Kash Patel: The FBI and President Trump Are "Flipping The Script"

Real Clear Politics ^ | e October 17, 2025 | Ian Schwartz

[E. Pluribus Unum]

FBI Director Kash Patel joins FOX Business Network's "Kudlow" to discuss Operation Summer Heat, the number of arrests under the Trump administration, a federal grand jury indicting alleged Antifa members, and FBI staff being paid during the shutdown.

LARRY KUDLOW, FOX BUSINESS: Director Kash Patel, hats off to you, Kash. You've done a great job. The way I read it, you've depoliticized it, you've de-weaponized it, people are going back to work, and these numbers, we're going to put it on the full screen, the FBI, Summer Heat, and all crushing of violent crime, you've just done this in only a few months.

It's remarkable. And I think it's just what the public wanted, Kash.

FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL: You're absolutely right, Larry. It's great to be with you. Deputy Director Bongino and I launched the juggernaut that you just advertised as Operation Summer Heat.

And here's the good news, Larry. That was just three months from June to September. Those numbers that you attributed out were just three months of arrests.

The total number of arrests year-to-date this year by the FBI of violent offenders is 28,000. Just to put that in perspective, that's double the amount of violent offenders the Biden administration arrested in the same time period last year alone. And just to put something else in more perspective, the fentanyl that you cited in a three-month surge under Operation Summer Heat, 450 kilograms, is only a third of the fentanyl seized during the entirety of this year, some 1,900 kilograms, enough to kill 125 million Americans.

Larry, that's an increase of 31 percent in fentanyl seizures year-to-date during the Donald Trump administration versus Joe Biden...

[Craftmore]

Im calling bs on the drug busts every bust claims would kill 100 million. How is anyone still alive ? My local tweaker says its barely enough for a friday night party