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🇺🇸 Trump Reveals Results of Crime Crackdown

🇺🇸 Trump Reveals Results of Crime Crackdown

October 16, 2025

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President Donald Trump revealed Wednesday that he personally authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela, marking a dramatic expansion of his administration’s campaign against drug cartels and human smuggling networks across Latin America.

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said Venezuela’s socialist regime had “felt the heat” as U.S. forces and intelligence units move to choke off the flow of narcotics and migrants heading north.

The move follows a string of U.S. military strikes on suspected cartel boats off Venezuela’s coast — actions Trump says “should have been done decades ago.”

Meanwhile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado praised Trump’s resolve as Nicolás Maduro lashed out, calling the order “aggression and harassment.”

There’s much more Trump news for you below!

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In today’s email:
🔔 Trump Reveals Results of Crime Crackdown
💰 Trump Withholds $40M from California
💬 Trump Condemns Support of Virginia AG Candidate
✈️ Trump Authorizes CIA Operations in Venezuela
🏛 Trump Orders Pentagon to Pay Troops During Shutdown

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President Trump addressed the nation alongside FBI Director Kash Patel to deliver an update on the administration's historic crime crackdown that has swept across every corner of America. While Trump brings peace to nations around the world, he has made protecting American citizens from the epidemic of violence in our major cities a core mission of his presidency. As blue cities continue to shield criminals and illegal immigrants from accountability, Trump and Patel made it unmistakably clear that America will no longer tolerate those who threaten our country and endanger the lives of innocent citizens.

Trump has authorized the CIA to take direct action in Venezuela to confront the cartel smuggling operations and the complicity of President Maduro in facilitating these criminal enterprises. Through these bold and unprecedented actions, Trump is once again proving that he is serious about restoring America to its foundational greatness. Protecting our borders, cleaning up our streets, and bringing industry back home are not just items on an agenda, they are promises being fulfilled with action where previous administrations failed.

Check out all the latest developments and more below!

💰 Trump Withholds $40M from California Over Trucker Safety Rules
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the Trump administration will withhold $40 million from California over the state's refusal to enforce English language proficiency requirements for commercial truck drivers. California is the only state in the nation that refuses to ensure big rig drivers can read road signs and communicate with law enforcement, which Duffy called a fundamental safety issue impacting families on America's roads. The action came weeks after an illegal immigrant truck driver, Harjinder Singh, killed three people after making an illegal U-turn in Florida, though these English proficiency rules predate the crash. Singh failed an English proficiency test but was still issued a commercial driver's license by California, and he is now being held without bond on three counts of vehicular homicide and immigration violations. To have the funding reinstated, California must enforce the English rules and ensure that state inspectors test truck drivers' English skills during roadside inspections and remove anyone from the road who fails.

💬 Trump Condemns Democrats Supporting Virginia AG Candidate
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance separately slammed Democrats who continue to back Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones despite texts surfacing in which he fantasized about murdering a Republican lawmaker and his children. Jones sent messages claiming he would shoot former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert over Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler, yet Democratic leaders have not demanded he drop out of the race. Trump spoke during a ceremony honoring Charlie Kirk, stating that a candidate for attorney general in Virginia boasted he would want to see a Republican legislator shot in the head and his children murdered, yet continues to run for office with most Democrats backing him. Vance pushed back against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's demand that Republicans condemn a separate controversy, refusing to join what he called pearl clutching when Democrats remain silent on Jones' violent rhetoric. Trump emphasized that especially in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination by a left-wing extremist, America must have absolutely no tolerance for radical left violence, extremism, and terror.

✈️ Trump Authorizes CIA Operations in Venezuela
President Trump publicly confirmed that he has authorized CIA activity in Venezuela, citing two key reasons for the intelligence operations during his Wednesday press conference alongside FBI Director Kash Patel. Trump stated that Venezuela emptied thousands of prisoners, people from mental institutions, and insane asylums into the United States through the open border, making them the worst abuser among countries that dumped criminals into America. The president also pointed to drugs flowing into the United States from Venezuela as the second justification for authorizing the CIA operations in the South American nation. Trump declined to answer when pressed by reporters on whether the CIA would have authority to take out Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, calling it a ridiculous question for him to answer publicly. The authorization follows the administration's designation of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and comes after at least five fatal U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean since September.

🏛 Trump Orders Pentagon to Pay Troops During Shutdown
President Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum-8 directing the Department of War to continue paying U.S. troops despite the ongoing government shutdown after Congress failed to reach a funding deal for weeks. The White House stated the move is necessary to protect military readiness as the budget standoff stretched into its third week, with Trump citing his Article II powers as commander-in-chief to issue the order. The directive covers active-duty troops and reservists on service orders, instructing officials to use only funds legally tied to military pay in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget. More than one million service members were expected to miss paychecks starting this week if Congress did not act, making Trump's intervention a break from past administrations that typically waited for bipartisan deals. The Pentagon has identified roughly $8 billion in unobligated defense funds as potential options to fulfill the payment directive.

President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel held a news conference on Wednesday to announce new crime data.

🔔 Trump Reveals Results of Crime Crackdown 🔔

President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the FBI has arrested 28,859 violent criminals so far in 2025, putting the bureau on pace to more than double the 15,388 arrests made during the final year of the Biden administration. The FBI has destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and 1,600 of the most violent gangs while confiscating over 6,000 illegal firearms and tracking down four fugitives on the most wanted list, including two who held the top spots.

Trump touted the success of Operation Summer Heat, a national crime crackdown that ran from June to September across all 50 states, which resulted in 8,629 violent crime arrests, the seizure of 2,281 firearms, 421 kilograms of fentanyl, and 44,569 kilograms of cocaine. Patel emphasized that the fentanyl seized during Operation Summer Heat alone was enough to kill 55 million Americans, and the operation produced 2,081 indictments in just three months.

Trump revealed that San Francisco will be the next major city targeted for federal intervention, stating he has received requests from government officials to bring federal resources to what he called "a mess" that was once one of America's great cities a decade ago. The president also announced plans for a federal surge in Chicago, where the FBI has already conducted five months of preparatory work to bring down crime numbers in the violent city. Memphis has already seen the deployment of federal law enforcement officers, including the FBI, ATF, and Homeland Security Investigations, alongside the Tennessee National Guard in response to the city recording 161 homicides this year and holding the nation's highest violent crime rate.

The president pointed out that Memphis' homicide rate exceeds those of Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., and is approximately four times higher than Mexico City and 27 times higher than Havana. The president signed a memorandum deploying federal forces to Memphis after data revealed the city experienced 1,250 violent crime incidents per 50,000 people last year, more than doubling Nashville's average and quadrupling the state average.

Patel credited Trump for allowing good cops to be cops and partnering law enforcement with the right people at the Department of Justice to secure arrests, indictments, and prison sentences for violent criminals. Attorney General Pam Bondi echoed these sentiments during the Oval Office press conference, stating that Trump has taken the handcuffs off law enforcement and empowered them to do their jobs effectively.

The FBI has also located 5,400 missing children since January, representing a 30% increase over the previous administration, while gang arrests have surged by 210% in just seven months. Trump emphasized that every American deserves to live in a community where they are not afraid of being mugged, murdered, robbed, raped, assaulted, or shot.

In just seven months, the Trump administration has delivered what Patel called the best numbers for fighting crime in United States history, and Trump made clear this is only the beginning of his mission to restore law and order to American cities.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a declaration to proclaim a state of emergency over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting illegal aliens in the sanctuary jurisdiction.

🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟

🔥 The White House revealed that 49 criminal illegal migrants who received Medicaid under previous policies have all been arrested and deported under the Trump administration, with charges including murder, assault, rape, and sexual abuse of a minor. Republicans argue that more than one million illegal aliens received Medicaid under the program that existed before Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act revised federal controls. Senate Democrats have shut down the government for more than two weeks while pushing to reinstate the Medicaid policy that allowed illegal immigrants to receive healthcare benefits at American taxpayers' expense.

⚖️ A federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the Trump administration from issuing reduction in force notices to federal employees during the government shutdown, granting a restraining order requested by labor unions. Judge Susan Illston claimed the administration's actions were illegal and in excess of authority, stating that the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management took advantage of the spending lapse to assume laws did not apply to them. More than 4,000 government workers had already received reduction in force notices before the judge's order halted further layoffs.

🗳️ The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared poised to significantly weaken a key Voting Rights Act provision that prohibits states from diluting the power of minority voters during arguments over Louisiana's congressional map. Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other conservative justices appeared open to the idea that Congress may have intended a sunset period for Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, allowing it to weaken over time. A ruling in favor of Louisiana could swing an estimated 12 Democratic-held House districts in favor of Republican candidates according to a report from Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter Fund.

💬 President Trump criticized left-wing violence during the ceremony posthumously honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, stating that far-left radicals resort to desperate acts of violence and terror because their ideas and arguments persuade no one. Trump declared that radical leftists have the devil's ideology and emphasized that especially following Kirk's assassination last month, the nation must have absolutely no tolerance for radical left violence, extremism, and terror. The ceremony was held on what would have been Kirk's 32nd birthday, with Trump describing him as a true American hero.

🔥 President Trump announced he is next looking at land operations in Latin America after the U.S. military conducted at least five fatal strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean since September. Trump stated that the sea is now very well under control, with recent days showing no boats to be found, and dismissed the idea of simply stopping the boats because that approach has been totally ineffective for 30 years. The president noted that while drug traffickers have world-class speedboats, they are not faster than missiles, and confirmed that vessels loaded with drugs are fair game for military strikes.

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