Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Yesterday, the White House press corps asserted that it is “racist” for President Trump to say the novel coronavirus originated in China. Not only is such criticism counter-factual. It actually reinforces what must now be recognized as enemy propaganda.

After all, the Chinese Communist Party is no longer hiding its determination to supplant and, if necessary, defeat our nation as the world’s preeminent power. But the Party is doing everything it can to blame us for the deadly pandemic that originated in Wuhan and is now wreaking havoc globally.

Britain’s University of Southampton estimates that 95% of the damage done by the Chinese virus could have been avoided if the Communist Party had not wasted three weeks lying about its outbreak. Not only must Xi Jinping and Company be held responsible for such outrageous misconduct. They should be financially penalized for it. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Democratic operatives have insisted for much of Donald Trump’s presidency that “No one is above the law.” It’s one of their more cynically hypocritical lines of attack against him, since they clearly don’t mean that the rule of law should apply to their partisans, too 

Take, for instance, Hillary Clinton and her long-running – and thus far successful – efforts to ensure that she and her entourage are not held to the same standards and statutes that apply to everybody else. To that end, the former Secretary of State is frantically trying to overturn a federal judge’s order that she must be deposed by Judicial Watch about her illegal email server and its serial compromises of national security secrets. 

The question occurs: Why on earth are the Trump administration’s Justice and State Departments helping Hillary get preferential, instead of equal, treatment under the law?

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Amidst Wall Street’s continuing free-fall and the nation’s struggle to adapt to social distancing, it’s important to bear in mind how we got here. A helpful online resource is China Uncensored’s YouTube channel.

Host Chris Chappell’s latest video identifies eight steps the Chinese Communist Party has utilized to manage and then “spin” the coronavirus that was unleashed worldwide from its original, and still worst hot zone in Wuhan. They include the initial, official denials of the outbreak and subsequent cover-up that contributed enormously to the pandemic’s spread, and subsequent efforts to boast about the Party’s totalitarian efforts suppress it – and its people. We’re supposed to believe that communism is a cure for coronavirus. 

Yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo diplomatically but sternly repudiated the latest Chinese gambit – blaming us for the “Wuhan virus.” Such propaganda adds deep insult to tremendous injury. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Socialism is a bigger threat than the coronavirus. And the Wuhan Flu has the potential greatly to accelerate the globalists’ efforts to spread their socialist political agenda at the expense of both public health and national sovereignty. Remember, they believe a crisis should never go to waste.

Video is circulating on the Internet from an exercise dubbed Event 201 conducted in October 2019. Its sponsors and participants included such globalist powerhouses as: the Bloomberg-backed Johns Hopkins University, the Davos World Economic Forum, the Gates, Rockefeller and UN Foundations, the World Bank, the CIA and the U.S. and Chinese Centers for Disease Control. They talk on tape about exploiting a pandemic to fund and build global governance. 

We must not allow the present crisis to undermine our national sovereignty and promote socialism. Unfortunately, the globalists clearly disagree.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Arguably, the best article published since we learned of the coronavirus outbreak last January appeared in today’s Washington Post. Columnist Josh Rogin called Wall Street’s practice of using passive index funds to insinuate problematic Chinese companies into our capital markets “an even bigger financial threat” than the Wuhan Flu.

Rogin cites President Trump’s National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien, as stating recently: “I don’t see why we should be underwriting the Chinese defense industry.” Ditto, one might add, why finance PRC companies that help Beijing repress its people, colonize nations around the world or dominate space?

Rogin’s warning comes as the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan is poised to compel servicemen and women, Members of Congress and other government employees to start investing in such Chinese corporations. We must curb both the threat of Wuflu and of indexes that invest in our enemies.   

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

President Trump addressed the nation last night with an update about the state of the Wuhan flu and his administration’s various initiatives aimed at minimizing its public health and economic impact in this country.

It was a sober speech, clearly aimed at striking a difficult balance between conveying bad news – notably, the pandemic’s spread to continental Europe and, therefore, the need to suspend most air travel from there – with a mix of calming perspective and resolve.

Mr. Trump announced several initiatives aimed at mitigating the hardships being experienced by growing numbers of Americans and their businesses as a result of quarantines, social distancing and other disruptions. Of these, the most promising and least susceptible to abuse – or conversion into some sort of new, permanent and unaffordable entitlement – is a payroll tax cut or tax holiday. 

Let’s pray these steps actually help.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Yesterday, the UN Security Council endorsed the U.S. deal with the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” a.k.a. the Taliban. Afghan president Ashraf Ghani decided to begin releasing Taliban prisoners. What could possibly go wrong?

The answer is plenty. Our preoccupation with the Wuhan Flu may obscure another danger, namely that the agreement regarding Afghanistan’s future will unleash a renewed outbreak of another virulent pandemic: Sharia-supremacism.

A troubling comparisonby Stephen Young of the Afghan deal with the one that sealed the fate of South Vietnam suggests the Taliban could well use it to retake all of Afghanistan, encouraging jihadists the world over to believe that they, too, can defeat the United States.

We need an insurance policy with volunteer veterans helping the Afghan military and a proven counter-insurgency program that would enable Afghans to defend themselves and their villages against a resurgent Taliban. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The narrative increasingly circulating in this hyper-partisan election season is that the coronavirus outbreak is President Trump’s fault.  Sen. Bernie Sanders actually presided over an event yesterday in Michigan on the eve of today’s primary there to promote that meme.

Interestingly, one of the most important actions Mr. Trump took to mitigate the pandemic’s spread here was the restriction on travel from countries in which the Wuhan Flu has been present.  Unfortunately, that order’s effectiveness has been undermined by our inability to secure the nation’s borders. Who bears principal responsibility for insisting over the past three years that particularly our southern border must remain porous?  The answer is, of course, congressional Democrats like Sen. Sanders.

Can anyone honestly say under present circumstances that they prefer gaping holes in our ability to monitor and control who enters our country over having “The Wall”?

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

President Trump is cleaning house at last. After more than three years of being sabotaged by Obama holdovers, establishment Republicans and even some overtly Never-Trumper individuals inside his administration, he is creating vacancies and filling them with experienced, capable people who actually want tohelp him succeed. 

A case in point was the singularly transformative appointment Mr. Trump made last Friday with his designation of Rep. Mark Meadows as White House Chief of Staff. By so doing, the President has secured the services of a principled conservative with proven leadership skills and integrity undiminished by his extensive Washington experience – someone he can unhesitatingly trust for sage political and policy counsel.

Donald Trump and his administration will not be the only beneficiaries of Mark Meadows’ important new role. The United States of America and all her people will benefit massively, as well. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

One of the few silver linings to the very dark cloud that is the coronavirus pandemic may be that American businesses, consumers and policymakers are alarmed by our country’s yawning dependence on Communist China for seemingly everything.

That includes virtually all of our medicines – a national security, as well as public health, nightmare. Even if deliveries are restored, it’s now obvious that we cannot responsibly trust, let alone rely upon, a hostile power like the Chinese Communist Party for anything we have to have.

Beijing’s propagandists recently declared that we have no alternative to such dependency and dared the United States to try to free ourselves from it. Google’s former CEO, Eric Schmitt is warning that the federal government must invest to help us do so. So must Wall Street financiers who have been underwriting with our money Chinese competitors and threats.  

This is Frank Gaffney.