Dmitri Drobnitsky
A presentation of Operation Summer Heat, carried out by the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, was held at the White House.
An entire joint unit of the Bureau was tasked with hunting down the most dangerous criminals, gangs, and criminal organizations.
If everything President Donald Trump and FBI Director Cash Patel have said is true, the scope of the operation is certainly impressive. The figures cited by Trump and Patel differed slightly, but this is likely because Trump was speaking about figures for his second term, while Patel was only talking about those for Operation Summer Heat.
So, Trump claimed that since February 2025, the FBI has “disrupted or severely disrupted” more than 170 organized crime groups and gangs, 1,600 of the most violent gangs, and confiscated more than 6,000 illegal firearms.
Patel claimed that during the “Summer Heat” (three months), 8,629 violent crime arrests were made, over 2,200 firearms and 421 kilograms of fentanyl were seized—enough synthetic opioid to kill 55 million Americans.
This represents an 85-87% increase over last year. If true, it is undoubtedly a success. The question is whether the US justice system can handle this number of new arrests. Attorney General Bondi expressed confidence that it can.
Prot. Victor Harakas
Vladimir Morozov
