FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino:
‘Trump’s Crime Crackdown Is Paying Off’
AG Staff, American Greatness
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is touting the the number of violent criminals arrested so far this year by the FBI, noting that the 28,000 arrests are nearly double the yearly average under Biden.
Bongino told Fox News that, over the past 3 or 4 years, the FBI would average 15,000 to 16,000 arrests of violent criminals but noted that this year’s arrests are nearly double, saying, “We’ve made 28,000 violent crime arrests in 2025, and the year’s not even over.”
Bongino explained that, “It shows that when you get a president, an attorney general, a deputy attorney general and an FBI leadership team that lets the FBI do FBI work, instead of getting into other nonsense like in the past. Look what happens. Your cities get cleaner.”
The FBI crackdown under the current administration has resulted in the arrest of over 28,000 violent criminals, the seizure of more than 6,000 illegal weapons and the capture of more than 1,700 child predators and 300 human traffickers since Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
President Trump has been vocal in his support what he calls the “historic results” of federal law enforcement efforts to bring “law and order back to America”
The FBI’s Summer Heat operation, which took place June 24 through September 20, resulted in 8,629 arrests, 2,281 firearms seized, 557 children identified, 7,757 search operations and 2,081 criminal indictments.
Summer Heat is also credited with taking more than 421 kg of fentanyl off the streets and the seizure of 44,569 kg of cocaine.
The Trump administration has also celebrated more than 25,000 immigration-related detentions targeting violent gangs like MS-13 and Tren De Aragua.
Bongino also expressed admiration for Trump’s “zero tolerance” for crime, saying, “He drives around Washington, D.C., on these off the record movements. He sees homelessness, crime, he can’t stand it. He says, ‘What do we got to do to fix this?’ And we basically lay out a bunch of things, and his answer is very simple. [The] President’s like, ‘Go get ‘em, boys. Go get them.’ That was it. Like, you do what you have to do.”
