Secure Freedom Minute

Pete Hegseth is a change agent in the Defense Department. Like most institutions, especially highly bureaucratic and hierarchical ones, the Pentagon is inherently resistant to major course-corrections. And few have been more dramatic than those being undertaken by the Trump administration after four years in which the military was subjected to unprecedented, highly politicized and debilitating “fundamental transformation.”

The new Secretary of Defense has been tasked with restoring the warrior ethos to our armed services. That means eliminating the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda that made promotions to leadership a function not of warfighting skills and achievement, but conformity with and championing of what amounts to cultural Marxism. 

At a moment when the prospect of a shooting war looms large, Pete Hegseth needs our support in clearing the Pentagon’s decks for action, not encouragement to those resisting the changes the times require. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

The passing of Pope Francis prompts an examination of his legacy and what it portends for Catholics and other Christians. An illustrative facet was his diplomacy with the Chinese Communist Party.

Since 2018, Francis has approved four deals with Xi Jinping’s regime. While they remain secret, their effects have been unmistakable. In short, they legitimized the CCP’s increasing domination, mutation and in some cases destruction of Catholic churches, icons, texts and doctrine. 

As part of their “Sinicization” of Christianity, the Chinese Communists have also increasingly made Xi the object of worship, appointed his bishops, barred children from attending mass, and harshly punished those who seek to continue practicing their faith in so-called underground churches.

Typical of Frances’ political proclivities, his legacy in China will be one of a radical leftist makeover of the Catholic Church at the expense of tradition and religious freedom. 

This is Frank Gaffney. 

Michigan Congressman John Moolenaar is a national treasure. He chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and works tirelessly to counter what the CCP calls its “unrestricted warfare” against us. 

Yesterday, Chairman Moolenaar took action. He wrote two of our country’s top financiers, JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan, and demanded that they stop their investment banks’ joint efforts to raise over $7 billion for a Chinese military and slave-labor exploiting company known as CATL. 

It is, as the Godfather would say, “an offer they can’t refuse.” Should Messrs. Dimon and Moynihan fail to disengage from thus “funding our own demise,” the chairman will require them to provide extensive documentation about this transaction that will expose the degree to which such “old friends” of China are knowingly betraying and endangering America. 

Bring it!

This is Frank Gaffney.

In less than a month, world government will be imposed on us indirectly, if not directly, thanks to a new pandemic treaty the World Health Organization finalized yesterday and plans to adopt and make legally binding in mid-May – with profound implications for public health, personal freedoms and national sovereignty.

If you liked how the COVID-19 crisis was handled – in large measure thanks to the incompetence and malfeasance of the WHO and the insidious influence of the perpetrator, the Chinese Communist Party, and the principal beneficiary, Big Pharma – you’re going to love this new world order.   

Among its consequences will be: universal health IDs, vaccine mandates, obligatory censorship, technology transfers, open-ended financial costs and the proliferation of viruses with the potential to cause pandemics – all “managed” by greatly empowered and unaccountable international bureaucrats. 

Sounds terrifying? Learn more and take action at SovereigntyCoalition.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, two senior advisors to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were physically escorted from the Pentagon and put on administrative leave, reportedly in connection with an investigation of leaks of sensitive national security information.

Both are among a small number of individuals who previously worked for organizations funded by an anti-Trump libertarian billionaire named Charles Koch. Unsurprisingly, his employees have been associated, like him, with foreign policies described as “restraint.” In practice, they often amount to “retreat,” or even “defeatism.”

Donald Trump resolved to avoid again hiring personnel opposed to his policies. Before returning to the White House, he actually declared that Koch alumni “need not apply” for jobs in his second administration. 

It would be a good idea to revisit the decisions that ignored the president’s sensible direction, and hire instead staff who – like his Cabinet – espouse robust America First policies.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Have you heard about “the Maryland man” improperly deported to El Salvador? If you haven’t, it’s not because the media isn’t working overtime to bring his case to your attention. 

Unfortunately, such reporting is an information operation. It reflects a determined effort to obscure the status of not only Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but others like him unlawfully present in the United States. 

Open-borders advocates and journalists have relentlessly transformed such illegal aliens into “undocumented immigrants,” then simply “migrants” and now residents of whatever American state they currently live in. 

U.S. judges twice determined Garcia is a member of El Salvador’s MS-13, which is a designated foreign terrorist organization, meaning he had to be deported. The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that a district judge here can’t compel his return from El Salvador. 

President Trump has a mandate to deport illegal aliens. Get it done. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

It seems we have reached an inflection point in the fight to adopt what President Trump has called an “America First Investment Policy”: Last week, two influential Wall Street financiers appear to have broken with their colleagues’ determination to continue investing in China first.

Friday morning, Shark Tank personality Kevin O’Leary objected to the unfairness of Communist Chinese companies enjoying privileged access to U.S. capital markets. He demanded that Paul Atkins, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s newly confirmed chairman, ensure that they instead comply with our laws and regulations – just as O’Leary’s companies and everybody elses’ must. 

Later that day, BlackRock chairman Larry Fink declared that “nefarious” Chinese companies should be delisted from our capital markets. If he now walks the walk, and divests his company’s vast holdings propping up Xi Jinping’s regime, we may finally stop underwriting our enemy. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

In May 2019, the Chinese Communist Party publicly declared a “People’s War” on the United States after decades of “unrestricted warfare” against us. Throughout, it has been building up the power and reach of its military, incredibly with American funding and technology. 

The CCP’s aggressive response to President Trump’s efforts to end its predatory trade practices have further underscored an insight millions of Americans gleaned from Xi Jinping’s COVID biological warfare attack: His regime is willing to use physical violence against us, as well.

That prospect compels us to take urgent stock of ways in which it might do so, and emerging vectors of attack. A PresentDangerChina.org webinar today will examine preparations the Chinese and their Russian allies are making to exploit the Arctic for this purpose – and President Trump’s urgent focus on the role played by Greenland and Canada in countering such threats.     

This is Frank Gaffney.

Public health officials insist that very young children and the elderly should keep being jabbed with so-called COVID-19 “vaccines.”

If we have learned anything from the pandemic, it is that there are real and still-metastasizing problems with putting such mRNA gene therapies into our bodies and that authorities who tell us to do so may have the best interests of Big Pharma in mind but not ours.

A crowd-sourced examination of Pfizer documents confirmed that COVID vax’s manufacturer knew it had serious – and sometimes deadly – design, quality control, and testing defects.

Now, a growing number of states are actively considering bringing criminal charges against former officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci for their diabolical roles in the pandemic and the associated, needless loss of life. Making America Healthy Again requires, among other things, accountability for those responsible for doing the opposite.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Seventy countries have responded to President Trump’s insistence on reciprocity in bilateral trade relations by seeking to negotiate with the United States. Communist China is not among them.

While the Chinese Communist Party left the door to negotiations open a crack, its overwhelming response is belligerent retaliation. Obviously, it hopes to avoid humiliating submission – and, if possible, to induce U.S. trade partners to join instead China’s exploitative mercantilist arrangements.

There’s another explanation: The CCP is at war with America. It makes no secret of seeking our destruction using pre-kinetic “unrestricted warfare,” notably including predatory trade. 

President Trump is right to apply high tariffs to accelerate our needed economic disengagement from such a foe and its weaponized supply chains. He must also enforce his “America First Investment Policy” and prevent Wall Street from further underwriting our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party. 

This is Frank Gaffney.