Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The U.S. intelligence community has reportedly confirmed what has been obvious to anyone paying attention: The Chinese Communist Party has been maliciously untruthful from the get-go about the coronavirus it unleashed on the world.

Two unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, described the classified report’s conclusions more diplomatically, saying the data supplied by Beijing were “intentionally incomplete.”

Call it what you will, the devastating effect of the Communist Chinese selectively releasing such information, was confirmed on Tuesday by Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House point person on COVID-19: It kept our government from properly understanding and quickly responding to a pandemic involving a highly contagious disease. 

In other words, to paraphrase a favorite Democratic talking-point from the George W. Bush years: “China lied. People died.” The Chinese Communist Party must be held accountable for that appalling truth – and continuing scandal.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Donald Trump has become a wartime president, striving to lead the nation in a life-and-death struggle against an unprecedented, invisible enemy now estimated to be likely to kill at least 100,000 Americans. And that’s the best case at the moment.

At a press briefing yesterday where that frightening statistic was announced, Mr. Trump channeled his inner Churchill. He spoke candidly about the dangers ahead, led his COVID-19 task force in explaining the comprehensive steps it is taking to minimize such losses and fielded mostly hostile questions from the White House press corps.

One such query prompted President Trump to characterize his style of leadership as fundamentally optimistic. Despite the abundant bad news, he sees his job as one of holding out hope, not promoting despair, exhorting us and showing us how to respond responsibly and, thereby, defeat the pandemic enemy.

Godspeed, Mr. President.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

We don’t know whether the Chinese Communist Party virus was engineered at a facility in Wuhan associated with a covert biological warfare program reportedly founded to destroy this country.

What we do know is that the pandemic the Party, by its lies and inaction, allowed to incubate and spread globally has demonstrated biowarfare’s effectiveness.

After all, even a relatively low-lethality, but highly contagious, disease has literally shut down China’s main enemy – the United States of America. Without a shot having been fired, our people have been terrified, our economy devastated and our military sidelined. Indeed, sickened sailors have forced our two Pacific-deployed aircraft carriers into port and our ability to project power from the homeland is seriously degraded for the foreseeable future. 

President Trump is right: We are at war with an invisible enemy from China. We better get on a war-footing NOW. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

In France, the effort to protect the population against the Chinese virus has come a cropper because of another raging pandemic. In cities across the country, Sharia-supremacists are refusing to cooperate with the government-mandated lockdown – and are getting away with it.

A top French Ministry of the Interior official recently announced, “It is not a priority to enforce closings in certain neighborhoods and to stop gatherings.” The reason, he said, is that imposing the same restrictions on the hundreds of so-called “sensitive urban zones” that his government has essentially surrendered to Islamists in recent years would risk triggering violent mayhem.

It makes no more sense to tolerate the danger posed by Sharia-supremacist enclaves than it does to pretend potential COVID-19 hotspots can be safely ignored. Doing both poses a mortal threat to France – and the rest of the civilized world.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Yesterday, the U.S. government formally charged the communist dictator of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, and his cronies with waging narco-terrorist warfare against our country.

According to Attorney General William Barr, who unveiled an indictment against Maduro and fourteen other co-conspirators, they “allegedly conspired with the FARC [Columbian terrorist group], causing tons of cocaine to enter and devastate American communities.”

It’s bad enough that Maduro and his thugs have destroyed their country – forcing millions of Venezuelans to flee abject poverty and brutal repression – and given our enemies like Cuba, Iran, Russia and China footholds in this hemisphere.

In addition, Venezuela’s president and secretary of defense are among the kleptocrats benefiting from the sustained use against our people of narcotic forms of weapons of mass destruction. So, the new, multi-million dollar U.S. bounties for their arrests should read instead, “Wanted: Dead or Alive."

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

It’s been said that “a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” America is undergoing a similar transformation, having been mugged by the reality of the pandemic precipitated by the Chinese Communist Party. 

President Trump spoke Monday for millions of us who now realize that we can no longer do business as usual with China. He said, “We should never be reliant on a foreign country for the means of our own survival….This crisis has underscored just how critical it is to have strong borders and a robust manufacturing sector….

“Our goal for the future must be to have American medicine for American patients, American supplies for American hospitals, and American equipment for our great American heroes,” Trump said. “Now both parties must unite to ensure America is truly an independent nation in every sense of the word.”

Amen.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

“You want it bad, you get it bad” is a maxim that applies in spades to must-pass legislation. A case in point is the emergency bill now being finalized in Congress that’s ostensibly aimed at alleviating the damage being done to the American people and economy by the Chinese virus.

Unfortunately, House Democrats have seized upon the opportunity, in the words of their chamber’s third-ranking leader, Rep. Jim Clyburn, “to restructure things to fit our vision.” As a result, the House-passed version would enhance the power of unions, help advance the radical environmentalists’ “Green New Deal” agenda and enable voting fraud on an unprecedented scale.

Initially, Democratic Senators fell into line with Speaker Pelosi’s demands. While they ultimately won’t get everything she wanted, the $2 trillion bill rewards such shakedown artists at the expense – figuratively and literally – of suffering American taxpayers.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The Hawaiian island of Oahu is home to the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet. Ordinarily, it’s a bustling place. In this time of pandemic disease, government shutdown and social distancing, however, it is reportedly eerily quiet – a  symptom of our nation’s preoccupation with the myriad domestic crises brought on by the one foreign threat we perceive at the moment: the Chinese virus.

But experienced national security professionals are warning that the Chinese Communist Party may regard this moment as an ideal one for lashing out, perhaps by invading Taiwan. It has been preparing for such an ambitious operation for years with the deployment nearby of immense amounts of military gear, including advanced ballistic missiles, aircraft and ships. 

The PRC is indisputably behaving increasingly provocatively towards Taiwan – and towards us. If we want peace, we better prepare for war with Communist China.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The Chinese Communist Party is doubling down on its effort to deflect blame for the global pandemic that began in Wuhan late last year. The CCP has immense resources for planting and disseminating falsehoods like the charge that the virus actually was brought there by US Army personnel participating in military games in that city in October.

Unfortunately, China’s Communists can count on American partisans to help them amplify their propaganda. Take, for example, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who recently dubbed the so-called COVID-19 outbreak the “Trump Pandemic.” 

The Communists in China and their friends aren’t just lying about the provenance of this virus. They’re concealing its current status in China. For example, the Party insists not one member of its military has been infected. Really?

A new moniker is making the rounds: “The CCP Virus.”

Works for me.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

When influential globalists met last October for their “Event 201” table-top exercise, they anticipated that a coronavirus pandemic would promote their favorite cause: one-world governance.

An early victim of the Chinese-induced pandemic, however, appears to be the prototype and chief advocate for the transnational enterprise: the European Union. Central to the EU’s efforts to diminish and ultimately destroy the identity and sovereignty of its member states was the elimination of the Union’s internal borders.

But, in response to the Chinese virus, nation after nation in Europe – including Germany, the so-called Schengen zone’s most aggressive champion – have reinstituted and closed their borders. More of them may ultimately follow Britain in exiting from Brussels’ union.

To be determined is whether Communist China – whose personnel participated in Event 201 – will succeed in translating today’s pandemic into momentum towards its preferred world government under Beijing’s dominion.   

This is Frank Gaffney.