Secure Freedom Minute

Two words describe last night’s presidential debate: Elder abuse. 

President Biden’s alarming physical appearance, peculiar affect and robotic performance confirmed what’s long been discernable: The man is of an age and mental condition that disqualifies him from serving the next four years in the world’s most demanding job. 

And those who insist that he run again, and pretend he’s up to it, are not only abusing a senior citizen. They are deserving and endangering our country and its people.

 

Now, it seems just a matter of time before the inevitable happens: Joe Biden announces that he wants to spend more time with his family and Kamala Harris gets an offer she can’t refuse to spend more with hers. 

It will be a fascinating spectacle to see who gets served up instead. My guess is it will be the dreadful Michele Obama. 

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Tonight will see the earliest presidential debate in the history of such televised events. The timing raises the suspicion that, if President Biden’s widely documented cognitive disabilities are unmistakably on display, there will still be time for the Democratic Party to engineer a new ticket, replacing both him and his appalling vice president, Kamala Harris.

 

To be sure, the debate’s arrangements seem designed to prop up Mr. Biden. None of those advantages or, for that matter, the sort of chemical interventions that reportedly made his State of the Union address so odd, may matter if former President Trump calmly and persuasively exposes Biden’s deeply unpopular record.

 

That means, in particular, illuminating Joe Biden’s devastation of our  country’s economy, energy security, borders, and sovereignty and his submission to China and undermining of Israel – policies that appall most voters, and must be reversed.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed last night what has long been obvious. He told Sean Hannity, “The January 6 committee was, we think, wrongfully constituted. We think the work was tainted. We think that they may have very well covered up evidence and maybe even more nefarious activities.”

 

These findings draw on a rigorous investigation led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk into what was transparently an instrument for political warfare created by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. They discredit the Jan. 6 panel’s narrative about an “insurrection” in the Capitol. And they make utterly untenable Joe Biden’s lawfare against those accused of mounting such an assault or withholding executive privileged information about it. 

 

Mike Johnson says he’ll file an amicus brief supporting my friend Steve Bannon’s urgent request for the Supreme Court to keep him out of prison. Let us pray it does so.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

 

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy just declared “gun violence” a public health emergency. He wants “assault weapons” and magazines holding more than ten bullets banned.

 

Fortunately, for those of us committed to the principle of self-defense and the unalienable, God-given right to “own and bear arms,” our Constitution provides a bulwark against the government’s seizure of such arms. 

 

But Dr. Murthy’s declaration follows the adoption of a new treaty that could have profound implications for gun owners and other Americans. According to constitutional attorney Michael Farris, it would require the the United States to change its laws in order to create a “focal point” to comply with the World Health Organization’s directives. And WHO’s Director General considers gun violence to be a “public health emergency of international concern.”

 

The U.S. Senate must consider and reject this WHO treaty amending its International Health Regulations.   

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Roughly a fifth of the U.S. Senate is comprised of Democrats and Independents up for reelection this fall. Each of them may soon cast a vote that will illuminate their attitudes towards some of the most divisive issues of our time.

 

President Biden wants a radical leftist Oregon judge named Mustafa Taher Kasubhai to have a lifetime appointment to the U.S. District Court there. 

 

Never mind that he: embraces cultural Marxist identity politics; exemplifies his state’s soft-on-crime attitude towards the riots precipitated by Black Lives Matter in 2020; admires one its inspirations, a so-called “anti-racist” racist named Ibrahim X. Kendi;  and describes the United States as “Islamophobic” and Muslim assimilation as “erasure.” 

 

Any senator who believes a man with such toxic views should wield the power of a federal judge must henceforth be accountable for sharing them. Do yours? 

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

“Victims of jihad Unite.” That battle-cry should be heard globally as it represents the best hope for enabling people who are being persecuted by Sharia-supremacists – and those determined to spare them further harm – to join forces. 

 

The numbers are absolutely staggering. By some estimates, over 300 million Christians are experiencing “heavy persecution” – the vast majority of them at the hands of Muslims who adhere to Islam’s totalitarian Sharia code that commands them to practice jihad. 

 

Since October 7th, Jews in Israel and elsewhere have been subjected to similar murderous and other forms of jihadist persecution. The African-Jewish Alliance will be in Washington next week to help victims of jihad in Africa, Israel and beyond make common cause. It starts with making clear, and jointly resisting, the Islamic extremism that is the common-denominator behind so much of their shared suffering. 

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Half-a-world apart, two imminent conflicts are on the cusp of going critical. Communist China apparently is prepared to have Hezbollah – the foreign legion of its Mideast proxy, Iran – engage in a full-on war with Israel. And the Chinese military is itself now physically attacking Philippine vessels at a place called Second Thomas Shoal.

 

The United States has a direct interest in both of these crises. Our allies are under assault by their mortal enemies – and ours. Our priority should be on deterring further violence from being inflicted on America’s friends. The most sure way to accomplish that is for the United States to stand firmly alongside them.

 

Instead, the Biden administration has done everything possible to appease Iran’s mullahs and undermine Israel. And instead of visibly demonstrating solidarity with the Philippinos, it has been largely AWOL. 

 

Brace for impact.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

The arsonist tag-team of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are busily striking sparks into Asian tinderboxes. The Russian dictator’s current visit to North Korea comes amidst relentless provocations by Kim Jong-un against the South that could precipitate conflict there at any time. 

 

Meanwhile, Communist China is provoking a fight with the Philippines, clearly testing our treaty commitment to defend that key ally.

 

Should either, let alone both, of these acts of strategic arson precipitate actual conflagrations, the CCP may calculate that – together with ongoing ones in Ukraine and the Middle East – the time is right to seize Taiwan. If so, count on thousands of Chinese military personnel Joe Biden has let into this country lighting us up, as well.

 

An invaluable webinar at 2 p.m. ET today will examine what we must do about all this. Join us at presentdangerchina.org.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Team Biden is feverishly trying to deflect attention from its appalling record on border insecurity. It would have us believe that Joe Biden: is committed to keeping illegal aliens out of the country; has just taken important steps to do that; and is being thwarted by Republican failure at the insistence of Donald Trump to enact “bipartisan” legislation that would have made all the difference. 

 

This is but the latest evidence of two attributes of the Biden presidency: First, from the get-go, this administration has systematically destroyed our borders, deliberately allowing in at least ten million unvetted foreigners – many of them unaccompanied, fighting-age males. And second, it thinks Americans are too stupid to understand that reality. 

 

Biden is even expected to announce today that he’ll prevent via executive action the deportation of a half a million illegal aliens.  

 

Hold him accountable.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Scott Perry is one of the most formidable members of the U.S. House of Representatives. I am proud to call him a cherished personal friend.

 

Scott has devoted much of his life to public service as a Pennsylvania legislator and a combat pilot in the Army National Guard who retired after nearly four decades in uniform as a Brigadier General. 

 

He is, in short, exceedingly well equipped to serve on the House Intelligence Committee, to which he was appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson earlier this year.

 

The U.S. intelligence community is in need of serious congressional oversight as it has been weaponized against those Team Biden deems to be its political enemies. 

 

Committee Democrats fear that Scott Perry knows too much about this phenomenon. Actually, that and the rest of his lifetime of experience, make him a brilliant choice for the job. 

 

This is Frank Gaffney.