Former Secret Service agent and commentator

Dan Bongino’s alarm lands differently because it comes from someone trained to imagine the worst,

then spend his life preventing it. He sees a former president sitting at the crossroads of foreign vengeance,

domestic radicalization, and an increasingly reckless political culture that treats elimination as a punchline.

When threats converge like this, professionals stop talking about probabilities and

start talking about inevitabilities—unless something changes.

His most disturbing fear is not only that Trump is targeted,

but that the shield around him might be subtly thinned by politics,

optics, or quiet resentment. That possibility should terrify even Trump’s fiercest critics.

If protection becomes partisan, every future leader inherits that fragility.

This isn’t about liking or hating one man.

It’s about whether a country still believes its institutions must

stand above the blood sport it has turned its politics into