Trump’s FBI is 'padding the stats' to make admin look less inept: report

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the signing ceremony for an execituve order on mail ballots, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 31, 2026. REUTERS Evan Vucci

Those arrest states that FBI head Kash Patel is waving around at Congress this week are cooked, reports MS NOW Justice reporter Ken Dilanian. Sources inside the Trump administration claim the numbers are fake in damning statements about President Donald Trump's arrest statistics at the FBI.

“FBI insiders are saying this is a blatant attempt to pad the stats,” Dilanian told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur, referring to Patel’s repeated claim that he’s outpaced his predecessors capturing fugitives on the vaunted Ten Most Wanted List that's been around for decades.

“When we looked into this, we found out that of the six people who were captured from the Most Wanted List during Kash Patel’s tenure, four of them were captured the same month. They were placed on the list, and two of them were captured within 24 hours.”

That may sound like efficiency at first, but people inside the FBI say it’s actually sleight of hand by low-grade statisticians.

“When we started talking to people about it, what we learned is that essentially the FBI is gaming the system,” Dilanian said. “According to insiders, they are putting people on the list, elevating people to that list that they know are about to be captured. In one case, a fugitive in Mexico was captured an hour and 13 minutes after being placed on the list. And, of course, to mount a complex operation to capture a fugitive in Mexico takes longer than an hour of planning. So, they knew that was underway. And they put this person on the list. And then Kash Patel goes out and says, ‘hey, we're way better than the Biden administration at capturing people on the Ten Most Wanted List.’

The move is comparable to shooting fish in a barrel but claiming they're from the lake, say insiders.

Other anonymous sources speaking to MS NOW say Trump's politicized FBI is deliberately gloming onto arrests made by state and local agencies and calling them “FBI arrests” because FBI agents were on the scene at the time of the arrest — and not in charge of the operation.

“Those arrests that did not get counted before. So, it's not comparing apples to apples,” said Dilanian.

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