Secure Freedom Minute

Against the backdrop of a meeting of national security luminaries – including Secretary of State Marco Rubio – last weekend in Munich, Germany, a most amazing event took place.

According to police estimates, a quarter of a million people took to that city’s streets in solidarity with the people of Iran, demanding an end to the horrific sharia-supremacist tyranny that has brutally repressed them and threatened us for nearly fifty years.

Senator Lindsay Graham conveyed America’s support for liberating the Iranian people. His comments came shortly after President Trump observed the end of the ayatollahs’ regime would be “the best thing that could happen.” 

Mr. Trump now has in place military forces that can destroy the  mullahs’ remaining security apparatus. It’s time for the promised “help is on the way” to be translated into help delivered and a true “Liberation Day” achieved.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Under Secretary of State for Arms Control Thomas DiNanno recently revealed that the Chinese Communist Party has covertly explosively tested nuclear weapons creating yields of “hundreds of tons” of dynamite. By so doing, the CCP has validated that the state-of-the-art arms they are putting on an astonishing array of new missiles and bomber aircraft actually work. 

That amounts to Chinese cheating on an international ban on such testing. It also demands that that the United States – which hasn’t conducted such a test since 1992 and, unlike China, has no treaty obligation to refrain from doing so, must validate that the obsolescing weapons in its arsenal are actually still safe, reliable and effective, too.  

President Trump says he wants to test our nuclear weapons as others have done. Our national security and deterrence requires we do just that now.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump says “Iran wants a deal.” It would be more accurate to say Iran wants to negotiate about “a deal.” The difference is, as Mark Twain put it, between “lightning and a lightning bug.”

Iran’s sharia-supremacist regime has used decades of such negotiations ostensibly aimed at denuclearizing Iran, to buy time to continue: its nuclear weapons program; its build-up of various missiles with which to deliver them across the Middle East and even here; and its enabling of jihadist terrorism worldwide.

Mr. Trump insists he’ll address all those threats. But the ayatollahs have a culture of haggling in the bazaar and hope to run the clock out on his military options.

Memo to the President: “Give peace a chance” the only way it can possibly eventuate – namely, by doing deals with the liberated people of Iran after this regime is gone. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump’s meeting this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could finally precipitate the end of the still-metastasizing sharia-supremacist regime in Iran.

Alternatively, it could result in failure by allowing the Iranian mullahocracy literally to get away with murder and continue its preparations to unleash truly apocalyptic destruction. 

That is not hyperbole. Rather, it is the mission statement of the official religion of Iran, which holds that only such devastation will bring back its messiah. 

Mr. Trump is being told that giving the ayatollahs more time to make a deal could actually eliminate the threat they pose. It ain’t gonna happen.

Mr. President: Give peace the only chance that will actually make a difference: Help liberate the people of Iran from the tyrants who will otherwise continue to murder them and eventually fulfill the regime’s mantra of “Death to America.”

This is Frank Gaffney.

There is something surreal about the Enemy Within’s determined “Defund the Police” 2.0. Those Communists, jihadists and their fellow travelers doing business as the Democratic Party – with a few irresponsible Republicans – are demanding that we effectively disarm ICE at a moment when we need it more than ever to find and remove, or otherwise neutralize, “the worst of the worst” of the illegal immigrants in America. 

By any definition, such illegals would include tens of thousands Chinese soldiers now inside this country. Especially when it appears they can tap perhaps 20 biological warfare laboratories here, too.

CIA veteran Sam Faddis warns that, based on the two labs discovered so far, their contents could kill between sixty-ninety percent of those infected. 

Consequently, the treacherous anti-ICE enemies within are also among the worst of the worst. They must be treated as such.

This is Frank Gaffney.

What if Chinese Communist emperor Xi Jinping is lying to Donald Trump, like he did to his top generals? 

The President has repeatedly reported Xi told him Taiwan would not be invaded during the second Trump administration. While that’s obviously desirable, the implication that Communist China will invade after Trump leaves office is ominous. It also seems increasingly unlikely. 

The People’s Liberation Army is now regularly rehearsing decapitation attacks, blockades and other invasion scenarios against Taiwan’s main island. Xi is fracturing America’s alliances. And he has his country on a war-footing.

Xi is also a practiced liar. Just ask the top generals he has systematically purged, obviously having told the most recent victims they would not share the earlier ones’ fate. Their replacements will likely be all-in for invasion, and the truth is, it could – and probably will – come at any time. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Donald Trump and Democrats appear to agree that the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement effort to find and remove illegal immigrants requires a reboot. 

Unfortunately, the changes the President’s partisan opponents want would effectively preclude many ICE operations. He is resisting some, but has agreed that Democratic governors and mayors can preclude them in their jurisdictions. 

A new bestseller by Peter Schweizer makes clear that what’s needed to secure this country is very different. The Invisible Coup lays bare the subversion that is now afoot at the hands of foreign enemies and their domestic allies. 

Consequently, ICE – and, as needed, other elements of the U.S. government – should urgently be tasked with identifying and neutralizing the large numbers of Chinese soldiers, jihadists and others here and determined to destroy or “reconquer” this country. 

Americans enabling such subversion must be held accountable, too. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump recently announced that a new company would control TikTok’s powerful algorithm in the United States. Its owners include Larry Ellison’s Oracle, a U.A.E. AI company, and – wait for it – the platform’s Chinese Communist Party-controlled founder, Bytedance. TikTok’s Chinese CEO will serve on its Board of Directors.

How exactly this will work with respect to the CCP’s toxic weaponization of TikTok remains to be seen. The continuing involvement of Chinese nationals and the parent company is concerning. So is the fact that TikTok’s surveillance, propaganda and influence operations will persist outside the U.S. on platforms supposed to be seamlessly accessible to American users.

President Trump credits Chinese dictator Xi Jinping with approving this deal. Probably that’s because Xi’s sure the CCP will still be able to addict, disinform, manipulate and mobilize young Americans – and profit handsomely in the process. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Europeans have been sharply critical of President Trump for his insistence that U.S. security requires actual ownership of Greenland. Formerly Great Britain is, however, giving everyone an object lesson on why that’s so.

The UK’s hard-left Prime Minister Keir Starmer is currently in Beijing negotiating a new “strategic partnership” with Communist China. Simultaneously, he’s seeking parliamentary approval to surrender British sovereignty over – and, inevitably, U.S. use of – Diego Garcia, a strategically vital base in the Indian Ocean. 

The Chinese would be the principal beneficiary of such a betrayal, and probably ultimately the inheritors of that base, as they were Afghanistan’s Bagram.

The President has rightly called Starmer’s sellout on Diego Garcia an act of “great stupidity.” He must now inform the Brits that the United States formally rejects the deal and will take ownership of the island if they relinquish it. 

This is Frank Gaffney.