Chaos at the FBI as Kash Patel and deputy Dan Bongino consider quitting over Epstein files after furious clash with Pam Bondi

President Donald Trump’s FBI head Kash Patel and deputy Dan Bongino are both ready to call it quits if Attorney General Pam Bondi keeps her job after the debacle over releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. 

Bongino, the FBI’s deputy director, made the ultimatum after an epic clash with Bondi on Wednesday over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the Daily Mail can reveal. 

The rift was so bad that Bongino took the day off work on Friday, leading some to think that he had already left his post, Axios first reported.

And now, an insider at the DOJ tells the Daily Mail that Bongino will quit if Bondi doesn’t step down or get fired.

‘I don’t see a scenario where Dan stays if Bondi remains,’ the insider said.

Meanwhile, Patel tells Daily Wire reporter Mary Margaret Olohan that the FBI head ‘also wants Pam Bondi gone, and that he’d consider leaving if Bongino leaves.’

It all stems from an unsigned memo released on Sunday with DOJ and FBI seals that concluded a review of the files resulted in confirmation that Epstein did not get murdered in prison and that none of the available evidence included a so-called ‘client list.’ 

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Mail on Tuesday that Trump is ‘proud’ of Bondi.

‘The continued fixation on sowing division in President Trump’s Cabinet is baseless and unfounded in reality,’ she lamented amid increasing displeasure from the MAGA base over the findings.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino (pictured) will quit if Attorney General Pam Bondi keeps her job, a Justice Department insider told the Daily Mail 

Bongino, before taking his official post at the FBI, touted conspiracy theories that Epstein was murdered in prison and didn’t kill himself like the official medical report concluded.

‘Dan, who didn’t need to be there and simply wanted to serve the President, now finds himself in a precarious position with everything to lose,’ they added. ‘This completely botched release was an attempted forced compliance where the DOJ has all the power.’

The person familiar with the Epstein review said that the DOJ is the body with the ability to decide what gets released – including reviewing any information that comes from the FBI before it goes to the public.

They claim that Bondi’s DOJ might also be ‘stalling’ other investigations like the one probing the origins of COVID-19 and Chinese election interference.

Those close to Bongino and Patel express their frustration at the bureaucratic process.

Bongino and Bondi got into a heated argument Wednesday over the ‘missing minutes’ of footage from the nearly 11 hours of surveillance video released over the weekend of the prison the night Epstein died, Axios reported.

The administration said the video proves that Epstein was not murdered. 

Bondi’s DOJ released over the weekend a memo concluding that a review of the files resulted in no new findings. It confirmed that Epstein did kill himself in prison, there was no ‘client list’ and that the DOJ would not be arresting anyone else in coordination with the crimes

Disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging from his jail cell with sheets on August 10, 2019, he was pronounced dead that day

Authorities claim that every day at midnight the video resets and starts a new recording, which leaves one minute blank for processing time.

But the jump left conspiracy theorists even more wary of the footage, but already was questioned over why there wasn’t a clear view of Epstein’s cell door.

Other critics also pointed to the fact that a large railing hid the man’s face that authorities claimed was the convicted child sex offender going to his cell the night he died.

Ultimately, Trump and Bondi appear ready to move on from the Epstein files. But the American public doesn’t appear too pleased to take the answers they have provided at face-value.

Bongino appears to agree with a growing chorus of right-wing voices calling for answers and demanding Bondi step down over her handling of the Epstein files. 

The AG is facing accusations that she lied, with the online MAGAverse claiming she told Fox News earlier this year that she had Epstein’s list of high-profile clients on her desk ready for review and release. 

This goes against the DOJ and FBI claims now that there is no client list. 

Bondi insists that she was referring to the Epstein files as a whole and not just specifically the client list.