Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Two years ago, the Gaza franchise of the terrorist organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood perpetrated the most horrific act of jihad since 9/11, beheading raping and murdering 1200 Israeli babies, women and men.

The Biden-Harris administration responded with rhetorical sympathy, intermittent support and a diplomatic and political campaign to save Hamas and its allies from Israel’s retaliation and topple Benjamin Netanyahu.

Today, Egypt is hosting negotiations on a ceasefire “deal” strikingly similar to one drawn up by Kamala Harris’ national security advisor, Philip Gordon. As a practical matter, it would: ensure the survival of Hamas; preclude Israeli annexation of Judea and Samaria; conduce to a jihadist Palestinian state in Gaza; and likely result in Netanyahu’s electoral defeat.

That’s a formula for more endless war, not what is required to prevent it – namely, Israel’s decisive victory over her enemies and ours. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Twelve years ago, China’s Communist emperor, Xi Jinping, launched his so-called “Belt and Road Initiative.” It’s used to colonize nations around the world, seducing and entrapping them with large investments in infrastructure and other projects. 

Now, according to the formidable Chairman of the House Select CCP Committee, John Moolenaar, Xi seeks to do the same to us with the tantalizing promise of $1 trillion that would expand opportunities to subvert us from within by further penetrating our markets, elites and country. 

My Present Danger: China Committee colleague, Brian Kennedy, and I similarly warned President Trump yesterday. We pointed out that accepting such a deal would be ill-advised on financial terms alone, given the vastly larger sums the Chinese Communists already extract from us – to say nothing of their determination to destroy this country.

Just say “No,” Mr. President.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Donald Trump has practiced the “art of the deal” for decades.

The question is: Will his ambition to achieve a transformative Middle East peace agreement cause him to violate one of the most important principles of any constructive negotiation: You must be willing to walk away when one of the parties is acting in bad faith even before the deal is done.

That’s exactly what Hamas is doing. Presented with the President’s take-it-or-leave it ultimatum, Hamas accepted conditionally. 

President Trump pledged that Israel would have his support to finish the job in Gaza if Hamas didn’t fully accept the deal. Instead, the jihadists have pulled a bait-and-switch. 

If allowed to get away with it, they’ll only behave worse in a negotiating process that was not supposed to happen, but that’s now nonetheless underway in Egypt.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

For over fifty years, we’ve waged a “war on drugs.” A memo recently sent to Congress says President Trump has now declared we’re in a “non-international armed conflict with…designated terrorist organizations” and directed the Pentagon to conduct operations against them pursuant to the law of armed conflict.

Such operations have already resulted in the destruction of go-fast boats smuggling cocaine and fentanyl from Venezuela by a U.S. Navy task force in the Caribbean.

Inevitably, challenges to this policy will be pursued in court and in Congress. In the meantime, however, President Trump is creating powerful disincentives to our enemies waging what amounts to chemical warfare against us from the sea. 

We must also hold accountable a prime enabler of such warfare – the Chinese Communist Party – that provides the cartels with  precursors for fentanyl and meth and launders the proceeds of their sales.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

At a meeting with military leaders on Tuesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and President Trump opened the door to an urgently needed corrective to our national security posture. 

In the context of restoring the Pentagon’s focus on warfighting for a potentially imminent conflict, Secretary Hegseth told our top commanders “The next war…will likely not have a rear area.” 

And President Trump declared that the United States has been “invaded” and now confronts “enemies within.”

Such statements are, in fact, irrefutable. Notably, Joe Biden’s open borders permitted a stealthy invasion by Chinese soldiers and jihadists. Ominously, we don’t know their exact numbers or whereabouts, but can no longer ignore the threat they pose to our infrastructure, people and country.

Americans must be enlisted in crowdsourcing “situational awareness” about – and supporting the authorities’ neutralizing of – such enemies within before they strike here.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The War Department is back. Yesterday, its secretary, Pete Hegseth, told our top commanders what a difference that will make.

Every American – certainly those in uniform, but most especially our civilians – need to listen to what was one of the most impressive public addresses in our nation’s history. 

In its course, the Secretary underscored the object of the exercise: the restoration of the time-tested principle that if you want peace, prepare for war.

Secretary Hegseth described what that will mean in practical  terms – notably, a return to the warrior spirit, to physical fitness, to merit in promotions and to a state of heightened readiness appropriate to the dangerous world in which we live. 

The pride in, and gratitude for, our military expressed yesterday on behalf of our nation by both Pete Hegseth and President Trump was clearly heartfelt and deeply inspiring. 

Let’s roll! 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The day Secretary of War Pete Hegseth chose to gather hundreds of generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia, the flag of Communist China will fly over our nation’s birthplace in Philadelphia.

Unfortunately, the whole country may one day be flying China’s flag, rather than our own, if American leaders don’t recognize that the Chinese Communist Party is determined to destroy the USA. And, with ongoing funding from Wall Street, it has been inexorably putting into place the capabilities needed to accomplish that goal.

President Trump says they’ll discuss at Quantico “how well the military is doing.” But there must also be a frank discussion of the need for comprehensive and innovative efforts to prepare for a possibly imminent Chinese onslaught – likely starting with fifth column operations inside America thanks to Joe Biden allowing in tens of thousands of People’s Liberation Army soldiers. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

At the White House today, Donald Trump will likely press Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end hostilities in Gaza. Both men would be well advised, however, to have Iran top of mind.

Of course, Iran’s regime precipitated the horrific invasion of Israel by Hamas two years ago. The mullahs are also assiduously reconstituting their ability to attack the Jewish State again. 

In short, prematurely stopping Israel’s “12-Day War” against them did not actually end it. 

A cease-fire in Gaza now won’t result in peace there, either. It will only revive and embolden Hamas and others in the Global Islamic Movement – some of whom Mr. Trump envisions taking over the place when the shooting stops. 

That outcome would be a strategic defeat for Israel – and for us. We must not thereby guarantee the perpetuation of what truly is the ultimate endless war. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Former FBI Director James Comey’s indictment for providing false testimony to Congress and obstruction of justice promises accountability at last for at least some of his alleged criminal activity. 

Hopefully, the present charges will shortly be augmented by others associated with Comey’s leading role in the Obama administration’s conspiracy to keep Donald Trump from winning the White House in 2016 – and to sabotage his first presidency when that gambit failed.  

Another criminal probe seems in order regarding the conduct of Comey successor Christopher Wray in connection with the events of January 6th. Investigative reporter John Solomon just revealed that there were 274 undercover FBI agents in the crowd at the Capitol, reinforcing allegations that what occurred that day was an officially orchestrated “direct action” operation, not an insurrection.

It's high time we get “just the facts ma’am” about FBI malfeasance.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

The Chinese Communist Party is in trouble. The question is: Will the United States once again intervene to prop it up – or help liberate the Chinese people from the regime that has killed over a hundred million of them and threatens to do even worse to us?

The CCP is under acute stress from the cumulative effects of several intractable problems. These include serious economic difficulties, a population doomed to contract dramatically and attendant political turmoil suggesting Xi Jinping’s hold on power may be nearing an end.

President Trump is evidently being told the result could be chaos – possibly leading to the toppling of the Chinese Communist Party – and that this country must not pile on. 

While there can be no absolute certainty about how and when the Communist go odious regime will fall, the risks of a government that is determined to destroy us remaining in power and doing basically whatever it can to that end via “unrestricted warfare” are unacceptably high.  

We need to revert to President Reagan’s strategy for liberating enslaved peoples like those of the Soviet Union by cutting off our enemies’ hard currency cash flow and practicing “peace through strength.”

This is Frank Gaffney.