Secure Freedom Minute

Senate Republicans will vote today to select their chamber’s next leader. Who they pick will have a profound effect on whether the mandate Donald Trump received – which, among other things resulted in the election of several new GOP Senators and the flipping of control of the Congress’ upper house – will translate into transformative legislative successes essential to making America great again. 

Unfortunately, two of the three candidates – Senators John Thune of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas – are lieutenants of the longtime, outgoing top Republican, Mitch McConnell. Unlike the third contender – Florida Senator Rick Scott who ran against McConnell previously and is closely aligned with President-elect Trump and his agenda – Thune and Cornyn will reliably do the bidding of the virulently anti-Trump McConnell. 

As it happens, McConnell has long been deeply compromised by the Chinese Communist Party. It certainly wants to see Trump fail. And Senators casting secret ballots for his proxies will effectively be voting to put the CCP first, not America. 

This if Frank Gaffney

President-elect Trump has begun putting into place his Cabinet and a common denominator is that the emerging national security team shares his longstanding conviction that the Chinese Communist Party is not a competitor. It is a determined and increasingly dangerous enemy.

While nominees to some key positions remain to be formally announced, Mr. Trump’s choices for Secretary of State, Senator Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor, Rep. Mike Waltz, and Secretary of Homeland Security, Gov. Kristi Noem, are on record about the CCP threat.

If complemented by a similarly minded Defense Secretary, Director of National Intelligence and CIA Director, Donald Trump will have the most robust team with regard to the era’s “existential threat to freedom” since Ronald Reagan’s first-term line-up of Judge Bill Clark, Cap Weinberger, Bill Casey and Jeanne Kirkpatrick.

We will doubtless hear shortly about the rest of the national security appointments. I pray - and expect - that those nominees will be of a mind with the President and his selections to date on the peril posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

A position that is often not understood to be a key part of that cohort, however, is the Treasury Secretary. During his first presidency, Mr. Trump was saddled with a Wall Street denizen named Stephen Mnuchin who worked assiduously to protect the Chinese from efforts by other administration officials to curtail the suicidal practice of allowing even CCP-controlled corporations building weapons to kill us to raise funds in our capital markets.

The second Trump presidency – and our nation – require a Secretary of the Treasury who also truly puts America First and is a strong and effective champion of the national security, not of the greed-driven behavior of too many in the financial sector that endangers it.

Grant Newsham, Senior Research Fellow, Japan Forum for Strategic Studies

Today a grateful nation honors the service of its military veterans. While they all deserve our appreciation, I want to pay special tribute to some of our most unsung heroes.

The Biden administration forced servicemen and women to submit to what turns out to have been an unapproved, experimental and dangerous COVID-19 gene therapy, not an authorized, effective and safe one. That made the order to “take the jab” unlawful.

Many thousands – including large numbers of our special operators and other superb warriors – refused to follow that illegal order, most on the basis of religious objections. Typically, their requests for exemptions were rejected and they were discharged, dishonorably or otherwise, their careers terminated prematurely, their reputations damaged, their post-service employment opportunities jeopardized. 

Despite court rulings aimed at correcting this outrageous abuse of power by the Pentagon leadership, some of these veterans still await justice, including those represented by my friends at the American Freedom Law Center. 

And today, the Director General of the World Health Organization – whose terrible prescriptions during the COVID pandemic were substantially responsible for the mandatory so-called “vaccines” – is expected today to announce yet another bid for enhanced power and world government. 

Our veterans who have effectively served, and certainly suffered, in the war for our sovereignty and medical freedoms deserve our special appreciation and strong support on this Veterans Day – and in the forthcoming administration committed to making America healthy again and rejecting the WHO’s and other globalists’ toxic agendas. 

President-elect Trump has begun putting into place his Cabinet and a common denominator is that the emerging national security team shares his longstanding conviction that the Chinese Communist Party is not a competitor. It is a determined and increasingly dangerous enemy.

While nominees to some key positions remain to be formally announced, Mr. Trump’s choices for Secretary of State, Senator Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor, Rep. Mike Waltz, and Secretary of Homeland Security, Gov. Kristi Noem, are on record about the CCP threat. 

If complemented by a similarly minded Defense Secretary, Director of National Intelligence and CIA Director, Donald Trump will have the most robust team with regard to the era’s “existential threat to freedom” since Ronald Reagan’s first-term line-up of Judge Bill Clark, Cap Weinberger, Bill Casey and Jeanne Kirkpatrick.

We will doubtless hear shortly about the rest of the national security appointments. I pray - and expect - that those nominees will be of a mind with the President and his selections to date on the peril posed by the Chinese Communist Party. 

A position that is often not understood to be a key part of that cohort, however, is the Treasury Secretary. During his first presidency, Mr. Trump was saddled with a Wall Street denizen named Stephen Mnuchin who worked assiduously to protect the Chinese from efforts by other administration officials to curtail the suicidal practice of allowing even CCP-controlled corporations building weapons to kill us to raise funds in our capital markets. 

The second Trump presidency – and our nation – require a Secretary of the Treasury who also truly puts America First and is a strong and effective champion of the national security, not of the greed-driven behavior of too many in the financial sector that endangers it.

Today a grateful nation honors the service of its military veterans. While they all deserve our appreciation, I want to pay special tribute to some of our most unsung heroes.

The Biden administration forced servicemen and women to submit to what turns out to have been an unapproved, experimental and dangerous COVID-19 gene therapy, not an authorized, effective and safe one. That made the order to “take the jab” unlawful.

Many thousands – including large numbers of our special operators and other superb warriors – refused to follow that illegal order, most on the basis of religious objections. Typically, their requests for exemptions were rejected and they were discharged, dishonorably or otherwise, their careers terminated prematurely, their reputations damaged, their post-service employment opportunities jeopardized. 

Despite court rulings aimed at correcting this outrageous abuse of power by the Pentagon leadership, some of these veterans still await justice, including those represented by my friends at the American Freedom Law Center. 

And today, the Director General of the World Health Organization – whose terrible prescriptions during the COVID pandemic were substantially responsible for the mandatory so-called “vaccines” – is expected today to announce yet another bid for enhanced power and world government. 

Our veterans who have effectively served, and certainly suffered, in the war for our sovereignty and medical freedoms deserve our special appreciation and strong support on this Veterans Day – and in the forthcoming administration committed to making America healthy again and rejecting the WHO’s and other globalists’ toxic agendas. 

Donald Trump's election has created an opportunity for the desperately needed reboot in foreign policies as well as domestic ones in order to take appropriate corrective action. Of course, it is essential to have an accurate understanding of the magnitude of the problems Mr. Trump is now confronting, as well as the options for fixing those problems.

Take for example, the state of the Western Hemisphere, despite its obvious importance to the security as well as the economy of our country. Latin America has generally been subjected to, at best, benign neglect by successive US administrations, both Republican and Democrat. Our enemies have filled the vacuum.

Notably, the Chinese Communist Party has made huge headways in colonizing the region, creating ports, electric grids, and other critical infrastructure. Some of these assets owned as well as operated by the Chinese. The Russians are providing, among other things, advanced arms and Iran's regime and what remains of its foreign legion, Hezbollah, operate with impunity in key countries across Latin America.

Unfortunately, much of the rest of the world is aflame, thanks to what I call “World War Xi” – a product of the strategic arson at the hands of the Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and the ineptitude, or worse, the complicity of the outgoing Biden-Harris administration.

So, the temptation to give short shrift to nations and challenges closer to home will likely arise again. But we cannot safely ignore, let alone acquiesce to, the subversion and the capture of our neighborhood by hostile foreign powers in a manner President James Monroe proscribed 200 years ago.

The crushing victory by Donald Trump in the 2004 election is, as he himself noted, a miracle. It takes nothing away from the sustained and selfless work of the candidate, his team or his voters to say that this was, first and foremost, a product of the hand of God – and truly an answer to prayer.

As a result, our beloved country has been given another chance. A chance to get right once more with God. A chance to reaffirm and strengthen our constitutional Republic. A chance to rebuild public confidence in our institutions. And a chance to deter our enemies who are now on the march. 

All that must begin with a concerted effort to translate President Trump’s mandate – as evidenced, not least in his winning the popular vote – into dissuading the Biden-Harris administration from using its remaining weeks in office to undermine the next presidency by taking difficult-to-reverse policy actions. A prime example would be imposing UN or other sanctions on Israel and/or recognizing a non-existent Palestinian state. 

Our new President deserves a chance to translate his epic victory into corrective action. And he deserves – and requires – our strong support in doing so.

This is Frank Gaffney.

On this election day, I want to pray for America.

Dear God, Thank you for the privilege of being a citizen of this country at a time such as this and for granting us a say in who leads her and the policies that will determine how she fares in a perilous era.

Indeed, America faces challenges, both foreign and domestic, so great, my God, that only with Your grace and intervention can we be assured of restoring this nation, founded with Your blessing and – thanks to Your repeated, miraculous interventions – capable of serving You and advancing Your values.

Therefore, I ask in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, that You intervene once again on this election day by protecting our countrymen and women as they vote and by guiding them to preserve our Republic by reelecting President Donald Trump.

Amen.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

On this election day, I want to pray for America.

Dear God, Thank you for the privilege of being a citizen of this country at a time such as this and for granting us a say in who leads her and the policies that will determine how she fares in a perilous era.

Indeed, America faces challenges, both foreign and domestic, so great, my God, that only with your grace and intervention can we be assured of restoring this nation, founded with Your blessing and – thanks to Your repeated, miraculous interventions – capable of serving You and advancing Your values.

Therefore, I ask in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, that You intervene once again on this election day by protecting our countrymen and women as they vote and by guiding them to preserve our Republic by reelecting President Donald Trump.

Amen.  

This is Frank Gaffney.