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Donald Trump: “Took out 1,700 people, got them out. These are career…”

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President Trump Participates in a Press Conference with the Director of the FBI

Published October 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:16

It was very good. And within 30 days, it's been as safe as any city in the country. It's been Great. Took out 1,700 people, got them out. These are career criminals in many cases. and people that shouldn't have been allowed in by the Biden administration. Historically, the summer months have been a time when violent crime soar, as you know, but not under President Trump. (01:16–01:22)

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“Every boat that we knock out, we save 25,000 American lives.”
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“Russia has lost a million and a half people, soldiers mostly.”
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“They have emptied their prisons into the United States of America.”
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“We've got the strongest border of anybody. Nobody has a border. We have a border where the numbers just came out again. You saw zero people…”
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“We shot down thousands of drones and missiles also going into Israel.”
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“We just ordered about 20 brand new B2 bombers.”
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“We made one of the great deals with Europe. $650 billion they pay us, and we've evened it out.”
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“South Korea, $350 billion up front. Japan, $650 billion. And they've all agreed to it.”
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“We celebrated a historic agreement to end years of suffering and conflict [in the Middle East].”
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“Within 30 days, [Washington, D.C.] has been as safe as any city in the country.”
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“The FBI arrested over 8,000 violent criminals during the course of this period.”
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“In major cities like in New Orleans, Nashville, we saw a 250% increase in arrests.”
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“Since the start of the administration, the FBI has arrested over 23,000 violent criminals.”
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“The FBI has also destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and gangs.”
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“Confiscated over 6,000 illegal firearms.”
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“Tracked down and arrested four fugitives on the most wanted list.”
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“Chicago recently had one deal where they had 11 murders in one weekend.”
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“I'm going to be strongly recommending, at the request of government officials, that you start looking at San Francisco.”
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“Every American deserves to live in a community where they're not afraid of being mugged, murdered, robbed, raped, assaulted or shot.”
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“We're going to Save Chicago.”
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“We're going to save all of our cities and we're going to make them essentially crime free like other countries have crime free.”
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“Our crime in certain cities is worse than anything they can even imagine.”
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“Boston, she's got four areas that are, you know, wrong.”
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“We have the right to do that with FIFA.”
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“He assured me today that they [India] will not be buying oil from Russia.”
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“They've allowed thousands and thousands of prisoners, mental institution people from mental institutions, insane asylums emptied out into…”
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“We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea.”
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“They raided illegally, my house in Florida, Mar a Lago.”
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“All because of Democrat obstruction. So John Thune did a great job. I signed, I must have signed 200 into the administration.”
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“This is a Democrat Schumer shutdown.”
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“It's a war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year.”
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“We're getting rid of programs that we didn't like, but that were negotiated in but we didn't like. We're terminating those programs and…”
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“Russell vote is really terminating tremendous numbers of Democrat projects.”
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“The project in Manhattan, the project in New York, it's billions and billions of dollars that Schumer has worked 20 years to get. It's…”
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“We had the head of CENTCOM today suggest that Hamas needs to hurry up and disarm and follow your comprehensive plan.”
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“If we didn't destroy the nuclear capability of Iran, that deal would have never happened for two reasons.”
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“Hamas had the support of Iran, and now Iran says, don't get us involved.”
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“We have 100% tariff.”
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“My son Eric, he's a wonderful kid. That guy spent so much time with subpoenas. He got more subpoenas than anybody in the history of our…”
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