Secure Freedom Minute

Donald Trump is continuing to ramp up threats to impose high tariffs on imports from nations around the world. Most of those being targeted are allies or at least friendly trading partners. One that has yet to receive the President’s intensified pressure, however, is actually a mortal enemy: Communist China. 

CCP propaganda outlet Global Times reports that in just four recent days, American consumers spent $24 billion online with much of it purchasing Chinese goods via Amazon, Walmart and Target. 

Retired Navy Captain James Fanell points out that Mr. Trump “needs to take to the bully pulpit and…explain [that] if Americans keep buying goods made in the PRC, they will be responsible for arming an enemy who is prepared to destroy America….If we do not decouple, then no amount of tariffs or other measures will save this nation.”

Amen.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This week, the Trump administration took the first, long-overdue step to put America on a war-footing. 

That’s the upshot of a new “National Farm Security Action Plan” explicitly aimed at reducing the very considerable threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party to our food supply, related production operations and farmland across the country. 

The Action Plan’s roll-out highlighted collaboration between the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Homeland Security and Justice. Their efforts will all be needed to defeat such dangerous Chinese threat vectors as: stealing our intellectual property; acquiring land within striking distance of key military installations; smuggling in crop-destroying pathogens; and operating at least one covert biological warfare lab in this country.

A more comprehensive war-footing must now be adopted to protect our people and communities, including by: deporting all Chinese students, soldiers and other potential operatives; rebuilding our military; and not underwriting theirs. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

On the eve of his first election, Donald Trump warned about the threat posed by an ideology he described as “radical Islamic terrorism,” sharply criticizing those who ignored that reality – and committing to counter it comprehensively. 

Today, President Trump is surrounded by official and unofficial advisors convinced that deals can be done with devoted adherents to that ideology. Its financial enablers in Qatar, an al Qaeda leader now president of Syria, the surviving Hamas leadership and their Iranian sponsors are now the focus of various U.S. diplomatic and commercial engagement initiatives.

Unfortunately, the radical Islamic ideology of Sharia requires its adherents to use temporary truces to deceive infidels as part of a strategy of destroying them. Mr. Trump urgently needs a second opinion, informed by those who know he was right nine years ago – lest he encourage, and enable, the Sharia-supremacists’ jihadism.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the latest high-profile victim of an illegal impersonation enabled by artificial intelligence. Several nations’ foreign ministers, a state governor and a U.S. senator received voice messages apparently from him.

It's hard to overstate the damage such seemingly official communications involving senior government leaders with national security responsibilities could cause. And that is before further, pell-mell evolutions of artificial intelligence fed by a technology race with Communist China create what amounts to “FrankenAI.”  

The Trump administration wants no regulatory interference impeding that race. In its absence, the U.S. Senate just voted nearly unanimously against an amendment that would have precluded statesfrom regulating artificial intelligence for ten years. 

Secretary Rubio’s experience is but the latest warning that oversight and some regulation is required to warn of, and hopefully minimize, truly FrankenAI.

This is Frank Gaffney.

On February 21st, President Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum making it the policy of the U.S. government to stop underwriting the Chinese Communist Party. 

Three months later, Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America flouted that “America First Investment Policy.” They helped arrange for Americans and others to invest over $4.6 billion in a Hong Kong initial public offering of a Pentagon-designated “Chinese military company.”

The Financial Times reported yesterday that 47 other Chinese corporations are now in the process of following the lead of that company known as CATL – one involved in providing advanced

electric batteries to make Chinese submarines more lethal threats to our Navy and sailors.

We must stop financing our mortal enemy and hold accountable those like Messrs. Dimon and Moynihan who profit from selling out America. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump famously promised that we would “get tired of winning.” The question occurs: Has he gotten tired of winning? 

That appears to be the case in the wake of Mr. Trump’s declaration that Israel’s war with Iran is over. Today, he is expected to follow up that ceasefire with another one in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. 

While some perceive such imposed ends of hostilities to be evidence of the President’s power to make peace and, perhaps thereby, win a Nobel prize, such achievements are certain to prove fleeting, at best. 

At worst, they guarantee more, truly endless war will be conducted against Israel, the United States and Western civilization more generally at the hands of Iranian and other Sharia-supremacists emboldened by their survival at our hands.

That is the sort of “win” of which we will become very tired.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Today we celebrate the founding of our nation and those who fought to realize the vision of an America free of British misrule to which they courageously pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. 

As it happens, but for the intervention of another foreign power, all might well have been lost. In 1777, France formally announced its recognition of the United States of America, backed by arms shipments, diplomatic support and military forces like those that helped secure our victory at Yorktown.

It behooves us to remember that crucial help as we hear reports of the Iranian mullahs murdering their people to prevent a revolution from giving rise to a Free Iran. Israel is ready to finish the job by rendering the regime unable to cling to power. All we need to do is get out of the way. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Einstein Was Right – Try The Sane Alternative to a Ceasefire in Gaza!

Albert Einstein famously said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Compelling Israel once again to pull back from a decisive victory in Gaza seems to fit that description.

President Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week and is expected to press his guest to accept a 60-day ceasefire with Hamas. The predictable result would be to give Hamas what their patrons – the Iranian mullahs – got from the last one in Iran: namely, a new lease on life.

Compelling the Israelis to withdraw from parts of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to Hamas simply means the war there will resume in due course – and under circumstances significantly less favorable to both the Israelis and us.

The time has come to try the sane alternative: Let Israel finish the job.

This is Frank Gaffney

During the Cold War, American experts would scrutinize every shred of evidence – including who stood where on Lenin’s tomb during military parades – for clues about Kremlin leadership struggles and their implications for our security. 

A similar phenomenon is underway at the moment regarding  China’s secretive Communist hierarchy. Purges of senior military officers believed to be loyal to the current Chinese “emperor,” Xi Jinping, his recent, protracted absences – both physical and from the state-controlled media, and rumors of his ill-health are feeding speculation he may soon be toppled from power.

A timely webinar today will assess whether Xi’s days as absolute dictator are indeed numbered. And, either way, whether the advanced state of his preparations for a shooting war means that we are at a moment of acute danger – and what’s our appropriate response. 

Join us at noon Eastern Time at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump has declared “the 12-Day war is over.” But what about the truly “endless war” perpetrated by the Iranian mullahs against us and Israel when they came to power forty-six years ago?  

It would be more accurate to say hostilities have paused, consistent with Islam’s Sharia doctrine. It dictates that adherents like Iran’s leaders can only interrupt the jihad they must wage to achieve Sharia’s triumph worldwide if defeat is imminent and to buy time to regroup, rearm and renew the fighting when they can prevail. 

A VictoryCo.org briefing at noon Eastern Time today will scrutinize the Iranian regime’s ongoing bellicose rhetoric and actions – including a top ayatollah’s religious order to assassinate President Trump. To actually end its endless war, Israel must finish the job by eliminating the mullahocracy, thus affording the Iranian people a chance to Free Iran.

This is Frank Gaffney