In-Town Press Pool#5: quotes cont
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- Joe Reberkenny
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- Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM
In-Town Press Pool#5: Quotes cont
Blanche read from notes about the federal government’s response to cyber crimes and scams from DOJ
Thanked X as a collaborator in helping recover losses and find criminals
“Restrained 52 million dollars”
“Sending your grandmother links”
“Restrained nearly a million dollars”
Markwayne started to speak
“600k websites”
“Actionable results”
Thanked secret service as well for helping with child abuse videos being taken down
“7.7 billion” from elderly people 60 and above
Hegseth spoke
“Real issues that impact real people”
“Working shoulder to shoulder… in mass deportations of illegals
“Requisite capabilities that the War department has
“Map, disrupt, and dismantle [at Dept of War]
Stephen Miller
“No one else Had the vision, courage, leadership…” thanking Trump for engaging on the criminal enterprises through cyber landscape
“Face real jail time”
“Brining cyber crimes to the lowest level in its industry”
“Welfare fraud… America is not a pile of treasure… for others to loot for themselves”
Patel
“No president put pen to paper [like trump]
“Dismantled… over 20 compounds
“Saved 17 billion dollars from scam compounds
“Arrested 300 [in africa for scam relations]
“We are not waiting for scammers to hit our citizens”
Thanks,
Joe Reberkenny (he/him/his)
White House Correspondent