This Republican team is determined, unified, and ready for the fight. We finish strong in this Congress, and prepare now for the battles in the next one. 🇺🇸
Covered a lot of ground with @kayleighmcenany this morning.
It’s been the honor of my life to serve as the 56th Speaker of the House, and I’m committed to continue doing all I can to ensure the founding principles of America endure.
These four Model Cities will help advance this administration’s efforts to reject the status quo of allowing crime and disorder to go unchecked and restore law, order, and safety to communities across the nation. #MakeAmericaSafeAgain 🇺🇸
To submit to the sterile vision of radical judges or soulless global bureaucrats would be to betray our country and relieve ourselves of the burden of greatness.
America has always been a nation of irrepressible ambition. Low ceilings and small horizons were never our destiny.
🚨HAPPENING NOW: @AGToddBlanche announces the results of Operation TorNado: a coordinated, multi‑agency and international law enforcement effort targeting opioid and fentanyl traffickers on the Dark Web resulted in OVER 350 ARRESTS WORLDWIDE and the seizure of drugs, weapons, and over $234 MILLION ⬇️
“Nothing will stop the Trump Administration from identifying and dismantling drug trafficking networks,” said @AGToddBlanche. “Thanks to our partnerships with state, federal, and international law enforcement through the JCODE team, Operation TorNado crippled Dark Web market vendors and will bring alleged drug traffickers to justice. The Department of Justice will continue protecting the American people from lethal synthetic drugs and identifying bad actors around the globe who threaten American lives.”
🌪️ Operation TorNado: the LARGEST TAKEDOWN in the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement's (JCODE) HISTORY of Dark Web narcotics vendors who sold to TENS OF THOUSANDS of U.S. residents
Results:
🔴 354 ARRESTS
🔴 5.7 METRIC TONS DRUGS SEIZED
🔴 209 FIREARMS SEIZED
🔴 $234 MILLION CRYPTOCURRENCIES & CASH SEIZED
Read more about this International law enforcement operation here: https://t.co/x79ib4pbH3
Operation TorNado represents the sixth — and most extensive — internationally coordinated action since JCODE was created in 2018 and builds on the success of last year’s Operation RapTor.
By leveraging complementary partnerships and surging resources across the U.S. government and Europol, Operation TorNado SIGNIFICANTLY disrupted the online opioid trade and sends a strong message that criminals operating on the Dark Web are not beyond the reach of law enforcement.
Read more: https://t.co/x79ib4oDRv
🚨 UPDATE: Sec. Scott Bessent just said the Democrats better not get too comfortable in their new Congressional seats
"Democrats are RENTING those seats." 🔥
"Democrats who won in red states and red seats are just going to be, it's kind of like a ski rope where the skiers come off. They're just going to be caught in the wake and not know what to do."
At least 54 House Democrats now sit in TRUMP-WON DISTRICTS
Every one of them faces voters again in 2028, and they'll have to defend a full Democrat agenda and a legal weaponization CIRCUS
We have to win it all back.
AG Todd Blanche: “You can be critical of this administration. You can certainly be critical of me and critical of President Trump.” But “there can come a point when a criticism becomes a threat.”
.@AGToddBlanche: "Today’s announcements on the success of Operation TorNado is a reminder to parents about the dangerous and illegal activities that occur on the dark web. But it's also a reminder that the Department of Justice, in coordination with our partners across the federal government and across the globe, are working every day to protect the American people from drug traffickers who don’t care about what happens to your children, don’t care about what happens to you, and will do almost anything to make money."
Attorney General Todd Blanche just said something during a press conference that very few others are willing to say out loud.
He put the Democrats on notice.
Blanche looked directly into the media cameras and dropped it.
BLANCHE: “It should worry Americans, that four or five days after an election, the rhetoric is already at this point of unveiled or veiled threats against the administration, against people outside the administration.”
“You know, you have some folks saying it doesn't matter if you've left. We're still going to come after you and investigate it. That's not a crime... Nobody's saying that's a crime...”
“But at some point it does become a crime. The Title 18 protects individuals and there are victims of the type of harassment that becomes criminal.”
Democrats are already threatening anyone and everyone who had anything to do with the Trump administration, including Elon Musk.
Blanche is exposing their playbook.
.@AGToddBlanche: "There is no doubt that Operation TorNado saved lives across the country, and there is nothing that will stop this administration’s commitment to protecting the American people from synthetic drugs, which are lethal."