Bongino: The Inspiration behind Sandy Hook Promise and a Deluge of Government Contracts

This year I scaled back my online media appearances in response to vicious attacks from “Maverick Artist” Victor Hugo Vaca who doxxed me, posted personal emails in which statements were taking out of context, rewritten, etc. to slander and embarrass me and defame other people.

During this campaign, my book sales, which were pretty consistent, trickled down to nothing, and my Substack subscriptions collapsed. Within a month, GiveSendGo terminated a campaign I established to support my independent journalism on grounds on grounds that I wasn't earning enough money on its platform to warrant their support.

Incidentally, Vaca is runing two campaigns on GiveSendGo – the first of which did not receive any donations for what appears to be years; the second began picking up steam with Vaca's foray into anti-semitism. GSG has not discontinued either.

Vaca personifies the “free speech absolutism” championed by Bit Chute and Rumble. In lieu of actual free speech, free speech absolutism amounts to weaponizing speech on behalf of political and personal agendas to silence voices through Saul Alinsky-tactics.

I entered the Vaca fray in defense of Prof. Jim Fetzer, a friend in independent media who was among the first to offer me a platform to discuss my books and invite me to appear on his shows as a regular commentator when I was just dipping my toes into independent media.

Fetzer was always a gentleman and gracious host. Even though I didn't follow his research on “conspiracies,” I never questioned his kindness or integrity. Through my research, I explored real politk and tracked the influence of money on the political process.

I appeared on Vaca's show, having been invited under false pretenses, and as a good faith effort to share the stage with Leader Technologies founder Michael McKibben whose research overlapped with mine. Vaca was not an honest broker, and my experience with him, was “chilling,” to say the l east.

Nevertheless when I witnessed Vaca attacking 84-year-old Jim Fetzer, I felt compelled to step in to defend my friend since the attacks were so abusive, sadistic, and unrelenting. In response to my private appeal to Vaca to restore peace with Fetzer, Vaca turned on me, informing me that I had made myself “fair game” by defending Fetzer and that he would henceforth do and say as he wished against me as payback.

These attacks have been ongoing for seven months now in which Vaca has sought to discredit Fetzer over his Sandy Hook coverage. Fetzer apparently has generated sufficient controvery over his reporting that on event billed as the “bloodiest school shooting” in American history. As Fetzer demonstrated in his book, Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, the shooting was a FEMA drill.

As part of a campaign to discredit Fetzer and silence his voice, Vaca attacked Fetzer and his colleagues relentlessly across Bit Chute and Rumble, associating them with venereal diseases, accusing them of pedophilia, bestiality, incest, homosexuality – and of non-sex related crimes to destroy their professional reputations and discredit their work.

He didn't just offer degenerate opinion but post multiple videos a day for days, weeks, and months on end, with no sign of relenting.

In exasperation, Fetzer filed a cease and desist order against Bit Chute and Rumble since both platforms were violating their own contracts by not enforcing their terms for unlawful speech.

Examining the reasons for their lack of enforcement led us to discovery a financial and political overlap with Sandy Hook Promise. The discoveries were included in an affidavit for declaratory judgment Fetzer filed with the court against Bit Chute and Rumble on July 1, 2025.

Ten days later Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, a leading investor in Rumble, did not report to work, fueling speculation he had quit. He was soon back in his office, though his future at the agency remains certain. The official narrative is that he fell out with Attorney General Pam Bondi over disclosures pertaining to Jeffrey Esptein, but Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel were united behind the Trump Administration's position that “there is nothing to see here.”