Secure Freedom Minute

President Donald Trump’s meeting today with King Abdullah of Jordan has the potential to transform the Middle East. The host has rightly concluded that thanks to the war Hamas terrorists started fifteen months ago, Gaza is simply uninhabitable. If the visitor – who, like rulers across the region, professes a commitment to the Palestinian people – prioritizes alleviating their unsustainable circumstances by granting them at least temporary refugee status, a festering humanitarian disaster and a flashpoint for wider war can be eliminated.

President Trump deserves great credit for refusing to do the easy thing, namely continue policies towards Gaza specifically and the Palestinians more generally that have demonstrably failed. His ultimatum giving Hamas until noon on Saturday to release all hostages and insistence that Gazans cease being effectively held hostage as well affords Abdullah an opportunity to be a catalyst for peace.

Seize the day.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The Chinese Communist Party remains in power today significantly thanks to the lies it tells its people and the rest of us. These include, for example, providing patently false information about its country’s economic growth, losses due to COVID-19, and military expenditures.

Cooking the books was also a feature of Joe Biden’s presidency, a man some experts describe as “a controlled asset of the Chinese Communist Party.”

For instance, Heritage Foundation labor statistics expert E.J. Antoni says, among numerous other falsehoods, the Biden administration systematically inflated – and subsequently lowered – the official monthly jobs growth data by an average of over 600,000 new hires.

Thank God, American voters were not fooled by such outrageous betrayals of the public trust. Otherwise, we would likely be living here under a regime that practiced a lot of other CCP techniques, including outright repression, as well.

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History’s worst crime against humanity is taking place on our watch. Considerably more Christians than the entire population of the United States are being heavily persecuted worldwide simply because they follow Jesus.

Even here, the Biden administration exhibited anti-Christian bias, a precursor to possible discrimination and, ultimately, persecution. Candidate Donald Trump pledged to protect Christians, notably in Armenia and Egypt. And yesterday, he issued an executive order to end bias against them as part of a larger effort to enforce the laws assuring “the freedom of Americans…to practice their faith in peace.”

President Trump’s commitment to “end the anti-Christian weaponization of government…in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals and public squares” is both needed and welcome. Now, let us pray he’ll use his power to prevail on other governments – like those of China, Turkey, Nigeria, and India – to do the same.

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The U.S. Agency for International Development has been closed down by the Trump team.

Those who believe such aid can be an important tool for countering the immense influence operations of China, Qatar, and others working against our interests have always faced widespread public sentiment that our money would be better spent at home. Now, they must contend with growing evidence that USAID was a massive political slush fund for various radical leftist causes abroad and even here.

Revelations that the agency, for example, underwrote a left-wing domestic media outlet, Politico, celebrities’ visits to support Ukraine’s president, “Woke” indoctrination, and feeding Hezbollah argue powerfully for a complete reboot.

If assistance that can be an important foreign policy tool suffers enduring harm, the blame will rest squarely with those responsible for such abuses – like Biden’s “radical lunatic” former AID Director, Samantha Power.

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu's meeting yesterday may rank in historical, strategic importance alongside those of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the early years of World War II and the collaborations of Ronald Reagan with Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II at the Cold War's zenith.

In each case, "special relationships" were forged that empowered embattled leaders to stave off and defeat their times' "existential threats to freedom." The partnership on display during Tuesday's White House press availability, rooted in a shared commitment to victory over totalitarians seeking the destruction of both countries, can – and must – do the same in ours.

Most immediately, President Trump's common sense declaration that Gaza has become uninhabitable sets the stage for the relocation of its populace and the first decisive loss contemporary Sharia supremacists have suffered in what is truly their "endless war" against Judeo-Christian civilization.

This is Frank Gaffney.

One of the most important reasons Donald Trump is president today is the appeal of his commitment in the course of the 2024 campaign to work with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make America healthy again.

This was a voting issue for millions of us deeply troubled about the pharmaceutical, medical, food, and regulatory factors that are making us sick and not promoting wellness.

Mr. Kennedy – a tireless champion for correcting what ails public health in this country – is President Trump’s choice to head the massive federal Department of Health and Human Services. His nomination faces a critical vote today in the Senate Finance Committee.

In the end, it will likely come down to one Republican Senator, Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy. He is a medical doctor whose constituents are overwhelmingly urging a yes vote.

 

Let us pray that he will heed their call.

This is Frank Gaffney.

It’s hard to overstate the importance of this week’s meeting between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If they stand together, as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill did in World War II’s darkest days when Britain was otherwise alone, Israel will – with our material support – defeat our mutual enemies.

If a united front is not the outcome, those enemies will be convinced they’ll destroy not only the Jewish State but – in due course – America, as well.

The regrouping, rearming, and preparations for renewed attacks on Israel now being undertaken by Hamas and other Sharia- supremacists cannot continue without dire consequences for both our nations and the Free World, more generally.

We must, therefore, pray that mistakes like Biden’s calamitous Gaza “ceasefire” are reversed in favor of a shared commitment to accept, in the words of Douglas MacArthur, “no substitute for victory.”

This is Frank Gaffney.

For decades, we have been told Communist China is just an economic competitor. We were blithely assured that, if we engaged with and enriched the PRC by transferring there much of our manufacturing capability, supply chains and investment dollars, it would become more like us.

Arguably, in the history of the world, there has never been amore colossal strategic mistake.

We’ve transformed Communist China, alright, and now it’s a powerful, mortal enemy upon whom we critically depend even though the CCP’s stated goal is to destroy this country.

That’s the context in which we must consider the introduction this week of China’s DeepSeek, a free artificial intelligence model with the potential to engage – and addict – millions of Americans, even as we struggle to break TikTok’s grip on half our population.

Learn more at our PresentDangerChina.org webinar today at 2 p.m. Eastern Time.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The Chinese Communist Party has long waged “unrestricted warfare” to destroy without kinetic fighting a more powerful America.

This week, the CCP did immense, if not decisive, damage by effectively attacking the U.S. artificial intelligence industry. With the roll-out of DeepSeek, the Chinese Communists have introduced a free AI large language model that surpasses the performance of existing American offerings like ChatGPT. The impact was immediate, and devastating, on the share value of U.S. competitors. Technology manufacturer Nvidia lost 600 billion dollars.

With half our country literally hooked on China’s TikTok political warfare app, the danger posed by DeepSeek and other, inbound Chinese AI systems can hardly be overstated.

An extremely timely webinar will examine the implications of this latest act of CCP unrestricted warfare and the way forward Friday at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

In 1983, Ronald Reagan challenged this insane policy. But his successors consistently limited our anti-missile capabilities, so much so that we remain essentially unprotected against all but the smallest attacks.

Fortunately, Donald Trump has promised a "revolution of commonsense." In a world where Israel has suffered massive missile attacks and defenses against them are obviously needed, he has commonsensically declared America will have its equivalent of Israel's Iron Dome.

Mr. Trump must make the centerpiece of an American Titanium Dome space-based sensors and interceptors that are the most effective and least costly way to dissuade missile-wielding enemies from attacking us and, if necessary, to prevent them from doing so.

This is Frank Gaffney.