Dan Bongino speaks during Politicon 2018 in Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump has tapped yet another conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist for a big job in his administration.

Dan Bongino, a former US Secret Service agent who later hosted a Fox News show and pilots a popular right-wing podcast, will be deputy director of the FBI despite having no leadership experience at the department. His appointment doesn’t require a Senate confirmation.

Bongino, who unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 2012, is a major promoter of some of Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and Covid. He’s also a “significant shareholder” in the right-wing video platform Rumble, the company said.

Here are some of the biggest whoppers he’s spread.

He’s a superspreader of 2020 election lies

Researchers haveidentified Bongino as one of the most effective spreaders of misinformation around the 2020 election, noting he spent hours of his podcast and posted widely shared videos on social media promoting debunked claims about ballot harvesting and suspicious votes.

“The FBI and the CIA, members of it, unquestionably tried to rig both the 2016 and 2020 election,” he once told his listeners.

Bongino, who has nearly 6 million followers on Facebook, had over 7.7 million interactions on Facebook the week of the 2020 election, The New York Times found at the time.

Last May, he warned his listeners that they should still be leery of Democrats........

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