Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Patriotic Americans in Michigan have been fighting to protect their part of the U.S. heartland from being despoiled and possibly weaponized by Gotion, a company that not only works for the Chinese Communist Party. It is a CCP enterprise, through and through.

For example, 500 employees of the parent company that wholly owns Gotion’s American subsidiary were recently shown visiting Party landmarks in People’s Liberation Army uniforms, vowing to give their lives for the CCP. 

Incredibly, Michigan’s governor and state legislature have insisted on giving Gotion over $700 million in subsidies, tax credits and other inducements to establish a lithium battery plant in a pristine part of the state. 

That amounts, in short, to yet another case of American elites blithely funding our mortal enemy’s installation of a ticking environmental, if not actually a literal time-bomb here.

Stop Gotion now. 

 This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Peter Navarro is among the most brilliant of American patriots and most clear-eyed and impactful of former public servants. Notably, he helped President Trump execute a desperately needed corrective to U.S.-China policy after five decades of reckless “engagement” and appeasement. 

It's a travesty that Dr. Navarro has been convicted of contempt for the January 6th Committee for refusing to respond to its subpoenas for information properly covered by presidential “executive privilege.” This conviction was virtually inevitable once the presiding judge precluded such a defense.

In fact, the only people who don’t have contempt for that embarrassing congressional exercise in unchecked political warfare are participants in and beneficiaries of its kangaroo- court antics.

It adds insult to injury that Peter Navarro’s prosecution is the latest manifestation of the serial weaponization of the Justice Department and judiciary against Team Biden’s opponents. 

Enough already.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Elon Musk’s high-end electric vehicle company, Tesla, manufactures lots of cars in Communist China. For some time though, the regime there has disallowed Teslas on or near military installations. Now, the ban is reportedly being extended to other areas of the country.

Evidently, the reason for such restrictions is that the Chinese Communist Party fears these cars can be mobile electronic intelligence collection platforms. And they should know, given that they not only build them, but have surely expropriated Musk’s proprietary technology long ago. 

Presumably, therefore, the CCP is able to use Teslas – probably including the company’s cars built elsewhere – to spy not only on the vehicles’ owners here, but targets of interest throughout the United States. 

Who needs spy balloons when American drivers can be unwittingly enlisted to conduct espionage for our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party?

This is Frank Gaffney.

Xi Van Fleet is a Foreign-born American Patriot. In 2021, she prominently opposed the indoctrination and weaponization of our children in Northern Virginia public schools reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution she lived through in Mao’s China. 

Ms. Van Fleet is now warning that cultural revolutionaries here are using Maoist tactics to take down the party in power’s political opponents. She knows from hard, first-hand experience, that what is being done today to former President Trump and to his Make America Great Again movement will not be confined to those immediate targets.

Xi Van Fleet attests that even those currently cheering on the prosecutions of Donald Trump and his allies will inevitably find themselves in the cultural Marxists’ crosshairs. Possibly literally. 

We must indict and prosecute the Chinese Communist Party and its friends – before they do the same to all of us. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

The Senate’s recess is over and its agenda includes the nomination of General C.Q. Brown to be America’s top military officer. Here are five reasons he should be rejected:

First, with him as the Air Force’s Chief of Staff, its strength has declined from “marginal” to “very weak” – grounds for termination, not promotion.

Second, Gen. Brown embraces the cultural Marxist agenda of Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It’s destroying America’s armed forces. 

Third, on his watch, the Air Force Academy has indoctrinated his service’s future leaders with that anti-American, racist and divisive ideology.

Fourth, Gen. Brown is a former fighter pilot, but not the warrior commander we need at the moment.

And fifth, that’s imperative because Communist China is preparing for war. Our troops must do the same, starting with the rejection of General Brown.

Tell your Senators: RejectGeneralBrown.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

On the day set aside to honor those who labor in America, here’s a modest proposal: Let’s clearly lift up not just the millions of our countrymen and women purportedly represented by what have become virulently leftist unions, but the vastly larger number us who are not. 

For starters, let’s take a page out of the Left’s playbook and rename Labor Day. How about calling it instead “All American Workers Day.”  

This would explicitly recognize everyone who works for the common good, unlike the current holiday which generally emphasizes those whose dues support labor organizations. That’s especially desirable since, unlike most of their American members, many of those unions are deeply hostile to this nation.

Going forward, let us celebrate, and thereby encourage, love of country and all those who work to make America a stronger, more prosperous and freer nation.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is best known for his years as a successful football coach. Today, he’s running what may be the most important defensive play of his career.

Coach Tuberville is blocking Senate approval of promotions of hundreds of military personnel over the Biden administration’s politicization of our armed forces. Sparked by its federal funding for abortions, his “hold” is now addressing as well the longstanding Obama-Biden agenda of effecting a cultural Marxist “transformation” of the military.

Consequently, the Senate has a chance to consider whether a general who champions that toxic agenda should become the nation’s top officer. “Coach’s” efforts have just been endorsed by presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, the latest in a growing number opposed to General C.Q. Brown’s nomination to become the next Joint Chiefs Chairman – a stance everyone else in the field and the Senate should support. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

It’s not exactly surprising that a man notorious for plagiarism turns out to be a serial liar. Still, the magnitude of Joe Biden’s betrayals of the public trust is arguably unprecedented in American politics and it’s hard to overstate the associated damage.

For example, the truth is that Biden did not win 81 million legal votes in 2020. He was intimately involved in his son Hunter’s influence peddling with, among others, Chinese intelligence. And the number of aliens coming illegally across our open border has not declined.

Now it seems such corrosive mendacity has corrupted even official statistics about the state of the U.S. economy. The Heritage Foundation’s E.J. Antoni warns that successive, positive jobs reports have subsequently been dramatically corrected downwards – suggesting deliberate manipulation for political purposes.

His congenital lying is yet another reason why Joe must go.

This is Frank Gaffney.

As a devastating Hurricane Idalia bears down on Florida’s Gulf Coast, the metaphor of a “perfect storm” should be top of mind. A Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar will make clear today that a convergence of very dangerous, albeit non-meteorological, forces could put our entire nation at risk. 

These include a growing number of Biden administration actions that threaten Americans’ freedoms and seem calculated to infuriate them. Government agencies have been increasingly weaponized to surveil, control and prosecute any tempted to respond to apparently deliberate official provocations.

Add the recent, unopposed illegal “immigration” of thousands of apparent Chinese special forces and the stage seems set for attacks here that might be perpetrated by a foreign enemy, but blamed on patriots instigating a “civil war” that must, then, be violently suppressed.  

You have a need-to-know. Get briefed at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Not since the abject defeat entailed in Joe Biden’s surrender of Afghanistan has there been a more humiliating moment for our nation than the spectacle of no fewer than four U.S. Cabinet officers in a row dispatched to Beijing to appease the Chinese Communist Party. 

The fourth, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, has compounded the damage by pretending that we can separate bilateral commercial relations from national security concerns exacerbated by Xi Jinping’s explicit preparations for a war that will almost certainly embroil us. 

Team Biden is making yet-another disastrous strategic error without public knowledge, let alone congressional assent. It is removing sanctions, sharing science and technology, encouraging U.S. investments and affording the CCP influence over our export control policies. 

The inevitable practical effect is to prop up, empower and embolden our mortal enemy on the eve of conflict. 

That amounts to treason.  

This is Frank Gaffney.