Kash Patel Summarizes Major Successes From “Operation Summer Heat” - Credits Dan Bongino

President Donald Trump was joined by FBI Director Kash Patel in the Oval Office as he read the score on the agency’s successful efforts to combat crime in major cities across the United States.

The U.S. is on track to see a 15-20% decline in the murder rate for 2025 according to data from June, which would make it the lowest murder rate ever recorded (the data goes back to 1960). And those numbers were reported right as the administration was beginning its concentrated crackdown in U.S. cities - such as our murderous capitol, which went over two weeks without a single homicide after the National Guard was deployed. 

Patel revealed that as part of “Operation Summer Heat,” a three month initiative from June-September, nearly 8,700 people accused of violent crimes had been arrested and over 2,200 illegal guns were seized. Additionally, over 421 kilograms of fentanyl were seized during the operation, enough to kill 55 million Americans (and 1900 kilograms to date - enough to kill 127 million). 

Kash published a summary of the accomplishments to his X account below, and credited Deputy Director Dan Bongino as the architect of the operation.  

Patel elsewhere said during an appearance on Real America’s Voice that he’d love to be able to take credit for the operation, but “There's one man who is responsible for Operation Summer Heat, and the architect is Deputy Director Dan Bongino. He drew it up. He put out the mechanics, he went to the field, and he went a hundred percent for these last seven months. And the men and women of the FBI executed Deputy Director Bongino's Summer Heat operation.”

Overall the FBI has arrested over 28,000 violent criminals since Trump began his second term, which is nearly double the amount arrested in the final year of Joe Biden’s administration. Additionally, they’ve “destroyed or severely disrupted” 170 organized criminal organizations, 1,600 of the “most violent gangs,” and confiscated over 6,000 illegal guns. 725 of the individuals wanted for violent crimes were wanted for violent crimes against children.

“If you look at the past four years of the Biden administration, [there were] 16,000, 17,000, 15,000, 15,000 … arrests year over year of violent felons in this country,” Patel said. “You have 28,600 arrests of violent felons in just seven months alone because of your leadership and the dedication of the men and women at the FBI who want to go out there and do the job they were prevented from doing. … This number is historic by every metric.”

And they’re just getting started.