Some notes on the President/Patel press conference (includes other guests) and reporter questions at the end.
LIVE: President Trump Hosts a Press Conference with FBI Director Kash Patel - 10/15/25
FBI Operation Summer Heat (June 24, 2025 - Sept 20, 2025)
President Trump
All 50 states, quiet law enforcement action in major cities like New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis. 250% increase in arrests. Over 700 people arrested for violent crimes against children. Make Memphis Safe Again, like Make D.C. Safe Again, has had a lot of success. Going in to more cities "we're not going to talk about".
Gov officials requested same in SFO.
Going to save Chicago, all of our cities, and make them essentially crime free. Our crime is going to be like normal
OPERATION SUMMER HEAT
Patel, noting FBI work with other agencies
Past 3 months, best response to crime numbers in US history.
8620 Arrests of violent criminals
2200 Firearms seized
7757 Search Operations
567 Children identified
421 kg Fentanyl seized (enough to kill 55 million Americans)
4560 kg Cocaine seized
2081 Indictments
Patel says this would be historic for a 4 year Presidency, but President Trump did this in 7 months (Patel mispoke or signalling from Day 1 focus on removing controlled militas and decapitating street leadership?)
Past 4 years under the AutoPen Administration
Number of Violent Felons Arrested
1600
1700
1500
1500
Under Present Trump PAST 7 Months
28,000 arrests Violent Felons alone arrested
5400 Children have been found
Espionage
50% increase in arrests in Iran and China
30% increase in Russia
Cyber Terrorism
Autopen last year: 191 arrests (rn: approx 16 per month)
President Trump: 252 in the past 7 months. (rn: approx 36 per month)
Street Drugs (fentanyl killing 100,000 Plus of our young people per year)Fentanyl 1900 kg (enough to kill 127 million Americans alone)
Worst of the Worst - FBI 10 must wanted.4 captured in the past 7 months - AutoPen captured 4 in his entire term.
Attorney General and the prosecuters working on these cases know how to make charges stick.
AbbyGate Bomber: Joe had 4 years to capture him. President Trump's administration caught him in in 2 weeks (collaboration between FBI and CIA who went to Pakistan).
13 of our Brave warriors were sensely murdered in the Afghastan withdrawal
Bondi
Bondi says men/women in law enforcement keep telling her that President Trump has taken the handcuffs off them, letting cops be cops.
Will be information forthcoming about work done in Memphis next memphis.
Last night alone, almost 70 arrests
A 70 year old man was arrested for raping a child under the age of 3
Speaker at 2:30:28 mark I don't recognize ( maybe deputy AG Todd Blanche?)
2 Examples of Summer Heat Program impacts ordinary Americans who just want to live a peaceful life.
1. Hotel in the middle of town that was being run as a drug den. Over 1000 calls to 911 over a 4.5 year period (drug deals, murders, violent crimes)
Summer Heat Program went in, arrested them and seized the hotel.
(Wouldnt that asset seizure be a result of Trump's EO? Human trafficking etc.)Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption
2. Large groups selling narcotics (fentanyl) in Washington. Shipping the drugs in commercial planes in suitcases. Flying them south, mostly Arizona
All these arrests mean our streets are safer.
Press starts asking questions at 2:32:45 in the rumble video.
QUESTION: Number of guns taken off the street with prior Felony convictions?
Answer: All guns taken off the street belong to someone not allowed to have them. Could be a felon, could be an illegal, many conditions
Bondi: ATF alone removed 25,000 guns from our streets just sense President Trump took office.
Question: WIll concealed carry laws be applied to DC, example - if you have CC from out of state and you drive to DC?
President Trump: people have wanted this for along time - people feel strongly both ways. His administration is talking about that.
ransomnote: In a way, we have had DNC administrations, and some Repub treasonous administrations who permitted crime (then you need the gov more) at the same time they convinced Americans that there is no need for us to have guns or a Department of war. Personally, I perceive CC in DC from a war footing - we wouldn't want thousands or more traveling to DC as tourists, armed within the walls of the capital. In other words, I view DC as a military asset - a stronghold to be guarded. If it's guarded properly, no need for CC.
Question A: WHy not stop the Venezeulan boats and see what they have onboard?
Trump ANSWer: Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it wasn't effective. They have faster, world class speed boats,
"but they're not faster than missiles".
rn: I HEART PRESIDENT TRUMP!
PResident Trump it never worked when they enforced in a politically correct manner, and said 30% of drugs came into our country via the sea. He thinks now none (or almost none) are coming in on water. He says he doesn't know about fishing industry, a lot of people are deciding not to even go fishing now. (rn: I did wonder about that. You're out on the water catching fish and relaxing, and a missile blows up a speedboat in visual range...)
Trump says we've almost stopped it by sea. Now we'll stop it by land.
Question B: Would you consider strikes on land?
President Trump: "Well I don't want to tell you exactly, but we are certainly looking at land now because we have the sea now very well under control. We've had a couple of days where there wasn't a boat to be found"
SNIP
"Every boat that we knock out, we save 25,000 American lives" He says you lose 3 people but you save 25,0000 of our population
Question: Will crime surge assets come to Boston? Give us a hint about other cities you might include.
Trump: Boston has a bad mayor. Most of them are low IQ. Chicago is a mess. We can take the world cup away from Boston, move them somewhere else, through FIFA, we can talk about the Olympics too.
Question: Conspiracy theories swirling around about assassination of Charlie Kirk, do you have an update for us?
Patel: Reviews what FBI is doing re murder of his friend Charlie Kirk, and says FBI is trading in facts, not conspiracy theories.
Question: Are you on good terms with India, context is oil imports from Russia.
Trump: Modi is a friend, Modi said that about a week ago. We don't want them to keep buying Russian oil. Modi says India will stop. Now we have to get China to stop.
Question: Why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela? And can you share more about the strikes?
Trump: Two reasons. Number one they have emptied their prisons into the United States of AMerica, they came in through the border.
rn: Video lost sound around the 2:41:20 mark. I wonder what the second reason was?
