The FBI arrested 62% of “violent offenders” in the first four months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 after President Donald Trump took office, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Thursday.
Trump’s FBI has arrested 14,000 suspected violent suspects, including cartel leaders, child predators and anti-abolition assaulters, Bongino announced Thursday. xPost. The previous conservative media host celebrated numbers indicating a return to proper FBI priorities after the Biden administration launched frequently politically charged criminal probes. (Related: Biden FBI’s “traditional” Catholic targeting was greater than previously thought, Docs shows)
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As the director and I close out the first few months in our role, I would like to provide another update on our efforts to reform the FBI and corner bad actors.
Some of these action items you may have already read, some of which you may not have.-we…
– Dan Bongino (@fbiddbongino) June 26, 2025
“We’re focusing on our mission to crush violent crime and make your neighborhood significantly safer. This is not a victory lap, Bongino highlighted. Initial data It shows Possibility Record homicide rates in the US in 2025.
Among the “bad actors,” Bongino said, the station arrested had more than 825 child predators and 140 human traffickers. Trump’s FBI also highlights new threats to children from the Satanist Child Predator Network known as “764,” with over 250 surveys open as of May.
“If you’re preying on our children, we’re here for you,” Bongino said. “It’s only a matter of time.”
The deputy director said the department is also “pouring data” to catch violent people who have caught violent turmoil in Los Angeles and other cities starting June 6th in response to the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) attack. Bongino said more than 700 mobs have been arrested due to cooperation between the FBI and federal and state agencies.
The FBI’s National Press Office did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Bongino and FBI director Kash Patel took the reins at the FBI with the mission to end the weaponization of federal law enforcement under former President Joe Biden.
The Biden FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigated “radical traditionalist” Catholics, arrested pro-life protesters while failing to catch abortion firefighters, charged doctors who leaked records about hospital resex procedures, and jailed Trump supporters to jail members who were joking about the 2016 presidential election.
Meanwhile, the FBI and DOJ allowed the tax crime restrictions law to expire for his eldest son, Hunter Biden, and obstructed a criminal investigation into him, federal officials revealed in a series of disclosures to Congress. Hunter Biden was ultimately convicted Tax And the gun charges were not that his father’s administration didn’t offer him a failed plea deal that led to him vaccinating him from future accusations.
Following the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, the FBI has changed its own definition of “anti-government, anti-author violent extremism,” including “political and/or social agendas,” including Trump supporters who have overwhelmingly targeted supporters of terrorism in the country. Newsweek reported October 2023.
Several FBI agents are said to have testified to Congress about political corruption. Steve’s friend resigned, saying he was the FBI. I took him off A child exploitation case to investigate protesters on January 6th and use unnecessary SWAT team attacks against them.
“We have made numerous personnel and structural changes to the FBI leadership to ensure that we do not repeat past mistakes. These changes will continue,” Bongino said Thursday. “And as a reminder, there’s something we can’t discuss publicly. That doesn’t mean they’re not happening.”
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