FBI Director Kash Patel marks one year with record arrests, drug seizures

FBI Director’s First Anniversary Cash BattleA term has arrived. As a badge of honor, Patel is under constant attack by partisan Democrats and other conspiracy theorists – including even some on the right. In contrast to these smears, Patel boldly and decisively led the FBI to where it should be: the world’s premier law enforcement agency.

Patel, after several long days of work ensuring American athletes and dignitaries remained safe at the Olympics in Italy, was called into the hotel locker room. USA Men’s Hockey Team After winning the gold medal over Canada. Since this was the first gold medal for the American men since the Miracle on Ice in 1980, this became a significant moment. Patel rightly allowed himself to bask in the historic moment of American patriotism and pride. The athletes clearly enjoyed the presence of a senior U.S. official (and fellow hockey player), which became even more significant when Patel called President Trump to praise the gold-medal-winning U.S. team.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic skier and the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, during a news conference in Ontario, California, on January 23, 2026. (Mike Blake/Reuters)

Democrats, who are quicker to defend the Democratic US Senator Splitting a margarita with an alleged illegal immigrant who is a human trafficker and a wife beater From a senior US government official celebrating an American gold medal with US Olympic athletes, Patel was predictably attacked for his appearance in the locker room after the game. To anyone with a pulse, it is clear that many of today’s Democrats are nothing more than appalling, anti-American losers. It’s hard to imagine anything less than a top American official being ousted for celebrating the United States’ iconic victory at the Olympics.

In response to Patel’s (and America’s) haters, this is a good time to educate America about the unprecedented success that Trump’s FBI Director Cash Patel has had in his first year.

On September 10, 2025, degenerate The assassination of Charlie Kirk. Thousands of Americans attended the event on the University of Utah campus. The FBI took over under Patel’s leadership. Within two days, law enforcement arrested a 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. His father turned Robinson in after FBI Battle broadcast images drawn from several video surveillance sources to the public. Robinson now awaits the swift justice he so richly deserves. Despite the ravings of online conspiracy instigators, there are almost no unanswered questions in Kirk’s case, thanks to Patel’s quick and decisive leadership.

Tyler Robinson, accused of killing Charlie Kirk, appears during a hearing in 4th District Court in Provo, Utah, Thursday, December 11, 2025. (Rick Egan/Salt Lake Tribune via Pool)

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has become the main culprit in the mass importation of illicit drugs into the United States. Last month, the FBI – with the help of military special forces –Maduro and his companions are arrested His wife in their fortress in Caracas. American forces quickly surrounded the Maduro family and drove them out of Venezuela without any American casualties. They are now sitting in a Brooklyn jail. They faced a 2020 federal indictment but remained free throughout the trial Biden administration. This operation adds to Patel’s record, which includes more than 2,100 kilograms of fentanyl confiscated (an increase of 31%), which is enough to kill 150 million Americans and disrupt 1,800 gangs and criminal enterprises, an increase of 210% year-on-year.

The FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list represents the worst in terms of fugitives. Murderers, child molesters, drug lords and terrorists make up most of its population. Under Patel’s leadership, six of the ten most wanted have now been captured and have been on the run collectively for more than 50 years, exceeding in one year all such captures during the Biden administration (four in four years). Drug dealers He loves Ryan Wedding, former The Canadian Olympian who made the list got a lot of media attention when he was arrested, but other Barbarians are off the streets thanks to Patel’s leadership.

FBI Director Kash Patel: We’ve made America safer in just one year

Just last month, The role of Alejandro Rosales Castillo He came to face justice. This coward hid in Mexico for nearly a decade after killing a 23-year-old co-worker in Charlotte, North Carolina. Cindy Rodriguez Singh, another monster, met the same fate. Singh allegedly killed her 5-year-old child and fled to India. Thanks to Patel’s FBI, she was arrested in New Delhi less than two months after being added to the list. Overall, arrests under Patel’s FBI rose 197% year over year, and more than 6,000 child victims were located, an increase of 22% year over year. Dedicated “crimes against children” operations such as Restore Justice, Enduring Justice and Relentless Justice have led to the arrest of 730 people and the identification of more than 450 victims.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Delcy Rodriguez attend Maduro’s swearing-in ceremony for a second term in Congress in Caracas on May 24, 2018. (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images)

For years, domestic terrorists who make up Antifa have wreaked havoc in American cities. On July 4, 2025, twenty of them allegedly attacked the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE detention facility in Prairieland County. Alvarado, Texas. Domestic terrorists allegedly opened fire on ICE agents, and the responding police officer nearly lost his life after one of the terrorists shot him in the neck.

It is important to remember what the FBI has deteriorated into during the Biden administration. Biden’s Justice Department wasted massive FBI resources for years pursuing every individual who took a selfie at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, even if the individuals did not act violently. Other FBI resources went toward investigating parents at school board meetings and mass attendance by Catholics over supposed concerns where parents and religious Catholics were becoming domestic terrorists.

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Biden’s special advisor, Jack Smith, spent more than $50 million in an ultimately failed attempt to imprison President Trump. Prosecutors use law enforcement to conduct investigations, and the FBI was at Smith’s disposal. Even before Smith arrived in November 2022, the FBI raided President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on orders from Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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The FBI was no longer wasting its resources. Under Patel’s leadership, agents are not targeting pro-life Christians; They’re picking up Foreign drug traffickers and drug terrorist leaders. Agents do not investigate parents at school board meetings; They are bringing to justice the parents who killed their children. Agents don’t waste years on January 6th; They spend time bringing violent domestic Antifa terrorists to justice and catching killers like Tyler Robinson in short order. The agents are not involved in Jack Smith’s witch hunt; They are investigating the perpetrators of the unprecedented law war that ended the Obama-Biden Republic.

Special operations and surprise initiatives, such as “Summer Heat,” have resulted in nearly 9,000 arrests in just three months, while more than 450 human traffickers have been identified (an increase of 23% year-on-year), and espionage arrests have risen by 35% year-on-year. Patel led a rapid transformation of the FBI from a declining, militarized agency to one that Americans respected growing up. For this, Patel deserves enormous praise.

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