At one point, Miller told the assembled local police officers, “I see the guns and badges in this room. You are unleashed. The handcuffs you’re carrying, they’re not on you anymore, they’re on the criminals. And whatever you need to get it done, we’re gonna get it done.”

The 40-year-old stated that they had deployed over 13 government agencies, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the Department of Defense, which Hegseth has since rebranded as the “Department of War.”

“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.

“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”

At the Wednesday appearance, Hegseth thanked the assembled Memphis law officers for working in dangerous places “where politicians spend a lot of time second guessing… the impossible decisions that you have to make that they will never understand.”

Hegseth, Bondi and Miller spent around an hour in the Shelby County Office of Preparedness and left via the rear entrance, according to WREG TV.

Bondi said on X that 53 arrests had been made and 20 illegal firearms seized in the first two days of the Memphis Safe Task Force.

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    They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are

    This bald Nazi wannabe talks big, but I bet he would collapse on his knees and cry for mommy if he found himself being mugged in an alleyway.

    What the fuck is wrong with this psycho? Was he bullied at school or something?

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      He almost cried and ended up shouting like a child when a reporter confronted him on if he believed Maduro’s crime stats.

      He will definitely cry if he’s mugged.

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          That’s amazing that he refers to children being raped over and over again in that clip, and then says Trump will be elected to fix it.

          He claimed Donald Trump, who is in the Epstein Files, will stop children being raped.

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          He has interviews from the first term where he is clearly all coked up and shouting over the interviewers and accusing them. Reporters need to cut them off when they shout over them and abuse them on camera.

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          His bald pate is glistening more and more throughout.

          These clowns have clearly forgotten what proper journalism is all about.

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        Cheesus. Did his elementary school teacher really talk about him pouring glue on his forearm, letting it dry, peeling it off and eating it?

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            Political leaning & income are only (possibly less than) half of the story.

            I know plenty of people who are totally OK in every other respect but incredibly shitty parents.

            Though the older I grow the more I appreciate being a good parent as a defining characteristic.

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      I bet he feels uncomfortable anytime he walks the city streets. Probably much more at home in the sewers

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      No. Generally the kids who get bullied go on to have great lives. Bullies generally pick on those that are better than them.

      Removed the bullied from the environment that binds them to the bullies (I.E, high school ends), and suddenly the former bullied thrive in the real world.

      This guy was probably a bully who’s learned nothing.

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        No, this dude was not a bully. He’s a sociopath (maybe psychopath) who has had always had the means to overcome his antisocial disorder.

        You can see it in his responses, he feigns emotion. He acts in a way that he believes others perceive as confidence or authority but it just “feels” wrong as the other. Dead facial expressions followed by forced pauses for fake introspection which extremely animated facial expressions, then right back to dead face.

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          I concur. I think it is telling that he didn’t choose to just stonewall the reporter with “No further comment.” He has a malevolent drive to push that narrative

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        Generally the kids who get bullied go on to have great lives

        That depends on measuring sticks and how much actual healing has been done, not so much six visits of CBT designed to get one merely functional. Look at all the depression/anxiety/anger posts by high achievers.