’s not a tell-all.” It’s my Secret Service story.” He denied Birtherism, the theory that President Obama was born outside of the United States.
His second book, The Fight: An Inside Account of Security Failures and the Political Machine, was released in January 2016.
Dan Bongino Wife
Dan Bongino is married to his wife Paula Andrea Bongino. His wife was born in Colombia (Colombian-American by nationality) and together they have two daughters; Isabel and Ameila.
Dan Bongino Age
Dan is 49 years of age as of 2023, he was born on December 4, 1974, in New York City, U.S. He celebrates his birthdays together with his family and friends every year on December 4.
| Year | 2022 | 2023 |
| Dan Bongino Age | 48 years | 49 years |
Dan Bongino Illness and Health
Bongino was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma on October 16, 2020, his illness can be described as a type of lymphoma in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cells called lymphocytes. He is in near perfect shape as he has been receiving treatment ever since.
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Dan Bongino Media Career
Bongino has worked as a radio host and commentator on both local and national shows. He has appeared as a guest on the Sean Hannity and Mark Levin radio shows, as well as on WMAL-FM in Washington, D.C. and WBAL in Baltimore. Until December 2018, he was a paid contributor to NRATV.
He has been on Fox News’s opinion shows and the website for conspiracy theories, InfoWars, a lot. In December 2018, he appeared as a guest on Hannity’s Fox News show.
Bongino believes in the Spygate conspiracy theory, which says that Barack Obama’s administration illegally spied on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. He has written a book about it called Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump.
In December 2019, Bongino started the Bongino Report website as an alternative to the conservative Drudge Report website. Before the site went live, he told the founder of Drudge Report, Matt Drudge, that he had “abandoned” Trump supporters.
Politico says that Bongino’s Facebook posts in October 2020 were always among the most shared on the site.
The New York Times named Dan Bongino one of the top five election “misinformation superspreaders” in November 2020.
Following the Capitol riots, Bongino’s Twitter account was temporarily deactivated on January 7, 2021, for violating Twitter’s Civic Integrity policy.
Cumulus Media signed Bongino in March 2021 to replace The Rush Limbaugh Show on its own talk radio stations. Bongino’s existing one-hour podcast is already available on Cumulus.
Fox News announced in May that Bongino would host a new weekend show, Unfiltered With Dan Bongino, beginning on June 5.
Between July and August 2021, Bongino hosted Canceled in the USA, a five-part series on cancel culture that aired on Fox News’ streaming service and featured interviews with people who were “canceled” because of their opinions or beliefs.
According to Talkers Magazine’s October 2021 estimates, Bongino’s show has an estimated 8.5 million listeners; it ranked second among the numerous shows competing to succeed Limbaugh, trailing Premiere Networks’ designated successor to Limbaugh, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
