{"id":8954,"date":"2026-01-18T00:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8954"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:38:23","slug":"former-secret-service-agent-and-commentator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8954","title":{"rendered":"Former Secret Service agent and commentator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Bongino\u2019s alarm lands differently because it comes from someone trained to imagine the worst,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<div id=\"trendusa1.com_responsive_1\" data-google-query-id=\"CPWIy6jsk5IDFb78DQkdDh8G2A\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23207117756\/trendusa1.com\/trendusa1.com_responsive_1_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>then spend his life preventing it. He sees a former president sitting at the crossroads of foreign vengeance,<\/p>\n<p>domestic radicalization, and an increasingly reckless political culture that treats elimination as a punchline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p>When threats converge like this, professionals stop talking about probabilities and<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"trendusa1.com_responsive_3\" data-google-query-id=\"CKOl7ajsk5IDFSzaDQkdhLcKhg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23207117756\/trendusa1.com\/trendusa1.com_responsive_3_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>start talking about inevitabilities\u2014unless something changes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>His most disturbing fear is not only that Trump is targeted,<\/p>\n<p>but that the shield around him might be subtly thinned by politics,<\/p>\n<p>optics, or quiet resentment. That possibility should terrify even Trump\u2019s fiercest critics.<\/p>\n<p>If protection becomes partisan, every future leader inherits that fragility.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t about liking or hating one man.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about whether a country still believes its institutions must<\/p>\n<p>stand above the blood sport it has turned its politics into<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8955\" src=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1829-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1829-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1829-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1829-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1829.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Bongino\u2019s 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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8956,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/8956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}