Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

In a nomination hearing last week, Riley Barnes cited former Senator and Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “We are a nation founded on a powerful principle…that all men are created equal, because our rights come from God our Creator – not from our laws, not from our governments.”

Democratic Senator Tim Kaine – evidently unaware that this principle was explicitly enshrined in the Declaration of Independence – found that statement “extremely troubling.” He declared, “The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes.”

Yesterday, President Trump sharply repudiated Kaine, saying he “should be ashamed of himself.” He vowed, “Under the Trump administration, we're defending our rights and restoring our identity as a nation under God. We are one nation under God and we always will be.” 

Amen. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

President Trump has restored the Defense Department’s name to the Department of War. Largely unnoted in the reporting on the rebrand is the fact that we are at war – and it could go fully kinetic at any time.

That’s the conclusion of a riveting webinar conducted last week by our Committee on the Present Danger: China to document the Chinese Communists’ long-running, “unrestricted” and even declared “People’s War” against our country.

This PresentDangerChina.org webinar revealed the extent to which Xi Jinping’s own preparations for a shooting war are being accompanied by those of Russia, North Korea and Iran, whose leaders were in Beijing last week and may well have discussed joint action.

America needs not just a Department of War but a war-footing if we are to counter – and, ultimately prevail in – World War Xi.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Big Pharma sure is furious with Robert Kennedy, Jr. The pharmaceutical industry wants him terminated as Health and Human Services Secretary.

That was the unmistakable takeaway from Bobby’s hours-long grilling yesterday before the Senate Finance Committee. He was relentlessly attacked by Democratic members for his insistence that the impact of the COVID and other vaccines on public health must be scientifically scrutinized.

One of them, Vermont’s Marxist Senator Bernie Sanders, actually copped to Secretary Kennedy’s observation in response that such critics were recipients of immense campaign contributions from Pharma, admitting that every Senator takes money from the industry. That’s also true of the media, academia and key government agencies.

Politicians will discover their constituents increasingly support Bobby Kennedy, not Big Pharma. President Trump rightly wants the facts out about vaccine safety, and so do the American people. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping just hosted leaders of the world’s most dangerous regimes against the backdrop of a parade through Tiananmen Square testifying to the PRC’s unprecedented military build-up. 

President Trump declared on social media that Xi, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un are “conspiring  against the United States.”

There are ominous indicators of what such a conspiracy might entail. For one thing, past pilgrimages to Beijing by Putin, Israel’s enemies and Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro have resulted in actual, or promised, acts of “strategic arson.” 

And all of these co-conspirators appear to be preparing for more such aggression by mobilizing and/or upgunning forces, and in the case of Russia, North Korea and some Iranian proxies engaging in actual attacks.

An important webinar tomorrow afternoon will examine what the Beijing Bloc may do next. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

President Trump took to social media yesterday to respond to the offensively false narrative pushed out by Xi Jinping and his friends in the emerging “Beijing Bloc” about the Chinese Communist Party’s pivotal role in defeating Imperial Japan. 

In fact, while the U.S. military decisively helped the people of China and their nationalist government fight the Japanese at tremendous cost during World War II, the CCP was almost completely AWOL.

Mr. Trump also correctly observed that Xi was using meetings with his despotic Russian and North Korean counterparts to “conspire” against the United States. The question is: Will that conspiracy result in more of the “strategic arson” the Chinese dictator and his allies have perpetrated to date in Ukraine and the Mideast – presumably next in Asia? 

We’re on notice that Xi’s regime is our enemy. It must be treated as such. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

For two overarching reasons, no good can come of the summit Communist China convened last weekend. 

First, there’s a discernable pattern of what happens when Chinese dictator Xi Jinping entertains his counterparts from dangerous regimes. I call it “strategic arson.” 

Second, in part due to the resulting conflagrations, Xi, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the Iranian mullahs are in trouble. Together with disastrous economic policies and/or repression at home, there are growing pressures from within and without for regime changes.

Tyrants often respond to such conditions by lashing out, manufacturing foreign crises to justify intensified control at home. Xi Jinping is talking up “global governance,” a euphemism for establishing a world order run by him and his friends in “Beijing’s bloc.”

This is Frank Gaffney.

The White House announced yesterday that President Trump is not proposing to issue six hundred thousand student visas to Chinese nationals. That’s the good news. 

The bad news is that the Trump administration will instead simply maintain the current number of such PRC “students” at large in this country. That amounts to roughly a quarter million of them – all of whom the Chinese Communists can weaponize, compelling them to steal our intellectual property and other secrets, and/or potentially engage in devastating physical attacks, particularly collectively.

Consequently, President Trump needs to restore the policy that Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled just three months ago, declaring: “The U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”

Just do it

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Communist China is in trouble. The cumulative effect of various economic, environmental and demographic problems precipitated by decades of Chinese Communist Party misrule is translating into acute political turmoil. There is growing speculation that dictator Xi Jinping’s grip on absolute power is imperiled.

That crisis presents President Trump with a momentous choice: Come to the CCP’s rescue, as did his predecessors Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Or, like Ronald Reagan, help liberate people enslaved and murdered by a regime that mortally threatens us.

Mr. Trump’s announcement that he’ll admit six hundred thousand PRC students – reportedly a priority of, and favor to, Xi – suggests he’s willing to prop up the CCP. Having what could translate into a million fighting-age Chinese nationals in the United States, however, is an obvious threat to our country, and the wrong choice regarding China. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Cracker Barrel has jettisoned a corporate reboot abandoning its traditional extolling of Americana after overwhelming repudiation by consumers and shareholders. President Trump needs to make a similar reversal concerning a vastly more problematic departure from his “America First” brand.

Mr. Trump says he’ll give six-hundred thousand Chinese nationals student visas. If added to the two hundred and seventy thousand already in the U.S. and a hundred thousand other, military-age men believed to be PRC soldiers let in by Joe Biden, we’d have roughly a million foreigners obliged by their country’s law to put China first. 

That invites disaster. The CCP makes no secret of its determination to destroy this country and has pursued for decades “unrestricted warfare” to that end. 

Mr. Trump needs to reverse course to impede such threats by removing, not reinforcing, potential enemies inside America.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

As young people head to school across America, President Trump announced they are going to have company from Communist China – a lot of company. He declared yesterday that he will admit six-hundred thousand Chinese students to help us “get along with China.”

Mr. Trump didn’t elaborate on the timing of the arrival of all those PRC nationals – many of whom are members of the Chinese Communist Party and all of whom are obliged to engage in espionage, intellectual property theft or sabotage if ordered to do so by the CCP. 

Whenever these dual-use students arrive, they’ll join perhaps one-hundred thousand alleged Chinese soldiers Joe Biden let in. Recall the damage done to our country by nineteen amateurs on 9/11 and it’s clear we cannot afford to have an actual army of professionals and their potential student interns here from China. 

This is Frank Gaffney.