Mr. Bongino, who spent nine months at the agency, spoke freely about the Epstein files and more as he returned to the land of “sound bites.”

President Donald Trump suggested that his party should seize control of elections in ‘at least 15 places’ and brazenly repeated a number of blatant lies about his electoral history in Minnesota and Georgia during a Monday phone interview with a right-wing podcaster who briefly served in a top FBI role last year.