Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Millions of Americans reelected Donald Trump in response to the lies they were told and the damage inflicted on them by officials during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By joining forces with Bobby Kennedy, Jr. and embracing “Make America Healthy Again,” Mr. Trump gave hope there would not only be accountability for previous malfeasance but

no repetition of it.

Now, however, we are witnessing an effort to manufacture – literally – a new pandemic involving “avian influenza,” reportedly engineered through gain-of-function research in a

USDA lab in Georgia.

We remember our disastrous COVID-19 experiences and will not tolerate a repetition of man-made public health crises used to justify abuses of political power that result in renewed,

unconstitutional infringements on our liberties and needless loss

of life.

The Trump-Kennedy team has a mandate to protect and promote medical freedom and must begin doing so now.

This is Frank Gaffney.

On December 18 th , the New York Post featured the following headline: “Drones spotted near at least 17 military bases located next to Chinese-owned land in U.S.” What?!!!

The Biden administration has ignored, and in some cases, exacerbated the obvious threat posed by Chinese nationals buying up farmland and other real estate, even in proximity to sensitive national security sites.

At least seventeen such sites have lately had unidentified drones flying over them. While the reasonable conclusion is that the Chinese Communists are spying on our secret stuff, the drone overflights could also be dress rehearsals for actual attacks.

Incoming Trump Border Czar Tom Homan told Tucker Carlson recently that he thinks the Chinese – including 46,000 military age males now here illegally – are “trying to destroy this country.”

Now would be a good time to stop them from doing so.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

So much for wishful thinking that a Syria liberated from the monstrous Bashir Assad regime would become a pluralistic democracy if only an al Qaeda veteran named Abu Mohammed

al-Julani were fatuously transformed into a “moderate” politician and put in charge of the country.

 

In recent days, his designated terrorist group, known as HTS, and its Turkish enablers have made clear that their intentions are very different, witness the torching of Christmas trees, the

murderous destruction of a shrine holy to Alawites and genocidal attacks on Kurds – setting the stage for the same to be done to other minorities.

Joe Biden has effectively greenlighted such crimes against humanity and invited worse by lifting the 10 million dollar bounty on al-Julani’s head and beginning to provide funding to

his regime.We must jettison this formula for far worse to come in Syria,

and beyond.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Nearly two years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited his Chinese counterpart, Communist Emperor Xi Jinping. They announced a “no-limits partnership” and the intention of changing the world.

Shortly thereafter, the first fruits of this toxic arrangement were manifested in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Ever since, the question has been: What else do these tyrants have in mind? 

 

As 2024 ends, the answer now pretty clearly is serial strategic arson leading to global conflagration. I call it “World War Xi.” 

 

It has already resulted in the wholesale destruction of Ukraine and the invasion of Israel leading to regional war throughout the Middle East. And the prospect that the Korean peninsula, Guyana, Taiwan and even our home front will be set afire next year cannot be ruled out.

Tragically, Joe Biden’s bequest to Donald Trump and America is a world of hurt.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

As we freely and joyously celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, it’s easy to forget that many millions of our co-religionists around the world risk severe persecution and even death to do the same. That’s especially so in Sharia-supremacist Muslim nations that systematically oppress Christians.

One such nation is Turkey. And the determination of its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to create a new Ottoman empire-style caliphate is threatening to renew – most immediately in Syria – the Turks’ practice of genocide against Christians and other minorities, like the Kurds.

It's unconscionable that what passes for the Biden administration has just removed a 10 million dollar bounty on Turkey’s top jihadist surrogate in Syria, Abu Mohammed al-Julani – effectively endorsing his dominion and that of his patron over all non-Muslims there and greenlighting their future operations against Jordan and Israel.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

President-elect Donald Trump just gave America a Christmas present. In a video statement issued by the transition team yesterday, he denounced the World Health Organization as a “corrupt globalist scam” substantially bankrolled by the United States, but “controlled by China” and an “utter failure on COVID.”

In the face of ongoing efforts by the WHO to crush our sovereignty and liberties – including by censoring our free speech, Mr. Trump affirmed his determination to terminate U.S. membership in the organization.

He also pledged to work to create a new voluntary arrangement whereby nations could collaborate on public health matters without surrendering their sovereign authority over emergencies.

Our Sovereignty Coalition has been making the case for such actions for nearly two years. We commend the incoming President for defying, defunding and departing the WHO and encourage other nations to follow his lead.

This is Frank Gaffney.

President-elect Donald Trump yesterday sounded an alarm about a very serious threat to our national security and commercial interests arising from the current status of the strategic Panama Canal.

While Mr. Trump cited concerns about Panama’s exorbitant charges imposed on U.S. military and commercial shipping, he also directly addressed the question of who controls the

waterway we built.

And with good reason. In Panama, as in much of Latin America, the Chinese Communists have secured key real estate – usually under the pretense of business operations – that can be used to

project power. Their ports at both ends of the Panama Canal could easily deny our warships’ or others’ transit, or even shut it down.

It's high time this yawning problem – and the larger issue of hostile foreigners’ penetration of our hemisphere – be front and center in our national security planning and operations.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Turkey’s Islamist proxies have seized most of Syria. Now it wants an end to U.S. and other international sanctions on an al Qaeda-linked group controlling much of that long-suffering country. Those include a 10 million dollar bounty on its leader, known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, for the murder of Americans, among others.

A multi-national delegation is in Damascus today, presumably for that purpose. After all, the Biden administration lavished money and arms on another bunch of Sharia-supremacists with American blood their hands when the Taliban seized Afghanistan.

Acceding to the Turks’ plans to have jihadists next dominate post-Assad Syria would help them create a neo-Ottoman empire there and far beyond. To that end, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is preparing to exterminate Syria’s Kurds and possibly others.

We must stand squarely against, not effectively greenlight, such further crimes against humanity.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The Biden administration committed yesterday to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases by 66 percent over the next decade.

You might be forgiven for thinking that whoever’s running our country at the moment didn’t get the memo that their team lost the election, with voters soundly repudiating its radical policies with respect to climate change and the rest of the left’s wrecking operation against America.

Indeed, as a powerful webinar conducted Tuesday by our Committee on the Present Danger: China made clear, the outgoing administration is seemingly doing everything it can to undermine, or at least countermand, the mandate Donald Trump is supposed to begin fulfilling a month from tomorrow.

The bottom line is that Team Biden is behaving as though it isn’t going anywhere. The question occurs: Is it deliberately fostering chaos-inducing conditions, here and abroad, calculated to postpone the inauguration?

This is Frank Gaffney.