{"id":14949,"date":"2026-03-14T17:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=14949"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:42:14","slug":"ex-secret-service-agent-dan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=14949","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Secret Service Agent Dan B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Secret Service agent <strong>Dan Bongino<\/strong> has raised concerns about t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he safety of former president <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, warning that several risks are converging at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bongino, who protected presidents from both parties for over a decade,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>said his concerns come from professional threat assessment, not politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pointed to four main dangers: foreign adversaries, radicalized domestic extremists,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hostility within parts of the federal bureaucracy, and a security culture influenced by politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bongino, these overlapping pressures create <strong>\u201can unprecedented environment of potential danger.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign threats remain significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran still seeks retaliation over the 2020 strike on Qassem Soleimani, while China has strategic reasons to oppose Trump\u2019s potential return to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even a single determined attacker exploiting security weaknesses could cause serious harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bongino also warned that heated rhetoric in U.S. politics can fuel radicalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, repeated hostile messaging may encourage lone-wolf attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further cautioned against <strong>\u201cpoliticized protection,\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>stressing that security decisions must be based on real threats, not partisan tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bongino concluded that protecting leaders requires objective judgment to avoid the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tragic consequences history has shown when warnings are ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino has raised concerns about t he safety of former president Donald Trump, warning that several risks are converging at once. Bongino, who protected presidents from both parties for over a decade, said his concerns come from professional threat assessment, not politics. He pointed to four main dangers: foreign adversaries,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14951,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions\/14951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}