Bongino blasts media for downplaying Trump administration crime drop

Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino took on the mainstream media, accusing many retailers of downplaying a historic decline in violent crime below the Trump administration.

Bongino stated the FBI has dramatically elevated the variety of arrests of violent criminals, seized file quantities of medicine and captured a number of fugitives from the FBI’s most wished listing. He stated these achievements are being downplayed by the media.

“The homicide charge is the bottom since 1900,” Bongino stated Thursday on the TV sequence “Hannity.”

“By definition, there isn’t any trendy precedent for that.”

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Then-Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino will maintain a press convention on the Division of Justice on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Pictures)

Bongino left the FBI earlier this month after serving as deputy director. He defined that the position was meant as a roughly year-long effort to reorganize the company and refocus its priorities.

Thursday is the The Criminal Justice Council has released a report analyzing crime statistics from 40 main cities, discovering that 11 out of 13 crime classes decreased in 2025 in comparison with the earlier yr. It additionally famous that violent crime general has fallen to its lowest stage since 2019.

The report famous a “excessive chance that when the FBI reviews nationwide information for jurisdictions of all sizes later this yr, the murder charge in 2025 might be the bottom ever,” citing information courting again to 1900.

Homicide charge falls to lowest stage since 1900 in main US cities throughout the nation

Bongino accused media retailers akin to Axios and The New York Occasions of acknowledging the decline in crime whereas downplaying the position of the Trump administration. He stated Axios acknowledged the low murder charge however “apologized” for not crediting President Donald Trump.

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“There are a thousand excuses why President Trump and his administration did not do it. In the meantime, I lived it. I do know what we did and what we did not do,” Bongino stated.

The Axios article, revealed on January 22, notes that violent crimes and homicides have decreased. It additionally says that crime “had already fallen to its lowest stage in twenty years in Biden’s closing yr, elevating questions on whether or not Trump’s insurance policies have had an influence.”

Bongino additionally criticized a New York Occasions headline that quoted dozens of present and former staff claiming that FBI Director Kash Patel is “making America much less secure.”

Then-FBI Assistant Director Dan Bongino, left, joined by Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi, heart, and FBI Director Kash Patel, proper, speaks throughout a information convention concerning the arrest of a suspect within the January 6 pipe bomber case on the Division of Justice in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)

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“Do you dipwads even learn your individual headlines?” he stated of the Occasions, including that he’s “so bored with these idiots.”

Bongino dismissed the criticism as coming from media figures he stated lacked credibility, describing them as “individuals who have by no means worn a badge a day.”