FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino torpedoed his own past commentaries in an interview on his old network, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that he no longer gets “paid for my opinion” but must now rely on evidence and facts.

Bongino was such a prolific trafficker in conspiracy theories that Fox News anchor Bret Baier recently felt the need to confront Trump FBI Director Kash Patel with a clip of one such past comment.

On Wednesday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Hannity, Bongino appeared to dismiss that old Dan Bongino when Hannity pressed him on Jeffrey Epstein, offering up a telling contrast.

“I’m not paid for my opinions anymore,” Bongino said, and added that now, “I’m paid on evidence”:

HANNITY: For those, and I’m — it’s kind of a lightning round because we’re just — I don’t have enough time, unless I gave you the whole hour and it would be worth doing it, but for people like me. I’m one of them. That wants answers to the Epstein file issue and what happened.

BONGINO: Yeah.

HANNITY: And I never knew there were 10,000 hours of tapes and was it suicide? You said there’s a tape or a JFK, RFK, MLK files, all of that is still coming.

BONGINO: Right.

HANNITY: Correct?

BONGINO: Yeah. JFK, we’re done. The FBI’s equities in that, we’ve already released that. RFK, I got to check back on that one. There is more coming.

On the Epstein files, listen, I know this is a hot potato for folks. I totally understand. My comments were clear. I’m not paid for my opinions anymore. I work for the taxpayer now. I’m paid on evidence. That’s it.

The evidence we have in our files clearly indicates that it was, in fact, a suicide. We do have video. It’s not the greatest video in the world. I don’t want to set expectations on fire.

However, the video does show in that specific block that he goes in, made a phone call. You’ll see 12 hours of guards going to basically check on him, come back. You’ll see no one really comes out in that bay, in that area than him. There’s no one in there.

When you combine that with the other evidence where we will be releasing in the coming weeks, we’re still finalizing some of the products, I think it’s pretty clear.

However, as I’ve clearly indicated in some of my tweets on my official account, you know, listen, investigations — if new information surfaces in the future on any of these cases, we’re always open. I’m just telling you there’s nothing there in the file at all that indicates anything other than in fact a suicide.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s Hannity.

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