Secure Freedom Minute

Yesterday, Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America raised $4.4 billion for a Pentagon-designated “Chinese military company operating in the United States.” Most Americans might be astonished that there are any such companies – let alone that Wall Street is so indifferent to the national security implications that it is massively enriching one.

The company in question is called CATL. It’s the world’s largest electric battery manufacturer and reportedly is putting them in Chinese submarines, increasing their lethality – meaning the death of Americans in the event of a shooting war.

Messrs. Dimon and Moynihan are, thereby, not only aiding and abetting a “foreign adversary.” They have violated President Trump’s vitally needed “America First Investment Policy” and created a precedent for doing so via Hong Kong that threatens to make a mockery of his commonsensical effort to end such underwriting of our enemy. 

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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

The passing of Dr. Michael Ledeen at any time would be a terrible loss for our country. His myriad brilliant books and countless essays on foreign policy amounted to a national treasure.

Surpassingly invaluable were his analyses of the regime that has misruled the people of Iran and threatened ours for over four decades. He tirelessly argued against negotiating with, and thereby legitimizing and even propping up, the mullahs in favor of helping long-suffering Iranians remove them from power, often exhorting that we do so “faster.”

Such counsel is especially needed now as the Trump team actively pursues yet-another “deal” with the ayatollahs. Michael would likely urge Israel to exercise the only option that can actually keep them from getting the Bomb: namely, disrupting the regime’s security apparatus, enabling the Iranian people to liberate themselves, and do it faster.  

So should we.

The atheistic Marxist Chinese Communist Party has long sought to destroy religion in China and, most especially, the Roman Catholic Church. In 2018, the Vatican became complicit in the CCP’s crimes against Chinese believers and their clergy, churches and Bible – all of which Pope Francis studiously ignored.  

The deal whereby this betrayal was institutionalized remains secret. But revulsion about its repercussions for persecuted Catholics in China, and other Christians, Falun Gong, Muslims and Buddhists rocked the Conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV instead of the odds-on favorite who negotiated the agreement, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. 

On May 24th, the new pope will preside over the International Day of Prayer for the Church in China. He can answer the prayers of millions there, and countless more worldwide, by repudiating the odious accord that betrayed them and religious freedom. Join them at RepealtheDeal.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

On August 15, 2016, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered perhaps the most clear-eyed speech ever given by such a political figure about the grave threat posed by, and the necessity of countering, “Radical Islamic Terrorism.” He condemned its animating ideology rooted in “Sharia law,” which he promised to use “ideological warfare” to defeat.

Mr. Trump pledged “a new approach, which must be shared by both parties in America, by our allies overseas, and by our friends in the Middle East…to halt the spread of Radical Islam.”

That approach is especially needed now, following his trip to Qatar – the nation whose enormous wealth is relentlessly weaponized to spread Radical Islam and the Sharia-supremacism at its core. Ditto his sanctions-ending meeting with a Syrian president who was – until recently – a leader of al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

Paging Candidate Trump.

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President Donald Trump is making a gigantic bet on a remade Middle East. The massive weapons sales he has announced to Saudi Arabia and others that may be in the offing with additional regional states, to say nothing of his termination of sanctions on and possible normalization of relations with Syria might make sense in a region transformed by two other developments.

First, Iran has genuinely ceased to be a threat to all of its neighbors, and us, by being denuclearized, ending the regime’s support for terrorism and terminating its proxy wars.

And second, Israel has decisively defeated its enemies – and ours – and re-emerged as America’s powerful, secure and valued ally. 

As a practical matter, however, those two conditions can only emerge if the Iranian people have been liberated from the mullahocracy that brutally oppresses them and threatens the rest of us. 

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Overshadowed by news yesterday of progress by the Trump team in securing more reciprocal trade arrangements with the Chinese Communist Party were reports that top Wall Street firms are doubling down on the CCP’s wildly unreciprocated access to our capital markets.

At issue is fundraising that Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America are determined to do for what the Pentagon has determined is a “Chinese military company operating in the United States.” Known as CATL, this conglomerate makes electric batteries for consumer vehicles. Its batteries are also making China’s submarines more lethal.

House CCP Committee Chairman John Moolinaar has explicitly warned Dimon and Moynihan to abandon the CATL deal. By refusing to do so, they must now be subject to extensive document disclosures and, ideally – given the harm they are causing to the national security – public repudiation, as well. 

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Even as the United States was negotiating yesterday with Iranian diplomats to effect their country’s denuclearization, Iran’s regime was putting on a show of its undiminished enmity with mobs chanting “death to America.” 

The man most especially, and quite literally, in the mullahs’ crosshairs is President Donald Trump. They have for some time had assassination squads inside this country with orders to kill him and several of his former senior subordinates. 

This week, incredibly, the President is scheduled to visit three Middle Eastern nations – Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar – that are awash with such Iranian operatives and/or Muslim Brotherhood-tied jihadists itching to murder him. What could possibly go wrong?

In short, any single thing and Donald Trump is coming home in a box.

Please call the White House at 202-456-1111 and urge the President to cancel his trip now.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The election of Peruvian-American Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV is a fresh start for the Vatican. Or is it? 

An early test of whether this papacy will amount to more of the same will be if the new pontiff continues the worst legacy of Pope Francis – namely, his toxic secret deal with the Chinese Communist Party.

A damning documentary available for free at RepealtheDeal.org makes clear that the CCP has weaponized such legitimization by the Vatican to intensify its destructive domination of Catholics, their churches, their Bible and other people of faith. 

In short, Pope Leo’s decision will determine whether the Church will serve Jesus Christ – or a literal anti-Christ figure: China’s dictator Xi Jinping, who is determined to be treated as a god, especially by faithful Christians.

The world needs a new pope, not Francis 2.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Eighty years ago today, the Second World War in Europe ended. Amidst celebrations of the anniversary, there’s widespread cognitive dissonance – psychologists’ term for an inability to perceive what one doesn’t want to see.

European elites in particular profess concerns about the possibility of another invasion of their lands, this time by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They bemoan President Trump’s purported diminished commitment to Europe’s security in light of Chinese preparations for war that our Indo-Pacific commander recently described as at a “rapid boil.”

The truth is that Europe has already been invaded by millions of illegal immigrants best described as Sharia-supremacists for their attachment to Islam’s totalitarian code which requires that its adherents engage in jihad and conquest. Europe’s collective failure to address – and mitigate – this threat may mean the next victory there will be celebrated by freedom’s enemies, not its friends.

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Bloomberg reports that two of Wall Street’s biggest firms have doubled-down on their intention to help raise at least $7 billion dollars for a Chinese military company helping the People’s Liberation Army prepare to kill Americans. 

Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America exemplify the indifference of too many in the U.S. financial sector about national security. Evidently, they’re determined to help enable electric battery-manufacturer CATL’s making Chinese conventional submarines a more lethal threat to our naval forces and personnel.

House CCP Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar has warned the companies to drop the CATL deal and SEC Chairman Paul Atkins to stop such corporate enabling of our enemy in violation of President Trump’s “America First Investment Policy.” 

These material risks are not being properly disclosed to investors, greatly compounding the treacherous malfeasance of JPMorgan and Bank of America.

This is Frank Gaffney.