Conservative commentator Dan Bongino, a former NYPD officer and Secret Service agent, has for years railed against the FBI and its perceived abuses of power.

“The FBI is lost,” he said on Fox News in 2022. “It’s broken. Irredeemably corrupt at this point.”

Now he'll have a chance to change things from the inside as the FBI’s new deputy director, its second-highest ranking position. President Donald Trump announced the appointment Sunday night on Truth Social.

The deputy director position has traditionally been held by a career FBI agent. Bongino has never worked at the agency; his primary qualification, like that of new FBI director Kash Patel, appears to be a fierce loyalty to Trump.

After the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022 seeking classified documents, Bongino called for the agents involved to be fired. “Fire anyone involved in the raid,” he said. “I don’t want to hear any more ‘rank-and-file’ stuff. I was the rank and file.”

“If you played any role in this raid, you should be gone,” he said. “It’s time to clean house. And yes, I’m saying it.”

Bongino spent his formative years in the Queens neighborhood of Glendale, attending Archbishop Molloy High School and Queens College, then serving two years as an NYPD officer in the late 90s, an experience he frequently cites.

“The 75 Precinct, which was East New York, Brooklyn, was very busy,” he told an audience in 2013. “There was a drug war going on.”

Bongino then spent 12 years in the Secret Service, including on the presidential detail, before trying his hand at politics. After three unsuccessful runs for Congress in Maryland and Florida, he turned to commentary — eventually rocketing to right-wing stardom as a radio, TV and podcast host.

At times, he opined on political controversies in his old hometown. “A lot of people who know Eric Adams know,” he said on Fox News during an appearance in 2022. “Politics first, public safety second for Eric Adams.”

Bongino has promoted baseless conspiracy theories, including about fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Along the way he caught the attention of Trump, who has now given him broad authority over an agency he has long maligned.

“He understands the depth of the corruption at these institutions, which the American people reelected President Trump to shake up,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday.

“We’re going to reestablish faith in this institution,” Bongino told his podcast listeners Monday. “The good people there, doing their job, hitting the streets, developing sources — we’ll have your back.”