Secure Freedom Minute: Recent Episodes
Frank Gaffney
Remember the TV game show called “Let’s Make a Deal”? Contestants would choose one of three doors, hoping it concealed a great prize.
The present churning on Iran feels like that show. President Trump has faced two unpalatable options: Door One: Do nothing and, effectively assure the mullahs’ regime remains in place – including its covert nuclear weapons program. Or Door Two: Bomb a very hard Iranian nuclear target and become engaged military in another Mideast war.
Instead of giving the ayatollahs two more weeks to agree they won’t “get the Bomb,” which amounts to Door One, he should take Door Three: Require the mullahs’ true “unconditional surrender,” meaning the liberation of the Iranian people.
Anything less means victory for the Sharia-supremacists and ensures much more of the truly “endless war” they have waged against us from Iran for over forty years.
This is Frank Gaffney.
There’s a secret weapon in the campaign to end the mortal threat the Iranian regime poses to Israel, America and Western civilization: namely, the people of Iran.
After all, the mullahs’ Sharia-supremacist totalitarian misrule has impoverished, isolated and murdered them for over four decades.
In addition, the ruling ayatollahs believe they must bring back their messiah by initiating the Apocalypse, which would kill untold millions of Iranians, among others.
If empowered to liberate themselves, Iran’s people can do more to end the regime’s doomsday nuclear weapons program than any external power. So, we need to encourage and enable them to rise up.
Understandably, they’ll only take the immense risks of doing so if convinced Western deal-making with the regime won’t sell them out again. That means no further negotiations with the mullahs for any purpose other than their unconditional surrender.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Israel’s successful campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program, prevent its ballistic missiles and other weapons from attacking the Jewish State’s population centers and decimate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, military and intelligence leadership has given rise to an historic opportunity.
For the first time since 1979, when the ayatollahs imposed their apocalyptic and totalitarian Sharia-supremacist regime on the country’s highly cultured, capable and pro-Western population, the people of Iran have a real chance to liberate themselves.
That prospect increased immeasurably with President Trump’s immortal, two-word social media post yesterday. He said simply, “Unconditional Surrender.”
By signaling an end to negotiations with the mullahs for any other purpose, the Iranian people now can, and will, bring them down. They’ll need, of course, support in rejoining the civilized world. But that decisive victory is finally possible, at last.
Praise the Lord!
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Trump abruptly left the G-7 meeting to work on the conflict between Israel and Iran’s mullahs. Thankfully, he has explicitly said it’s not to pursue a ceasefire, whose practical effect would be to deny the decisive victory Israel’s security – and ours – requires.
Instead, Mr. Trump has said he’s working on “something bigger” and that he wants a real end to the Iranian nuclear threat, meaning Tehran “giving up entirely.”
Our superb “emergency briefing” yesterday showed why: The Iranian regime is committed to our destruction, not just Israel’s. It’s compelled by faith to lie in any negotiation. And it’ll use anything short of complete defeat to regroup, rearm and resume its war on Judeo-Christian civilization.
I pray the Trump team, and you, will go to the video tape at VictoryCo.org and help Israel achieve the only acceptable outcome – namely, decisive victory.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Israel and the Iranian mullahs are at war, precipitated by the prospect nuclear weapons might soon feature in ongoing strikes on Israeli civilian targets.
Will the United States do what it has done repeatedly in previous Mideast conflicts, namely, insist that the Jewish State suspend its military operations before achieving a decisive victory?
To his great credit, President Trump has thus far resisted calls to do so again to avoid a new “endless war.” In fact, the most endless war in memory is the forty-year one the Iranian mullahs have waged against Western Civilization. It will continue and intensify if they and their nuclear weapons program survive.
An emergency briefing at 2 p.m. today will explicate why Israel is absolutely right to insist on finishing the job and why it is in America’s vital interest that’s accomplished. Join us at VictoryCo.org
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Literally overnight, the Mideast was transformed. Israeli forces conducted air and missile attacks against Iran, having determined that its regime – which had long declared the intention to destroy Israel and had repeatedly tried to do so, both directly and through myriad proxies – was poised to “go nuclear.”
Most importantly, Israel’s preemptive, defensive strikes destroyed not only key parts of Iran’s vast nuclear weapons infrastructure, but the IRGC security apparatus that ran it and kept the mullahs in power.
It’s, of course, too early to declare a permanent victory. But we can say now: Praise the Lord!
Israel has validated, yet again, that she has not only the power but the will to crush her enemies, and ours. And so has been the Trump Doctrine, whereby America wants our allies to play such a role, and will help defend them when they do.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Welcome to perhaps the most consequential grassroots-driven public policy initiative in U.S. history. On June 1st, the Texas state legislature became the fifth in the nation to exercise a little-noted constitutional authority to make gold and silver coin legal tender and “functional money.”
The instigator of the Transactional Gold and Silver movement is my friend, Kevin Freeman, the author of the best-seller that launched it, Pirate Money: Discovering the Founders’ Plan for Economic Justice and Defeating the Great Reset.
Will Governor Greg Abbott now enable Texans and others to have an alternative to paper dollars that are worth ever-less and the totalitarianism-enabling Central Bank Digital Currency the Federal Reserve wants to foist upon us?
Or will he surrender to banking lobbyists indifferent to this mighty blow for freedom and, interestingly, even the opportunity for their industry to benefit from it, too?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Communist China and the United States have just agreed in principle to ease trade frictions. Ostensibly, it will mean back to business-as-usual with respect to our insane dependence on Chinese exports of rare earth minerals.
Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party’s “business” is to destroy this country. For example, a third Chinese national has just been charged with smuggling here biological materials capable of devastating our agricultural sector and harming consumers.
Worse yet, the unrest seen in recent days – and far more widespread agitation scheduled for the next ones – bear the fingerprints of CCP-tied donors and front groups committed to our national demise.
Of particular concern is the fact that among the millions of illegal immigrants Joe Biden let in whom Donald Trump has promised to deport are tens of thousands of apparent Chinese soldiers. Their “business” is our mortal peril.
This is Frank Gaffney.
China is reportedly developing high-speed torpedoes that will use artificial intelligence to overcome the use of decoys and other techniques in order to destroy our submarines. Should that happen, it would negate one of the few remaining advantages our navy enjoys over the Chinese Communist Party’s considerably larger and increasingly well-armed one.
It would also compound the betrayal JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan inflicted by raising $4-plus billion for a Pentagon-designated “Chinese military company” called CATL. It’s extending the lethality of Chinese non-nuclear attack submarines with advanced lithium ion batteries.
Those CEOs need to be held personally accountable for increasing the danger to American sailors with funds supplied by American investors. In so doing, they have violated President Trump’s vitally needed “America First Investment Policy” and created a diabolical precedent for further underwriting our enemy via Hong Kong.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Trump has deployed National Guard units to the streets of Los Angeles in response to what are not “peaceful protests,” but riots organized by powerful Communist and aligned groups.
Their goal isn’t merely preventing the implementation of Mr. Trump’s electoral mandate to deport millions of illegal aliens. It’s the precursor to likely violent nationwide resistance to his presidency apparently planned to begin in earnest on June 14th.
Predictably, California Governor Gavin Newscom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, who recently allowed wildfires to destroy large swathes of Los Angeles, object to such efforts to end the mayhem. In fact, the Homeland Security Department says they are contributing to it.
President Trump is right to nip in the bud this prospective insurrection, rather than contend with its desired consequences – which will make those of 2020’s so-called “Summer of Love” pale by comparison.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On June 6th, we honor those who fought and died to liberate France from foreign invaders who brutally imposed a totalitarian ideology on her people and their continent. Tragically, France today is among the European nations now increasingly occupied, not by Nazis, but by adherents to the Islamic doctrine of Sharia.
The current occupation is not yet complete. But the French government has previously acknowledged that over 700 areas of its country are effectively “no-go zones,” where repressive Sharia is the law and first-responders and non-Muslims dare not enter.
A new Middle East Forum report warns that governmental acquiescence to Sharia-supremacism is now underway in this country, too. It documents how Plano, Texas is actually paying millions of tax dollars to Islamic organizations espousing wife-beating and other affronts to Judeo-Christian civilization for which Americans have sacrificed everything.
Shut them down now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Trump yesterday reinstituted a travel ban he initially ordered early in his first term. It’s worth recalling why.
One reason is that there is no way to vet people from many countries across the Middle East and Africa. As he noted in a seminal speech in Youngstown on August 15, 2016, admitting their citizens risks letting in adherents to the ideology of “radical Islam” known as Sharia, which requires its adherents to engage in jihad to impose Islam worldwide.
Sharia is the law of the land in most of the countries included in the new executive order. Recent terrorist attacks remind us that we must prevent more jihadists from coming here. They also underscore the necessity of removing Sharia-supremacists already here, in many cases illegally – and, as he promised in Youngstown, “stripping out” the networks that support them.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Two Chinese students have been accused of sneaking into the country a potential “agroterrorism weapon.” It’s a biological pathogen that could be used to devastate America’s agriculture and food supply and harm those who consume it.
The question occurs: How many others among the 270,000 PRC nationals studying in this country might be engaged in similar missions? Or, for that matter, the tens of thousands of suspected Chinese soldiers now here?
The truth is no one knows. But what is certain is that all of them are obliged to engage in such activity – or worse – if the Chinese Communist Party orders them to do so.
The Trump administration is trying to send the students home. The President needs to inform the public about the danger posed by – and enlist its help in finding and enabling the removal of – the soldiers, too.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Last week, polymath Mike Benz described a decisive moment early in the Cold War when the fledgling CIA covertly intervened to ensure the election of a pro-Western government in Italy. The rest is history.
By preventing Communists from using ballots rather than bullets to take over a key Western European nation, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s bid to conquer the entire continent was confined to the enslavement of just its eastern half.
Unfortunately, in the election this week in South Korea, it has been the Chinese Communist Party assiduously intervening, using democracy to destroy it in South Korea. While the final results are not yet in hand, the absence of countervailing efforts by the United States, let alone the decisive ones we mounted in Italy nearly 80 years ago, may thrust a key ally behind an ominous CCP Iron Curtain in Asia.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On Saturday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Communist China there would be “devastating consequences” if it invaded Taiwan – a prospect that “could be imminent.” That warning was extremely important, as far as it goes.
Unfortunately, while the Chinese Communist Party has widely denounced Pete’s remarks, its dictator, Xi Jinping, may be inclined to discount them – unless accompanied by actions that credibly deter the kind of blockade or invasion for which China’s military has been “rehearsing.”
Such steps should include: enforcing Trump’s “America First Investment Policy” to stop U.S. underwriting of the Chinese military; implementing a counter-mafia strategy to root out the CCP’s “old friends” here; securing the Panama Canal and moving significant elements of the Atlantic fleet through it ASAP; issuing a presidential statement today opposing the CCP’s threat to freedom in South Korea; and finding and removing Chinese soldiers inside America.
The U.S. government has recently served notice on Harvard and other academic institutions: They must stop ignoring the national security implications of having Communist Chinese and pro-terrorist students on campus.
In explaining steps being taken to restrict or terminate visas for such individuals, the State Department is rightly noting that they can put at risk public safety, proprietary information or other, vital American interests.
Harvard is accused, among other things, of “coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.” Many other schools, if not similarly complicit, have turned a blind-eye to the CCP’s influence and even espionage operations on theirs.
This must stop.
The Trump team deserves credit for taking action to that end. And its ability to do so must not be denied by federal judges as indifferent to national security as have been far too many in the academy.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Donald Trump prides himself on being a deal-maker. And he aspires to be a peacemaker.
Consequently, he is pursuing an agreement whereby Iran’s mullahs would actually abandon their ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons – and thereby prevent another “endless” Mideast war.
Mr. Trump’s courtiers insist that he’ll succeed where his predecessors have consistently failed. For that to occur, however, the mullahs must faithfully forswear their determination to trigger Armageddon, thus bringing back the Shiites’ messiah and ushering in their own Golden Age, in which all the world submits to Islam.
Ain’t gonna happen.
That being the case, the only realistic hope for peace lies
with the end of the Iranian regime. A true master deal-maker knows when to cut his losses. This is that time and Israel is prepared to do the heavy lifting.
Let that be your legacy, Mr. President.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Suddenly, a rising chorus of Western nations is insisting that there must be a Palestinian state, right now. And the United Nations is pressing forward with a meeting next month to discuss this initiative, adding further legitimacy to what is, truly, a harebrained idea.
Why the sudden furor? And why the rush?
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, a world-class Israeli-American information warfare practitioner, has just produced a short video explaining that the reason for this diplomatic push has nothing to do with the merits of such a state being more compelling than heretofore.
Incredibly, these nations – from the United Kingdom to Australia half-a-world away – appear panicked that the existing Palestinian terror-state in Gaza is about to be vanquished by Israel, and with it the odious, terrorist regime that seeks explicitly to destroy both the Jewish State and ours.
I say, “Good riddance, Hamas.”
This is Frank Gaffney
During his first presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged to defeat what he called the ideology of “radical Islamic terrorism.” Of late, his administration has been signaling a willingness to embrace its enablers and practitioners.
That’s the unmistakable take-away from Mr. Trump’s visit to Qatar this month. After all, his hosts bankroll Sharia-supremacism worldwide, including by funding toxic influence operations and Muslim Brotherhood terrorists.
Speaking of such terrorists, the administration recently appointed a convicted one along with another Sharia-supremacist to an advisory board on religious liberty. It’s not clear whether Qatar had a hand in these ominous selections.
What is certain though, as former spy Sam Faddis powerfully warns, jihadis and their Communist allies are now openly advocating violent action here at home.
This is a time for rolling up radical Islamic terrorists – not enabling, let alone emboldening, them.
Today we recognize and honor the sacrifice of all those in uniform who gave their lives for our country. It is impossible to overstate the debt we owe those men and women. Without their willingness to serve and die, the rest of us surely would not be living in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
I would like on this occasion to thank as well the nearly 900 members of the Israel Defense Forces killed since October 23, 2023. They have perished in defense of their own country, of course.
But they did so in fighting Sharia-supremacist enemies who explicitly seek the destruction of our nation, too. Their loss in advancing what we pray will be Israel’s ultimate victory will help keep such foes from murdering Americans on foreign battlefields, or here at home.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed Harvard yesterday that it can “no longer enroll foreign students” for “fostering anti-Semitism and violence” and “coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.”
The Secretary declared,“Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”
We must hope that this action will lead to the removal of over a quarter of a million Chinese students nationwide. After all, each of them has been approved to be here by the Chinese Communist Party. Often they are related to Party members.
And they are all subject to legal requirements to do the CCP’s bidding if tasked with espionage or even sabotage – enforced by threats to their families at home and, in some cases, covert Chinese police offices in America.
Such students are ticking time-bombs. They should be sent packing forthwith.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Gordon Chang, Contributor, Gatestone Institute
- I had a fascinating conversation with Gordon Chang about the relative quiet that is now in evidence after the election of Donald Trump in the Western Pacific, whether it is likely to persist, whether it suggests that the Chinese leadership is so beset by problems at home that it is unwilling to risk conflict with the United States, especially under the leadership of someone like Donald Trump, and the importance of ending our practice of enabling the Chinese Communist Party with technology and resources and other help including to the People's Liberation Army emanating from our country.
Robert Joseph, Senior Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy
- I spoke with Robert Joseph about the threats that we face in the nuclear arena and what it will take to deter such threats from being actualized by any of several hostile powers that are feverishly building up their own nuclear forces for the purposes; it seems quite clear, of attacking our friends, our interests, and possibly our own people.
- We also discussed the extent to which we need to modernize our nuclear weapons, as well as augment deterrence with effective space-based missile defenses.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The selection by Donald Trump of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be
the Health and Human Services Secretary powerfully reinforces
our next president’s stated determination to reject efforts to
compound the damage done to our people and medical freedoms
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the advice of the World Health Organization’s Director
General Tedros Ghebreyesus, we were told to mask up, lock
down and inject ourselves with experimental gene therapies that
Pfizer’s own documents show were known at the time to be
ineffective and dangerous.
Despite this disastrous record, the WHO and its champions want
to give Tedros more power – including unilaterally to determine
and declare public health emergencies, and dictate the required
response.
Donald Trump and Bobby Kennedy reject such assaults on our
sovereignty and health. And, thanks be to God, they now have a
popular mandate to do so.
This is Frank Gaffney.
A.J. Rice Author of "The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to Very Fine Peoples"
- I spoke with A.J. Rice about one of the most toxic manifestations of cultural Marxism in the United States, namely the effort to divide us along racial lines and otherwise foster animosity between people of various racial groups.
- Clearly a feature of cultural Marxism, of communist efforts to take down our country, And now, unfortunately, insinuated in a very toxic way in many of our institutions and elite opinion makers and what we must do to try to counteract it.
Dr. Naomi Wolf, Author of “The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity”
- I discussed with Dr. Naomi Wolf the findings in a book called The Pfizer Papers, which describes an intensive volunteer-driven review and analysis of Documents Big Pharma's biggest company, Pfizer, produced and reluctantly disclosed, revealing what is, I believe indisputably, the greatest crime against humanity of all time. Namely, what Pfizer did to create, market, and knowingly disseminate a deadly and ineffective gene therapy made mandatory despite the fact that it would kill large numbers of its users.
A laudable hallmark of Donald Trump’s first presidency was “Promises made, promises kept.” With his selection of my friend, Pete Hegseth, to be the next Secretary of Defense, he seems set to deliver on one of his most important pledges in the 2024 campaign. Think of it as “Make America’s Military Great Again.”
While Pete is best known as a popular host on Fox News, he is also a decorated combat veteran and a longtime champion of a strong national security posture and the veterans who have sacrificed so much to protect us.
He is also the author of, among other terrific books, The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free. It’s a powerful indictment of what has been done, as Barack Obama would say, to “fundamentally transform” the U.S. armed forces.
The list includes using ideological purges, mandatory vaccinations and political commissars to remove patriots from the ranks and indoctrinate and suppress those who remain for believing the military must be a color-blind, merit-based institution rooted in and defending traditional American values – not intentionally and toxically divisive cultural Marxist norms.
President Trump pledged publicly in the course of the campaign to replace senior officers who went along with this so-called “Woke” agenda. He reportedly will put into place a commission of retired senior officers to review the records of all three- and four-star generals and admirals and recommend the immediate retirement of the many who have, as Pete put it, betrayed the men who keep us free.
At a moment when the world is an extremely dangerous place, there is no more pressing mission – and Trumpian promise to be kept – than restoring our national practice of “peace through strength.” Pete Hegseth is the man our next President has brilliantly selected to lead it and the new Republican Senate can’t get him to work soon enough!
This is Frank Gaffney.
Capt. James Fanell, Former Naval Intelligence Office
In an extensive and informative conversation with Captain James Fanell, one of our country's premier retired naval officers and experts on China, on the Chinese Communist Party, about the threat it poses to us, as well as the hopeful indications that President Donald Trump is both seized with the danger and staffing his administration with people who will help him address it successfully as we urgently need them to do.
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
I spoke with Grant Newsham in a wide-ranging conversation about the challenges we face from the Chinese Communist Party, what specifically Donald Trump is going to have to do to defeat that mortal threat, and whether the people he is pulling in to work with him have a similar commitment to that mission. And what challenges they're going to face, especially if the Secretary of the Treasury turns out, as has been the case with his or her predecessors, of being a shell for Wall Street and an enabler of its ongoing efforts to underwrite the Chinese Communist Party, including its military buildup that threatens us with mass destruction.
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.
The time has come to make what may be the most important choice in our nation’s history: Will we persist in the trajectory Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have put us on for most of the past fifteen years – the radical, Marxist and fundamental transformation of America?
Or will we seize the chance to restore this constitutional Republic, its founding values and institutions and the freedoms they were designed to guarantee?
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are committed to preserving and strengthening this country.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are, by contrast, Marxists with longstanding ties to the Chinese Communist Party that seeks to take down the United States.
If you have not already voted, I urge you to do so on Tuesday – and entreat you to join me in voting for the reelection of President Donald J. Trump.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Issues of war and peace often determine a nation’s future. Consequently, when conflict looms, it generally features prominently in their elections.
Yet, that is not the case in the one now coming to a close – even though the Chinese Communist Party: has declared a “People’s War” against us; has massively built up its military; is mobilizing reservists; is actively threatening our allies in the Pacific; and has illegally inserted tens of thousands of its forces in this country.
All are very real indicators of a possibly imminent shooting war that are going largely unremarked by candidates, the press and, therefore, voters.
Consequently, our Committee on the Present Danger: China is conducting today at 1 p.m. a non-partisan “voters’ guide” webinar on the dangers we face and the choices before us that you have a need to know. Check it out at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On Tuesday, for the second time in as many weeks, Donald Trump tweeted about his commitment to end the persecution of Christians. By doing so, he is bringing desperately needed attention to what’s brutally happening to more than 365 million people worldwide simply because they follow Jesus Christ.
I work with an amazing Save the Persecuted Christians coalition committed to doing just that by holding accountable – and penalizing – those who perpetrate such crimes against humanity.
In fact, as president, Mr. Trump showed in microcosm the effectiveness of this approach when he sanctioned Turkey to achieve the release of Andrew Brunson, a pastor it was then persecuting. It must next be done at scale.
God bless President Trump for standing with Christians! Do so now by boycotting Azerbaijan’s upcoming climate change conference over its past and impending genocides of Armenian Christians.
BoycottBaku.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
We’re told Donald Trump is like Adolph Hitler. That’s not true, of course. Ironically, many inclined to believe otherwise are about to honor and embolden someone who actually has engaged, like Hitler, in genocide – and is threatening to do so again.
Last year, Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev attacked and forcibly expelled 120,000 Christians from an enclave called Artsakh. His regime now threatens to invade the nation to which they fled, Armenia.
Incredibly, as things stand now, with the UN’s blessing, many thousands of environmentalists, their corporate sponsors, governments and others are about to attend the “COP29” meeting in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku. By so doing, they will enrich and embolden Aliyev by “greenwashing” his past crimes against humanity and greenlighting his next act of genocide.
Our new coalition warns attendees they’ll be complicit in genocide that President Trump properly condemned last week.
BoycottBaku.org.
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Today, thank God, America’s most formidable political prisoner, Stephen K. Bannon, is scheduled to be let out of federal prison. Not since Nelson Mandela was released from jail in South Africa thirty-four years ago has the freeing of a wrongly incarcerated hero been more anticipated – and, quite likely, more consequential.
The latter would apply because my friend Steve’s return to the fray as a leader of the Make America Great Again movement will bring fresh energy and strategic vision to bear at a decisive moment.
To the great credit of the myriad War Room guest hosts and contributors during his absence, the home fires have been kept burning throughout Steve’s four-month incarceration – the result of a politically weaponized and unconstitutional prosecution. They must, and will, do so with necessarily heightened intensity and effect now that Steve Bannon is back in the fight.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Over the weekend, Israel executed a tactically successful, but limited retaliatory strike against Iran. President Biden improbably hopes that will be the end of direct conflict between the two nations. Presumably, he’s even more anxious to leave unanswered the question of who in his administration leaked highly classified intelligence that compromised the initial Israeli attack plan. Speculation has focused on the chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense responsible for special operations, Ariene Tabatabai. Incredibly, she was just promoted despite evidence indicating she has ties to Iranian government officials. Then there’s this: Red State reported recently that forty U.S. special operators were nearly killed or taken prisoner during Hamas’ October 7th invasion of Israel because the jihadis had very detailed information about their names, ranks and exposed whereabouts. We must find and remove anyone responsible for such treachery. Now. This is Frank Gaffney.
In the closing days of this presidential campaign, you’d never know that the Chinese Communist Party is at war with us.
In fact, as nearly two-hundred webinars conducted by our Committee on the Present Danger: China have documented, the Chinese Communists’ warfare has caused us incalculable harm over many years. And they are now poised to add a shooting war into the mix.
A Soviet Communist named Leon Trotsky famously declared, “You may not be interested in war. But war is interested in you.”
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Harris-Biden administration’s cultural Marxist focus on “diversity, equity and inclusion” has left the U.S. military demoralized and undermanned, clearly ill-prepared for conflict with China.
American voters urgently need the truth about this perilous situation – and clarity about what the presidential candidates think, and are going to do, about it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, President Donald Trump powerfully differentiated himself from Vice President Kamala Harris on an issue of profound importance to millions of voters.
He noted in a Truth Social post that she did “NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced” from an enclave in Azerbaijan known as Artsakh.
He went on to warn that “Christians around the world will not be safe if…Harris is President” and that he will protect persecuted Christians, of whom there are estimated to be over 365 million worldwide.
Incredibly, the UN decided to reward Azerbaijan for its past persecution of Christians and to ignore its promise to attack Armenia next by holding a climate change conference in Baku next month.
Kamala Harris should start demonstrating solidarity with persecuted Christians by announcing the U.S. government will not “greenwash” Azeri genocide and will boycott Baku.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
What is the “enemy within”? The term refers to elements inside America – some of foreign origin, some domestic – who seek our destruction and are, to varying degrees, in a position to contribute to it. This threat has been neglected for far too long, at our extreme peril.
Harris-Biden administration policies have enormously exacerbated the danger, allowing vast numbers of Chinese soldiers, jihadists, Venezuelan and other gang members to come here from overseas. Then, there are the home-grown Marxists and Sharia-supremacists doing business as Antifa, Black Lives Matter and the Muslim Brotherhood.
There’s reason to believe the administration has actually put such enemies’ sympathizers in senior positions. One of them is suspected of devastatingly leaking to Iran highly classified information about Israel’s preparations to retaliate against its toxic regime.
We must as a nation acknowledge, identify and root out the enemies within now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
A former senior undercover CIA operative named Gary Berntsen has released a video in which he asserts, based apparently on first-hand knowledge, that machines widely used in elections across the United States are unreliable.
The charges are not new. They include claims that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez developed them to steal one of his own elections. And then, with help from others in Europe and China, the software and hardware were refined to engineer undetected desired electoral outcomes worldwide.
What is new news is that Mr. Berntsen reportedly has not only personal insights into how we got here. He claims to have witnesses able and willing to confirm his allegations.
If true, we obviously cannot have such compromised machines used in this fall’s critically important elections. We must, instead, hand-count paper ballots cast in person by voters with valid government-issued IDs.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Harris-Biden administration has serially betrayed Israel to prevent her from destroying Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime that runs them.
Threats to cut off the vital and promised resupply of weapons the Israelis require to defend themselves have been accompanied by successive diplomatic actions aimed at isolating – and even criminalizing – them and efforts to topple their democratically elected government.
Now, it appears a U.S. official with access to highly classified information about Israel’s preparations for a fully warranted retaliatory strike against Iran has deliberately divulged it to the mullahs. The repercussions for our ally are potentially catastrophic. Ditto the compromise of our “sources and methods” for gathering such sensitive intelligence.
Far from encouraging peace in the Middle East, the American government’s subversion is ensuring that the remainder of the war Israel must win will be more protracted, far wider and more devastating.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, Israel killed another jihadist monster with American, as well as Israeli, blood on his hands. Kamala Harris believes that should be the end of the war to destroy the Hamas movement that Yahya Sinwar led in the attack on October 7th and its bid to destroy the Jewish State before and since.
Even prior to Sinwar’s liquidation, the Harris-Biden administration was coercing Israel effectively to give Hamas “humanitarian assistance” in northern Gaza or face a cut-off of promised weapons deliveries essential to her survival in this now eight-front war.
And after the election, irrespective of the winner, it seems likely the administration will take an even more counterproductive step by extending official U.S. recognition to the non-existent state of Palestine.
Memo to Kamala: The vast majority of Americans want our ally, Israel, to defeat – not lose to – Hamas. So should you.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In this presidential election, American voters face a stark, yet largely unnoted, choice: Will the United States remain a constitutional Republic with the freedoms of its people guaranteed and safeguarded? Or will we become subject to a world government, run by unaccountable elites chosen by the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum and the Chinese Communist Party? In a powerful two-minute video, Archbishop Vigano warns of the imminence and magnitude of the peril facing, not just Americans, but all mankind at the hands of these “globalists.” Donald Trump wants no part of their agenda. Kamala Harris says she supports Biden’s policies. And their administration has been a driving force behind its adoption via treaties and other initiatives. An important “Sovereignty Summit” at 10 a.m. ET today will illuminate the momentous decision before us. Become empowered at SovereigntyCoalition.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
We take for granted that Canada is a reliably benign partner in trade and national security. Under its increasingly Marxist prime minister Justin Trudeau, however, it has become a petri dish for repressive governance at home and threats from foreign powers and illegal aliens that make our open northern border a grave liability, too. Trudeau openly admires Communist China and has allowed into Canada six million immigrants, many from there. Border expert Todd Bensman reported recently on terrorist plots emanating from our northern neighbor. A September symposium there warned of growing threats from Russia and China in the Arctic – and the appalling lack of needed U.S. and Canadian defenses. And freedom of speech is under relentless attack by the government and parliament. In due course – if not quite soon – these will be our problems and can no longer safely be ignored. This is Frank Gaffney.
The Iranian regime yesterday blanketed Israel with 180 ballistic missile strikes. Afterwards, Vice President Kamala Harris declared, “Iran is a destabilizing, dangerous force in the Middle East….We will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend U.S. forces and interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists.” Welcome as such statements are, they starkly contrast with her administration’s fixation from its inception with enriching, empowering and emboldening Iran – policy malfeasance that predictably contributed to today’s disastrous regional reality. As the Veep herself said: “Iran is not only a threat to Israel. Iran is also a threat to American personnel in the region, American interests, and innocent civilians across the region who suffer at the hands of Iran-based and -backed terrorist proxies.” The U.S. government must now help Israel destroy that threat, or get out of the way. This is Frank Gaffney.
The Iranian regime yesterday blanketed Israel with 180 ballistic missile strikes. Afterwards, Vice President Kamala Harris declared, “Iran is a destabilizing, dangerous force in the Middle East….We will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend U.S. forces and interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists.” Welcome as such statements are, they starkly contrast with her administration’s fixation from its inception with enriching, empowering and emboldening Iran – policy malfeasance that predictably contributed to today’s disastrous regional reality. As the Veep herself said: “Iran is not only a threat to Israel. Iran is also a threat to American personnel in the region, American interests, and innocent civilians across the region who suffer at the hands of Iran-based and -backed terrorist proxies.” The U.S. government must now help Israel destroy that threat, or get out of the way. This is Frank Gaffney.
We’re told vice presidential debates don’t influence the outcome of presidential elections. Tonight’s should be an exception. For one thing, additional assassins are reportedly hunting the top of the Republican ticket, making the readiness of Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, to step up at any moment a matter of surpassing importance. For another, this debate presents a unique opportunity to address an issue on which the two candidates differ profoundly. Democrat Tim Walz has a lifetime of extensive personal and professional connections to Communist China and rejects the idea that it’s an adversary. Senator Vance strongly disagrees. A very timely webinar at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time today will explore how Chinese Communists and their friends use three Maoist “magic weapons” – propaganda, lawfare and front groups – to shape our perceptions of, and responses to, the China threat. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
Tomorrow night’s vice presidential debate should be a tale of two “little red books.” Democratic candidate Tim Walz has collected and disseminated the one by Chinese Communist Party founder, Mao Tse-tung. His Republican opponent, J.D. Vance would be well-advised to draw on a new one being published tomorrow by the great Gordon G. Chang.
Chang’s book is entitled “Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America.” That actually was Mao’s plan – one now weaponized against us to the point where my friend, Gordon, arguably our country’s preeminent authority on the CCP, persuasively warns we face imminent shooting war at its hands.
If that were not sufficient reason for American voters to hear much more about this topic, the two veep candidates have profoundly differing life experiences with Communist China – Walz’s long, personal and favorable; Vance’s scarred, strategic and hostile.
Let the debate begin!
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I am sorry for not being in the best voice at the moment but I have an important message. For years, I have been using this platform to share my thoughts about national security challenges of the day and what we should be doing about them. It’s been a privilege to encourage our listeners to take action in creative ways that can make a difference to our country’s future. There have been developments that may mean we have to end this public service. I am reluctant to do that, especially in the immediate run-up to a critically important election. So, I’d like to ask for your help in making the decision about whether to continue distributing the Secure Freedom Minute. Please send me your thoughts via the Comments section at the SecuringAmerica.TV website. Either way, I want to thank you for listening. You’re the reason we reach out and I very much hope we’ll be able to continue to do so. This is Frank Gaffney.
In recent days, Israel has conducted history’s most humane, discriminating and militarily successful attack on thousands of terrorists deeply embedded in a civilian population. It did so by turning pagers and walkie-talkies into precision weapons. Middle East expert Michael Doran calls it “Operation Grim Beeper.” The genius of the Israeli strikes is that the enemy actually did the targeting for the Jewish State. Hezbollah only gave its most important commanders and operatives these communication devices. Once the jihidists realized the extent to which their systems are compromised, they were reduced to meeting face-to-face, affording Israel an opportunity to take them out with more traditional techniques. So why would Leon Panetta, a top national security Democrat, say that Israel is engaged in “terrorism”? Evidently, like many others in his party, he wants Israel to lose. Fortunately, most Americans disagree. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. On Sunday morning, the United Nations adopted without debate a “Pact for the Future” that includes a mandate for the organization and its Secretary-General to manage “complex global shocks.” While the language employed misleadingly obscures the true purpose of this new charter, it is clearly to turn the United Nations into a world government. That’s because, with strong support from the Harris-Biden administration, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres intends to obtain the authority automatically to order responses to climate change, pandemics, commercial disruptions, cyberattacks, asteroids and any other so-called “black swan events.” Israel will likely be impacted first by the new Pact’s explicit inclusion of certain “conflicts” in its mandate since the UN effectively ordered her to disarm last week. Make no mistake, however: The globalists’ world government – which Americans neither support nor approved – will be coming for our sovereignty and freedoms, too.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Israel’s continuing attacks on Hezbollah suggest that the Netanyahu government has reached an unavoidable conclusion:There’s a narrow – and rapidly closing window – in which the Jewish State can act decisively to defeat her enemies and ours. That’s because, whichever way the U.S. presidential election campaign comes out, the abandonment and subversion of Israel by the Biden-Harris administration is certain to be greatly intensified. Obviously, if Kamala Harris loses, the prospect of the restoration of a pro-Israel Trump presidency will prompt the outgoing regime to want to change “the facts on the ground” as much as possible. And if Harris wins, she will want Biden’s lame-duck team to be responsible for doing that – including perhaps recognizing a Palestinian state – before she takes office. American interests require Benjamin Netanyahu to seize the day. God speed, Bibi, and to you and Israel. This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, the relentlessly anti-Israel United Nations voted to demand that the Jewish State commit suicide. That would be the practical effect of a Palestinian-drafted resolution giving Israelis one year to withdraw to indefensible borders, assuring that enemies determined to destroy her control territory from which to do so. The UN’s Marxist Secretary-General says he approves of this measure and will abide by it. Even worse, unbeknownst to virtually any American or Israeli, within days, Antonio Guterres is expected to be given the power to designate international emergencies and dictate what member nations must do to respond. Israel will likely be the first to be victimized by such a transformation of the UN into a world government under the rule of an unaccountable, unelected foreign bureaucrat. We may well be next. Join us in opposing these travesties at StopWorldGovernment.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
Israel yesterday executed a surgical strike against more than three thousand Hezbollah operatives. The “surgery” was executed via typically pocket-borne Iranian-supplied pagers that the Israelis were able to detonate nearly simultaneously across Lebanon. In addition to losing private and other body parts, the terrorist organization sustained what is in Middle Eastern culture, an even greater blow: a loss of face. The reaction was immediate. Across the Arab world – including notably in areas of Lebanon, memes, videos and social media posts figuratively exploded, evidence of widespread hatred of both Hezbollah and its masters in Tehran. Israel’s strike has also helped burnish its reputation for military and intelligence preeminence. Which is good for the Jewish State – and for an America whose government has shamefully sought to coerce our ally into making territorial and other concessions to our mutual enemy: a now-somewhat emasculated Hezbollah. This is Frank Gaffney.
In just six days, the Biden-Harris administration intends to support the United Nations’ transformation into an instrument of world government. It’s doing so without the American people’s knowledge, let alone assent. Our Sovereignty Summit yesterday, headlined by Senator Ron Johnson, established that the plan to give the UN’s Secretary-General sweeping emergency powers – like those conferred stealthily in June on the World Health Organization’s leader – is unconstitutional and an assault on our sovereignty and freedoms. A bipartisan majority in the House voted last week to require Senate approval of the latter treaty. A majority of governors say they “will not comply” with it. And a congressional press conference today will serve notice the next accord expected to emerge from the upcoming “Summit of the Future” warrants the same treatment. World government must be a defining issue in the 2024 election. Will it be? This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The latest attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump is evidence not only of his obviously deteriorating personal security situation. It is a warning about the parlous state of America’s internal security more broadly. Reports of pet-eating Haitian illegal aliens in Ohio and Venezuelan gang members taking over apartment buildings in Colorado grab headlines, but obscure far more serious threats posed by two cohorts now here in large numbers: jihadists from around the world and military personnel from Communist China. FBI Director Chris Wray has repeatedly warned about the prospect of imminent attacks inside this country. It seems likely that they will come from one, or perhaps both, of these populations. What is being done to identify, locate and neutralize such threats before they strike with deadly effect – perhaps against our political leaders, perhaps against our infrastructure and people, more generally? This is Frank Gaffney.
Two developments are pointed reminders that we are risking disaster by ignoring the greatest threat to freedom in world history. The FBI recently arrested a woman who allegedly ran influence operations for the Chinese Communist Party at the highest levels of government in New York State. And one of China’s top generals has just been invited to participate in a conference of allied military leaders about coordinating defenses against, wait for it, CCP aggression. These are just symptoms of how our elites have ignored and exacerbated the mortal peril we now face. It’s scarcely mentioned in the present presidential campaign. As a result, American voters are generally clueless about the growing risks of a shooting war. At 5 p.m. Eastern Time today, an important webinar will expose what you need to know – and do – about such reckless willful blindness. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
In a much-needed affirmation of bipartisan opposition to world government, the House of Representatives yesterday approved legislation that would require the U.S. Senate to vote on a new World Health Organization treaty that imperils our freedoms. Kudos to Speaker Mike Johnson and the bill’s lead sponsor, Tom Tiffany, for putting the House on record in favor of our Constitution – which requires at least two-thirds of Senators to ratify such accords. As Senator Ron Johnson and all of his Republican colleagues sponsor the companion to the Tiffany legislation, they could spare us anti-constitutional tyranny at the hands of the WHO’s Marxist Director-General. Unfortunately, the Harris-Biden team and Senate Democrats support this globalist power-grab and the resulting surrender of our sovereignty. Worse yet, the administration is poised to give the UN Secretary-General similar powers momentarily. Tell them “No way” at SovereigntyCoalition.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Twenty-three years ago today, nineteen jihadists launched murderous attacks inside the United States incalculably harming our people, economy and liberties. Have we learned the lessons of 9/11? Arguably, the most important one is that we face enemies willing and able to strike us here at home, as well as abroad. While we have been endlessly told that if we see something, we must say something, it has been impermissible to say the most obvious thing to be seen: We now have, among other enemies within, many thousands of Sharia-supremacists in this country who believe the violent triumph of Islam is a religious duty. FBI Director Chris Wray is repeatedly warning of impending attacks. But unless we are able to identify and neutralize such enemies and their supporting infrastructure, we face the prospect of jihadist mayhem that will make 9/11 pale by comparison. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. In twelve days, global elitists will put world government on steroids. The perpetrators don’t want us to know it, but that’s the purpose of the upcoming “Summit of the Future” and the accord it is supposed to adopt, dubbed the “Pact for the Future.” Rather than openly doing so by voting to revise the UN Charter, the idea is to launch a “process” to be conducted largely behind closed doors. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, however, has let slip that process’ goal – namely, granting him authority unilaterally to declare and dictate the responses to emergencies caused by any of a number of so-called “complex global shocks.” That “fundamental transformation” would amount to world government. Tonight’s presidential debate affords an opportunity to expose what’s afoot and ask American voters whether they want “global governance” or the limited, representative and accountable kind guaranteed by our Constitution. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. This is “China Week” as House Speaker Mike Johnson seeks votes on a package of bills aimed at countering the Chinese Communist Party. Will it be for the presidential candidates, as well? It must be since most Americans don’t know the CCP has subjected us to decades of pre-kinetic “unrestricted warfare” and five years of “People’s war.” Worse yet, we’re generally unaware of the possibly imminent prospect of a shooting one with the Chinese Communists, as well. Tomorrow night’s presidential debate may be the only time voters will have a chance to hear the candidates jointly address this critical topic. The Republican and Democratic tickets have starkly different records on whether Communist China is a threat or just a “competitor.” Will the ABC moderators ensure we can make an informed choice on the single most important issue facing the next president and America? This is Frank Gaffney.
Texas Representative Chip Roy has just released indispensable documentation of the dangerous “fundamental transformation” of America accomplished by the Biden-Harris administration in just four years by deliberately facilitating a human tidal wave into America of mostly unaccompanied military-age men from 160 countries. They include: terrorists, cartel members, human traffickers and other criminals entering and operating inside the United States with impunity. They’ve killed over 75,000 Americans with Chinese-supplied fentanyl in the last year alone. Their greatest crime of all, however, may be an impending theft of November’s election by illegal aliens and other non-citizens casting ballots. Fortunately, Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans have agreed with Rep. Roy that impeding such a travesty by enacting the SAVE Act must be included with stop-gap government funding later this month. Mitch McConnell must join them, or be removed as Senate Minority leader forthwith. This is Frank Gaffney.
Last week, Republican governors threw down with globalists determined to crush our sovereignty and personal freedoms. Most of them had previously rejected then-impending treaties designed to give the World Health Organization’s Marxist Director General authority over our health care policies in case of a pandemic or other so-called “public health emergencies.” After one of those treaties was stealthily approved, the twenty-six GOP governors declared simply, “We will not comply.” They’re standing up for powers they uniquely have under our Constitution -- but the Harris-Biden administration is happy to surrender to global government. Unfortunately, another, even more sweeping betrayal is now underway. The federal government wants to give the UN’s Marxist Secretary-General similar power over all non-health emergencies as a result of decisions to be finalized at the “Summit of the Future” in three-weeks’ time. Patriots must not comply with this treachery, either. This is Frank Gaffney.
The FBI arrested one of New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s former top aides for serving with her also-indicted husband the interests of the Chinese Communist Party while doing her day job.
These indictments call to mind an urgent heads-up then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the nation’s governors in 2020. He warned that they and their administrations are among those being aggressively targeted by the CCP’s vast influence operations here.
Currently, some of them support Chinese companies’ acquisition of farmland. Others have invested their taxpayers’ funds subsidizing PRC factories coming to their states. And Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been to China thirty times, often bringing along impressionable young Americans.
A recent Present Danger: China webinar documented the counterintelligence nightmare posed by those the Chinese Communists call their “old friends.” What will it take to wake America from this ticking security time-bomb?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Every day brings news that undermines public confidence that the vote this fall will be free and fair. Recent reports warn of registration irregularities, the fraud-prone nature of mail-in ballots and the problematic provenance, software and internet connections associated with machines used to tally them and other votes. Too many election officials of both parties seem determined to look the other way. Fortunately, New Hampshire has actually conducted an audit of the state’s election software and found, among other troubling results, that foreign developers had it connect with offshore servers. At a bare minimum, every state should be required to do the same. And any that fail even the most basic security protocols must default to the one that reliably works: with few, legitimate exceptions, same-day voting with hand-counted paper ballots cast by legal voters providing proof of identity and citizenship. This is Frank Gaffney.
Two tech titans put the issue of government censorship up in lights this week. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expressed remorse that he allowed the Biden administration to pressure him to suppress criticism of its policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. And X-owner Elon Musk correctly observed that amounted to a First Amendment violation. Unfortunately, in June, Team Biden critically assisted in the drafting and adoption of an international obligation mandating suppression of free speech in conflict with World Health Organization policies and prescriptions. That requirement is imposed by a new treaty amending the WHO’s International Health Regulations in the event of criticism of the dictates of its Marxist Director General. Paging Messrs. Musk and Zuckerberg: We need the Senate to consider and reject this accord that breaches not only the First Amendment, but much of the rest of our Constitution, as well. This is Frank Gaffney.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres demands Israel halt counterterrorist operations in the ancient Jewish homeland of Judea and Samaria mounted in the face of explicit calls by the Palestinian Authority for a violent uprising there. As things stand now, the UN’s Marxist leader will soon be able to order the Jewish State – or any other nation – to do what he dictates. Welcome to the new world government that such globalists intend to put irreversibly in train next week. Unless one or more nation objects by September 3rd, Team Guterres will set the stage for his totalitarian empowerment via an “Emergency Platform” at next month’s “Summit of the Future.” An alarming briefing Tuesday sponsored by our Sovereignty Coalition revealed that the Harris-Biden administration strongly supports this unconstitutional surrender of our sovereignty. Will any other country’s government stand up for theirs – and ours? This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. This week marks the third anniversary of Team Biden’s abject surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban – arguably the greatest unforced debacle for the U.S. military ever. Another one is intensifying in the waters off Yemen. Iran’s Houthi proxies have gotten away with attacking international shipping there, effectively preventing all but Chinese, Russian and Iranian vessels from transiting the RedSea. A large tanker struck recently is now leaking a million barrels of oil, precipitating an environmental catastrophe. That disaster is being compounded by a strategic catastrophe. The Houthis have repeatedly fired missiles and drones against U.S. Navy warships the Pentagon has ordered to defendthemselves, but otherwise retaliate only minimally. Like our needless rout in Afghanistan, such politically engineered American security malpractice is emboldening our enemies worldwide and leaving our allies – in this case, especially Israel and Egypt – facing intensifying threats alone. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. It will probably shock the millions of Americans treated to an intensely patriotically themed Democratic convention last week that the Harris-Biden administration is expected next month to take another major step in surrendering our national sovereignty and personal freedoms to world government. That would be the practical effect of replicating at the United Nation’s so-called “Summit of the Future” in September what the presidency also-known-as “Obama 3.0” did in June. At the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the U.S. government stealthily agreed to a new treaty conferring, among other outrages, emergency powers to force us to conform our laws tothe dictates of the World Health Organization’s unelected, malfeasant and Maoist Director General. Now, the Democrats intend to give similar sovereignty-crushing authority to another Marxist bureaucrat: the UN’s Secretary General. True patriots must reject these surrenders of our freedoms. Now. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. You wouldn’t know it listening to last week’s Democratic convention, but we face the serious prospect of a shooting war with Communist China, possibly this fall. The Harris-Biden administration is not talking about that danger – but it may be the ultimate “October Surprise.” Instead, Cabinet officers like National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin are, respectively, desperately trying to “manage the relationship” diplomatically and financially prop up – read, buy off – Xi Jinping. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy is inviting war by exhibiting weakness in the face of the CCP’s immense naval buildup. The Pentagon just announced that seventeen warships must be sidelined for lack of personnel. Others are being retired prematurely, having maintenance deferred and new construction is woefully inadequate. Promises to “ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world” must be translated into action now. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Throughout human history, armies, tribes, or simply hordes of people have entered others’ territories. Until recently, the natives have generally forcibly resisted such invasions, sometimes successfully, often not. Lately, however, Western nations have simply allowed millions of aliens to enter their countries illegally. Worse yet, by facilitating their entrance and making generous accommodations after their arrival, governments in Europe and here have effectively welcomed them in – and incentivized far more to make the trip. Unsurprisingly, the effect of these invasions has been nothing short of disastrous for the targeted societies. Singularly alarming is the unresisted insertion into ours of multiple divisions worth of actual Chinese military personnel. Obviously, they’re capable of attacking this nation from within in potentially devastating ways. Evidently, notwithstanding our laws, they will also be able to vote for Communist China’s preferred candidates this fall. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The least-discussed acute public policy problem we face is the mortal threat posed to our nation by the Chinese Communist Party. It declared a “People’s War” against America five years ago and has weaponized against us every technique short of actual kinetic attacks, even as it prepares for a shooting war, as well. Curiously, despite vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s longstanding and intimate personal knowledge of Communist China, he made no mention of this danger during his remarks to the Democratic National Convention last night. That’s the more striking since the regime in Beijing faces acute internal problems which, if properly exploited, could bring it down. The Biden administration, instead, is working to reduce Beijing’s “financial stresses.” We need an informed national decision this fall about whether that’s advisable. And we need to know where candidates stand on the question now. This is Frank Gaffney.
As Kamala Harris curries favor with pro-Hamas Democrats, her administration is euchring Israel to agree to a ceasefire designed to save that terrorist organization from increasingly imminent destruction by the Jewish State. Should her efforts succeed, the predictable result would be not only the death in captivity of more hostages, but the imperiling of every other Israeli as what would amount to their country’s defeat emboldens Iran and its friends to try to finish her off. They will then turn to us, “the Great Satan.” Fortunately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is resisting such extortion, as he must. U.S. polls keep showing eighty percent of Americans stand with Israel, and not Hamas. Especially if our campuses are again besieged by the pro-jihadist “Red-Green axis” this fall, Kamala’s sympathies may become a distinct political liability, as well as a strategic disaster for America. This is Frank Gaffney.
President Joe Biden made a surprising admission at the Democratic National Convention last night. No, it wasn’t his declaration that selecting Kamala Harris was “the best decision” he ever made. After all, that fits a party-line that implausibly describes her as “the most qualified person to be president.” Biden acknowledged, however, that he had made “a lot of mistakes.” That’s not exactly news. For example, former Obama Secretary of Defense Robert Gates famously observed that Biden’s been wrong on “nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” But a new impeachment report from three House committees documents that Joe Biden and his family decided to accept at least $27 million dollars from foreign governments, including Chinese intelligence. Ignoring the betrayal of our country can only encourage others aligned with the CCP to do it, too. This is Frank Gaffney.
As Democrats begin their four-day gaslighting binge today in Chicago, a main focus will likely be obscuring how hard left is the Harris-Walz ticket. Yet, Donald Trump insists that Kamala is a “Communist.” Who’s right? Let’s examine, for example, the so-called “global governance” agenda the Vice President supports. Our recent Sovereignty Summit examined four such initiatives calculated to subject our sovereignty and freedoms to the totalitarian dictates of foreign powers, including the Chinese Communist Party and its Marxist allies who run the World Health Organization and the UN. That would be the effect of: two WHO treaties – one sneakily approved in June, one still being negotiated; a UN “Pact for the Future” set to be sprung on us next month; and the next “plandemic” – perhaps Avian Flu, perhaps Monkey Pox declared last week to be a “global health emergency.” Pretty radical stuff. This is Frank Gaffney.
As Democrats prepare to hold their coronation of the Harris-Walz ticket next week, the official/media gaslighting that for four years brought us the “Joe is fit to be President” deception and is now assiduously enforcing the “Kamala is fit to be President” deception will be prodigious. For example, watch how they treat the mortal threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Both candidates have deeply problematic ties to the CCP, as does the President they undemocratically dumped from the ticket. And on the Biden-Harris administration’s watch that threat has markedly grown and overwhelmingly been appeased, rather than resisted. The rest of the world, including our allies, have noticed – and are reacting. For example, Thailand, the most important one in Southeast Asia, is conducting military exercises next week with the People’s Liberation Army. The CCP is our enemy. Is it voting Democrat this year? This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, the World Health Organization’s Director General declared monkey pox to be a global public health emergency. Unfortunately, Tedros Ghebreysus – a Maoist picked for the job by the Chinese Communist Party, who helped impose the totalitarian “China Model” response to COVID-19 – was recently, sneakily given new powers to do worse now. They were conferred in what amounts to a new treaty that requires us to give an official the power to align our laws with Tedros’ orders. Among those will be requirements to censor information that doesn’t conform to the WHO’s narratives and prescriptions. Think that can’t happen? Think again. One thousand people in Britain have recently been arrested for online posts disapproved by her new leftist government. And that’s before the health emergency was declared. Insist the Senate consider and reject the ominous new WHO treaty at SovereigntyCoalition.org. This is Frank Gaffney
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. It’s a bad time to have unelected and unaccountable officials running our country. Unconfirmed reports suggest that they are making one or more dangerous concessions to postpone until after November’s election Iran’s promised retaliation for recent Israeli assassinations of top jihadists. One is said to be a promise to pull out of Iranian-dominated Iraq the few remaining U.S. forces that Tehran’s militias have been attacking with impunity. Such appeasement there and in Afghanistan only emboldened our enemies. Another rumored concession would drop all pretense that we will prevent the ayatollahs from getting nuclear weapons. We know the people running the U.S. government are redeploying woefully overstretched forces from the Pacific to the Middle East – likely to protect Iran from Israeli attack rather than the converse. That’s a flashing green-light for Communist China’s aggression against Taiwan, and probably us. Paging President Trump. This is Frank Gaffney.
As I record this message, Iran and its terrorist proxies remain poised to retaliate against Israel for her embarrassing assassinations of top jihadists in Beirut and Tehran. For weeks, our ally’s population has been traumatized by the prospect of potentially devastating retaliation. The Harris-Biden administration is urging restraint all around. It has built up American forces in the region. The use to which they would put, however, is unclear. Presumably, if Israel continues to wait to be struck, our military would do as they did before when Iran fired 300 missiles at the Jewish State last April, namely, help shoot them down. In the past, though, when faced with the prospect of deadly attacks, Israel has wisely protected its people and their nation by preemption. If she does so this time, would the U.S. government defend our enemies in Iran and Hezbollah? This is Frank Gaffney.
I just had a chance to stream “Flynn,” a powerful video biography of my friend, Lieutenant General Mike Flynn. It describes the story of a highly decorated warrior and former leader of U.S. intelligence. You can’t help but be moved by the accounts of his service, sacrifice and patriotism. Most of the film, however, explores what happened to the General after he was forced out of the military by an Obama administration that twice gave him senior positions, but was infuriated when he refused to lie to Congress about its failure to defeat the Islamic State. When President-elect Donald Trump tapped Mike Flynn to be his National Security Advisor, corrupt Democrats and Republicans joined forces to destroy him – critically denying Mr. Trump and his fledgling administration a skilled, but loyal, Washington operative who threatened The Swamp’s toxic uniparty. The rest is history.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer, that service’s top enlisted soldier, recently declared, “I have never been to war.” To be sure, over his decades of decorated service, that veteran special operator has fought in many of our nation’s military actions, including the so-called “Global War on Terror.” The senior Sergeant Major’s comment was followed by this vital clarification: “Not war like we’re talking about, large-scale combat operations with a near-peer….This has the potential to change the American way of life.” The “near-peer” enemy, of course, is the Chinese Communist Party. And the “People’s War” against America that it declared publicly five years ago could “go kinetic” at any moment. Given the stakes, SMA Weimer’s warning – and what we must do to deter the CCP and, failing that, to defeat it – should be the most important issue in this fall’s election. This is Frank Gaffney.
America’s most important ally currently is braced for an attack by Iran and/or its proxies. Thanks to Iranian arms transfers, Hezbollah alone can devastate Israel with many thousands of missiles capable of reaching all her territory. Some of these weapons are believed to be capable of unleashing electro-magnetic pulses that could disrupt the Jewish State’s defenses and possibly devastate the power grid upon which both her military and civilian society depend. The question occurs: What is the Harris-Biden administration doing to deter Iran? While American forces in the region have been beefed up, the official U.S. line is that we’re just going to defend Israel like the last time Iran directly attacked her. Far more likely to prevent further retaliation would be our commitment to help Israel destroy the mullahs’ regime. They are likely to perceive anything less as greenlighting Iranian aggression, again. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Once upon a time, the United States government took seriously the idea that national security matters. Those with ties to America’s enemies were ineligible to hold sensitive posts, lest they imperil the country. That sensible principle has been profoundly undermined during the three Obama-Biden administrations as numerous individuals involved with Russia, Iran, Cuba, Hezbollah, Hamas and most especially the Chinese Communist Party have nonetheless occupied senior government jobs. One of those is Joe Biden, whose family knowingly took millions of dollars from Chinese intelligence. Another is his Vice President, Kamala Harris, a “red diaper baby” whose career and husband have long been involved with Maoists and the CCP. Yet another is her choice for Veep, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has made thirty trips to Communist China and insists it’s no adversary. We must reestablish vital security protocols while we still can.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Britain’s new leftist prime minister has responded to riots across his country by unveiling the expanded use of facial recognition, intelligence-sharing, “criminal behavior orders” and other surveillance techniques to restrict preemptively the movement and actions of opponents of the mass immigration that is radically transforming the U.K. Where have we seen such practices relentlessly applied? They are the hallmark of totalitarian systems and have been comprehensively institutionalized by the Chinese Communist Party with its so-called “Social Credit System.” The critical enabler to such a system is the requirement of digital ID cards. A newly adopted World Health Organization treaty supported by the Harris-Biden administration requires every nation to issue them – or, initially, paper ones – in the name of public health monitoring. Unless the U.S. Senate rejects this accord, we will be a pretext away from adopting, like Britain, the “China Model.” This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The war on Judeo-Christian civilization has entered a new and possibly decisive phase. Israel faces the distinct possibility of mass destruction at the hands of Sharia-supremacists in Iran and their proxies. In the United Kingdom, a proto-civil war has broken out between natives and those who have immigrated there in vast numbers from nations where the law of the land is Sharia – the totalitarian operating code of authoritative Islam that such adherents hope to impose on Britain and the rest of the world. And, as excommunicated Catholic Archbishop Carlos Vigano recently observed, the forces of evil used the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Paris to exult Satanism, blaspheme and revile those who worship God. If we do not stand against these and other enemies of freedom and the Lord who gave us ours, we may soon be enslaved by them. This is Frank.
The Harris-Biden administration yesterday announced that Edmundo Gonzalez overwhelming defeated Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro in recent elections. Maduro insists that he won. It’s unclear what, if anything, the United States and its “international partners” will do to end the regime in Caracas that has long oppressed its own people and threatens ours. After all, the devastation wrought by Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, has been one of the “root causes” of dangerous illegal immigration here. Although addressing such problems is the only part of Kamala Harris’ immigration czar portfolio she acknowledges, her response to date has largely been to perpetuate Maduro’s misrule – buying his oil, ignoring his strategically perilous ties to our enemies and allowing him to send operatives, criminals and much of the rest of his population to this country. Help Venezuelans free themselves, and send Maduro’s illegal aliens home.
Former President Trump’s remarks to a group of black journalists yesterday focused attention on how Vice President Kamala Harris self-identifies. Unfortunately, that is not as what she is: namely, thoroughly dishonest. Perhaps Kamala’s most dangerous untruths are those she repeatedly told about President Biden’s physical condition and fitness for office. For nearly four years, she has cited her proximity to and frequent interactions with him to deceive the American people about not only his health, but concerning who has actually been running the country. Today, Harris and her partisans in the media are similarly gaslighting the public about her own fitness – notably, concealing her deplorable record in this office and previous ones, her Marxist Democrat policy preferences and her problematic intelligence. With the country imperiled as never before by enemies foreign and domestic, we must have nothing but the truth.
Two assassinations in twelve hours have taken out top leaders of Iran’s proxy war against Israel. They also serve as a reminder that the Jewish State is fighting in that war not only her enemies, but ours. Israeli forces eliminated in Beirut Fuad Shukr, a top commander of Hezbollah. They have yet to acknowledge a second air strike in Tehran that killed the head of the so-called “political wing” of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh. Our government rightly deemed both of these jihadists to be terrorists. For four decades, Shukr has had the blood of U.S. Marines on his hands and now that of 15 Israeli children just killed on the Golan Heights. And Haniyeh was a Specially Designated Global Terrorist tied to the murder of seventeen Americans. We had an interest in these monsters’ liquidation. Ditto in helping Israel win our common war.
For decades after World War II, the U.S. military was sensibly required to be able to fight and win two major wars in different parts of the world simultaneously. After Ronald Reagan bloodlessly defeated the Soviet Union, that requirement steadily shrank. A new, congressionally mandated report says that, under the Biden-Harris administration, America’s armed forces are now not “prepared” to fight even a single major conflict. In the words of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, “The U.S. military lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat.” Unfortunately, “not prepared” would be an even more apt description for our homeland security, thanks in part to the administration’s admission of countless thousands of Chinese soldiers and jihadists. We must pray there’s time for accountability this November – and urgent corrective action thereafter. This is Frank Gaffney.
There’s an increasingly obvious common-denominator to what’s going on throughout the world: Evil is on the march. Its object is nothing less than the destruction of the West’s Judeo-Christian civilization and nations – especially ours and Israel’s – in which it has both been rooted and flourished. The demonic display in which transvestites obscenely mocked the Last Supper during the Olympics’ opening in Paris this weekend is a particularly vivid, if non-violent, example of the spiritual warfare now afoot worldwide. Far worse is the actual and intensifying, murderous kind being waged by an alliance of totalitarians ranging from Communist China to Russia to Iran and their proxies. Today’s “axis of evil” is also attacking free nations’ sovereignty and liberties with toxic “global governance” initiatives. With God’s grace, good will yet triumph. We must pray He’ll do His part – as we mobilize to do ours. This is Frank Gaffney.
Vice President Kamala Harris met yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, unlike President Biden who did the same separately, she spoke to the press afterwards. Kamala simultaneously acknowledged Israel’s right to defend itself and sharply denounced how the Jewish State is doing so. Presumably her remarks played well with the pro-Hamas rioters who burned our flag and defaced our monuments in Washington on Wednesday. Indeed, some were reportedly bussed in from a campaign rally she had in Wisconsin the day before. Courageous Muslim reformer Asra Nomani investigated the riot and quickly established that the busses and demonstration were organized by the “Red-Green axis” – notably, ANSWR, a North Korean-backed Marxist organization, and the Council on American Islamic Relations and other Sharia-supremacist front groups. Kamala is to be commended for denouncing the rioters. Will she also disassociate herself from their organizers? This is Frank Gaffney.
Today may be Benjamin Netanyahu’s finest hour. If so, it will be because when Israel’s leader addresses a Joint Session of Congress, he will speak truth to power. The truth is that Israel is fighting a war for Judeo-Christian civilization against Sharia-supremacists who seek her destruction and ours. Because Israelis are doing so, we may not have to. But they do need our help resupplying the weapons required to win. Bibi must also speak truthfully about the so-called “two-state solution.” China’s purported reconciliation of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority confirms the obvious: Israel has no “partner for peace,” only jihadists who will use whatever territory they control to wage war on the Israelis, and us. The Biden-Harris administration doesn’t want to hear these truths – or have the American people hear them, either. All the more reason why Benjamin Netanyahu must ensure they do. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to Washington to speak directly to the American people via a Joint Session of Congress. It’s necessitated by the overt hostility he faces from a Biden-Harris administration determined to topple him. Bibi’s message is expected to be one that underscores the progress Israel is making in destroying its enemies – and ours – in a struggle to the death between Judeo-Christian civilization and those determined to eliminate it. The Jewish State’s crushing retaliation Saturday for a Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv is the latest example. It contrasts starkly with our administration’s hapless response to that terrorist group’s piracy and successive missile strikes on U.S. warships. Netanyahu will brave misbehavior by congressional critics and possibly violent protests by pro-terrorist groups in Washington. We must pray that he is better protected than was Donald Trump in Butler. This is Frank Gaffney.
Our country is in extremis. We face a world of dangerous enemies and panicking allies. And threats on the home front are at an unprecedented level. At this juncture, we simply cannot afford to have the U.S. presidency in unfit hands. Yet, Joe Biden has been unfit for office at least since he ran for the White House from his basement four years ago. His presidency was made possible, and been run by, Barack Obama and his lieutenants – who lied about that reality. Team Obama picked Kamala Harris to be Biden’s vice president. They knew she, too, was unfit for the job – a reality that will, despite further lying, surely become ever more apparent in the days ahead. Those who have knowingly lied about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ inadequacies should be disqualified from public office – and selecting others who seek it. This is Frank Gaffney.
Former President Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican convention last night by speaking at length and very movingly about his experience with the attempt to assassinate him. He rightly gave God full credit for the truly miraculous last-second adjustment of his head that spared his life. Lots of folks are assessing who deserves blame for the attack. Concerns about the objectivity and reliability of the lead investigator – a deeply politicized FBI – were heightened by its announcement right out of the gate that the shooter killed at the scene “acted alone.” But Rep. Mike Waltz announced after a preliminary briefing for Congress that the man had three encrypted overseas accounts. We currently have Chinese soldiers, Iranian assassination squads and countless jihadists here. The FBI’s assertion that none of them were involved in this attack is wildly premature – and potentially fatally myopic. This is Frank Gaffney.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address Congress next week. The Biden administration continues pressing him to agree to a permanent ceasefire with Hamas, effectively translating into its victory over Israel. Fortunately, “Bibi” increasingly has another option: Hamas’ complete defeat. Despite Team Biden’s incessant interference – aimed at dragging out the conflict, propping up the terrorist regime in Gaza and toppling Netanyahu’s government, there is growing evidence that the jihadists are being systematically liquidated, cut off from their tunnels used for resupply and security and demoralized. Symbolically, the U.S. Army is pulling the plug on the insidious and costly “temporary port” that Samantha Power and other pro-Hamas Biden officials intended to save the terrorists. It’s past time to do the same with the rest of their anti-Israel policies, including the so-called “two state solution” just overwhelmingly, and rightly, rejected by the Israeli parliament. This is Frank Gaffney.
Negotiators in Geneva are frantically completing a Pandemic Treaty, the second in as many months, designed to give the World Health Organization ominous new powers – ostensibly to deal with “public health emergencies of international concern.” What’s the rush? First, they need to get these “global governance” accords in place while Joe Biden purports to be President. His administration supports empowering WHO’s Maoist Director General, whose bad COVID-19 prescriptions helped kill a million Americans. Second, the plan appears to be to subject the world this fall to yet another pandemic involving a strain of Bird Flu genetically modified to be transmissible to, and deadly for, human beings. Not to worry: there are three vaccines ready to be jabbed – and Team Biden has just given Moderna many millions to create an mRNA one. Who will stop the WHO and Friends from killing us again? This is Frank Gaffney.
As Republicans began their national convention yesterday, the Chinese Communist Party launched its Third Party Plenum. While the public agenda of this critical meeting is the need for economic reforms in China, it comes against the backdrop of a People’s War declared against the United States in May 2019. People’s War entails a whole-of-society mobilization. A key piece of it is putting the population of China on a war-footing. And an important part of that initiative entails assuring its food security. To that end, the CCP has amassed immense stockpiles of grains and other foodstuffs. Among other sources are farms and food production companies Chinese entities have, incredibly, been allowed to buy here. The GOP Convention needs to establish that the Chinese Communist Party is America’s mortal enemy. You can bet they know that at the Third Party Plenum. This is Frank Gaffney.
Despite the use Sunday night of a teleprompter during his nationally broadcast address concerning the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Joe Biden managed to utter twice a stunning Freudian slip. He declared that, “In America, we resolve our differences at the battle box. You know, that’s how we do it, at the battle box, not with bullets.” The White House transcribed the word battle as “battol” and struck it through next to “ballot” in brackets. But the normal spelling seems more consistent with Biden’s declaration to donors last week that, “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” Victor Davis Hanson has reminded us of sixteen other examples of celebrities espousing physical attacks on President Trump, including a popular play in New York’s Central Park. Such rhetoric must stop. But those who have indulged in it must be held accountable, as well. This is Frank Gaffney.
Two impending decisions will tremendously impact both America’s political future and our national security amidst what is arguably the most dangerous strategic environment ever. Joe Biden’s insistence that he will remain his party’s nominee and U.S. president intolerably exacerbates our present peril. The Chinese Communist Party and our other adversaries see an exploitable opportunity to engage in aggression with impunity, including here. Consequently, Joe must choose between voluntarily stepping aside or being compelled to do so. Meanwhile, Donald Trump must choose a running mate with the demonstrated competence to serve not only as president, but as the Commander-in-Chief under what could well be the most difficult imaginable conditions. Let us pray that American voters will be afforded the opportunity to cast ballots this fall in a free and fair election and have at least one ticket up to the task at hand. This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, amidst rising questions about President Joe Biden’s fitness to remain in office, House Democrats showed they’re unfit to govern. All but five of them opposed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, effectively endorsing the proposition that illegal aliens and other non-citizens should be able to vote in American elections. In short, Team Biden’s open borders disenfranchises actual citizens. Enabling foreigners to register to vote without proof of citizenship is hardly the only technique Democrats are using to steal this fall’s elections. Others include: universal mail-in ballots – many of which will be mailed to ineligible addresses that amount to “ballot mills”; Internet-connected tabulating machines; lawfare; and Big Tech manipulations. But yesterday’s action on the SAVE Act makes one thing clear: If we want free, fair and legitimate elections, the American people are going to have to compel the Democrats to allow them. This is Frank Gaffney.
Suddenly, there’s a lot of interest in who is actually running the U.S. government. Not a few of us are concerned that the fact that we don’t know the answer may have profound implications for our national security. That’s especially so given that Hunter Biden is reportedly playing an outsized role in his dad’s post-debate damage control. Hunter has a history of drug abuse and appalling personal misconduct. Worse, he’s personally taken millions of dollars from individuals he called leaders of the Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence services. Let’s be clear: This is a formula for disaster. Even if Joe Biden’s palpable physical incapacities did not argue for his immediate removal as Commander-in-Chief, having a controlled asset of our mortal enemy in the White House, let alone having any role in its operations, is absolutely a firing offense. Joe must go, now. This is Frank Gaffney.
This week in Washington, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will celebrate its founding seventy-five years ago. The party seems likely, though, to be as much a campaign event for Joe Biden’s reelection as a platform for affirming and renewing the alliance in an increasingly dangerous world. It comes as Team Biden struggles to persuade panicking Democrats that he should remain their nominee. But a man in Biden’s clearly enfeebled condition will likely be unable to stay awake throughout, let alone effectively run, the three days of meetings. So, will the leaders of NATO’s member nations be complicit at this critical juncture in the sort of fraud concerning Biden’s physical limitations that has been perpetrated by both domestic and foreign interlocutors for the past three and a half years? Doing so would undermine, rather than shore up, Americans’ necessary support for the alliance. This is Frank Gaffney.
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Host of Eyes On Israel
- Rabbi Pesach Wolicki and I visited about spiritual warfare and what it is doing at the moment in the Holy Land to endanger not just the people of Israel and their nation but also Judeo-Christian civilization at the hands, particularly of the red-green axis, the Sharia supremacists, and their Marxist allies on the other.
- We also spoke of what it would mean for the United States of America were they to succeed in their goal of destroying first Israel and then inexorably us as well.
Troy Miller, President and CEO of NRB
- Troy Miller and I discussed what's at stake this Fourth of July concerning freedom of speech and our other liberties and the efforts made by enemies, foreign and domestic, to constrain them, if not deprive them, deprive us of them permanently.
- We also spoke of what is going on in Israel at the moment, that is, posing a mortal threat to our most important allies, certainly in the Middle East, and the contribution to that imperiling being made by the Biden administration.
Brian Kennedy, Chairman of Committee on the Present Danger
- Brian Kennedy and I discussed on this Fourth of July holiday the magnificence of America, the brilliance of its founding principles and constitution, and the need to protect it from all enemies, foreign and domestic, especially the Chinese, who it seems are positioned to help steal our national election this fall.
Marxists’ favorite technique is the practice of blaming their opponents for the very behavior in which the Left is aggressively engaged.
A prime example of such projection is the Democrats’ desperate post-debate efforts to defend President Biden by describing him as a man of “character,” in contrast to his opponent, Donald Trump, who they accuse of repeated lying.
There’s arguably been no greater lie told in modern American politics than the contention that Joe Biden is fit to perform the functions of governing this country. Unless it’s that he’s a man of high character.
If – as Joe Biden insists – there’s actually a “congenital liar” in this presidential race, it’s the one in his mirror. His record of plagiarism, election fraud, serial betrayal of oath of office and country, to say nothing of misrepresenting his health, should and must be disqualifying.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Elections are not just about choosing a president. They’re also about policy choices. One of the most important this November is whether the United States will persist in policies that imperil the national security and the American people. Take the fundamental transformation of the military under the three Obama-Biden administrations. On July 4th, combat veteran Kurt Schlichter published an article in TownHall that correctly describes our armed forces as “destroyed.” Colonel Schlichter made the case not only for new leadership in the Pentagon. He also offered a series of practical ways in which it must be exercised if the services are to meet today’s acute challenges – and tomorrow’s. In short, America’s military must abandon divisive social experiments and debilitating distractions like fighting “climate change” and be properly led in its sole mission: namely, deterring wars and, when necessary, decisively winning them. This is Frank Gaffney.
As we celebrate today the independence from an unrepresentative, unaccountable and tyrannical foreign government that forged a new nation dedicated instead to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we must not only thank God for those blessings. We must pray for his help as we strive to “keep” our Republic. That’s because enemies, both foreign and domestic, abound and are on the march, determined to “fundamentally transform” America in ways that betray our countrymen who sacrificed everything for freedom in our Revolution and across the generations since. It falls to us to preserve that magnificent bequest. If we will not do so for ourselves, let us do so for our children and our children’s children in order that they may also know and enjoy the freedoms too many of us take for granted and assume will always be ours. This is Frank Gaffney.
An immortal Marx Brothers line was, “Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” After last week’s presidential debate, it’s the Democrat party line as they insist Joe Biden is completely fit to be president, despite what we all saw for ourselves. That’s especially astounding given what the Democrats were themselves saying even as Jill Biden was caught on camera helping her obviously enfeebled husband step off the stage. The clearly pre-orchestrated party line was: “Joe must go.” Now, like disciplined American communists who in 1941 went from extolling Hitler to denouncing him when he broke his odious alliance with Joe Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, they have pivoted en masse. Today, they insist, “Joe is good-to-go” for four more years. Believe your own eyes: He’s not good to remain as our Commander-in-Chief for even the next seven months. This is Frank Gaffney.
Twenty years ago yesterday, Hong Kong was surrendered to the Chinese Communist Party. I was there, and the sense of impending doom was profound. And with good reason. Four years ago yesterday, the CCP began in earnest what Barack Obama would call a “fundamental transformation” of Hong Kong. Now, it’s just another enslaved Chinese city. This anniversary compels reflection about what the Chinese Communists would do to Taiwan – or, for that matter, us – if they can. It also shows us what domestic Marxist Democrats are trying to engineer here. Yesterday too, Steve Bannon went to federal prison. Beforehand, he told Tucker Carlson we’re in a “war” with the people running Joe Biden and fundamentally transforming America. He described himself as a “prisoner of war.” Make no mistake: The Communists, foreign and domestic, want to do the same to the rest of us. This is Frank Gaffney.
Steve Bannon is a national treasure. Today, he becomes a political prisoner. My friend and valued colleague has been subjected to a Kafka-esque miscarriage of justice. He is to serve four months in federal prison for a misdemeanor. His ostensible crime was having contempt for the subpoena issued by a congressional committee that wrongfully insisted he violate executive privilege and, it turns out, was illegally constituted. The real purpose behind Steve’s incarceration over nearly all of the four months before this fall’s election is that he is a powerful leader of the Make America Great Again movement. Silencing him is part of the Democrats’ transparently totalitarian effort to decapitate their political opposition. Those undemocratically and unaccountably running Joe Biden – and the country – clearly intend to do the same next week to Donald Trump. Will they be allowed to get away with it? This is Frank Gaffney.
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.
Today is Flag Day and an appropriate occasion to reflect on the diminished presence of warships and other vessels proudly displaying ours on the world’s oceans – and an ominous consequence: Freedom of the seas is being increasingly threatened by the presence instead of hostile powers’ navies and what amount to pirates in strategic choke points and waters. Today, from the Panama Canal to the one in Suez to the straits of Taiwan, Hormuz, Malacca and the Bab el Mandeb, our own and others’ commercial and national security interests are at risk. An important webinar this afternoon will examine the role and implications of the Chinese Communist Party’s burgeoning fleet, dual-use shipping companies, controlled ports and proxies in enabling free maritime movement for “friends of China,” but not so much for the rest of us. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
What’s the single most debilitating of Joe Biden’s betrayals of America? Candidates include: destroying our borders, eviscerating our energy security, feeding inflation and enabling “global governance.” A particularly insidious contender is the prospect that Team Biden will end the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. Every American will suffer from, for example, its wonton printing of more greenbacks to pay for excessive government spending. Its proposed use of seized Russian financial assets or the interest they generate to pay for Ukraine’s defense further reduces confidence in holding dollars. And now the administration has allowed a fifty-year “petrodollar pact” with Saudi Arabia to expire, encouraging purchases of oil in Chinese and other currencies. There’s a race on to find gold-backed alternatives to the devaluing dollar. Our states could start minting them. If we don’t, it’s a matter of time until others do. This is Frank Gaffney.
Freedom’s flame burns a little less brightly today. Last night, America lost a man who loved liberty passionately and tirelessly used his enormous talents as an entertainer to help secure it. His name was Tony Lo Bianco and I was proud to call him a dear friend and mentor. In the course of a long career on and off Broadway and in Hollywood, Tony shone as one of our country’s brightest stars. His favorite role was surely that of the freedom-fighter who served as mayor of New York City for twelve turbulent years, Fiorello LaGuardia. Tony received an Emmy for his one-man rendering of “Hizzoner” and for decades continued adapting and performing it, inspiring generations of our countrymen and women with that Foreign-born American Patriot’s indefatigable love of this country. Thank you, Tony, for sharing yours with us so wonderfully. Godspeed, dear friend. This is Frank Gaffney.
The UN Security Council yesterday unanimously approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution it claims will bring peace to the Gaza Strip and Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. To add insult to great strategic injury of our most important ally, the Biden administration insists this is an Israeli plan. In fact, this phased plan is a fraud. It is not Israel’s proposal. What is, instead, Joe Biden’s plan is a formula for imposing a ceasefire in Gaza that is intended to be permanent, saving Hamas and perpetuating the threat Israel faces from that territory. Worse yet, the Biden fraud also entails a ceasefire in Israel’s north, leaving another of Iran’s proxies, the terrorist group Hezbollah, in place and the threat it poses that has driven ninety-thousand Israelis from their homes and businesses uncorrected. Americans stand with Israel. Joe Biden stands with her enemies. This is Frank Gaffney.
The Washington Post has accused my friend Russ Vought of pursuing a “post-constitutional” agenda. This is but the latest, if a particularly scurrilous, example of the Left’s technique of accusing others of what they are doing. Unlike too many in official Washington these days, Russ has consistently lived up to the oath he took during his extensive and distinguished public service to “support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” In fact, his effectiveness in doing so both in office and now in the private sector, explains why he’s currently being subjected to political warfare. Actually, “post-Constitutional” far better describes Team Biden’s agenda. Destroying our borders, prosecuting political opponents, ignoring Supreme Court decisions, and promoting “global governance” are but a few examples of conduct that Russ Vought and millions of other American patriots oppose – and will repudiate in November. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The third Obama-Biden administration continues to exhibit the influence of Saul Alinsky on his community-organizing acolyte, Barack Obama. Indeed, the last and most famous of Alinsky’s thirteen Rules for Radicals is being weaponized today more aggressively than ever. It reads: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.” In practice, this amounts to a political decapitation strategy aimed at prosecuting and, if possible, imprisoning Donald Trump. One of his key advisors, Peter Navarro, is currently serving hard time for so-called “contempt of Congress.” Another, Steve Bannon, will do so beginning July 1. Fortunately, far from such lawfare cutting off these Obama-Biden targets’ “support networks,” their prospective or actual incarceration is only increasing the resolve of American patriots to resist what amounts to real threats to democracy. This is Frank Gaffney.
Eighty years ago today, allied forces valiantly fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy. We honor all those whose service and sacrifice produced the unconditional surrender of the Nazis – and, in due course, the imperial Japanese – whose aggression ignited a world war. The planet’s complete liberation would take another year. The devastation entailed and the toll in lives, both military and civilian, would prove staggering, with non-combatants subjected to mass destruction with, other things, firebombs and two atomic weapons. It behooves us to remember that such extreme measures were deemed then both legitimate and necessary as contemporary critics of Israel’s campaign to defeat those who murderously attacked the Jewish State last year ignore her unprecedently successful efforts to minimize “collateral damage.” Israel is, moreover, as entitled as we were to insist on the unconditional surrender and complete eradication of her enemies. This is Frank Gaffney.
Israel is burning. Hezbollah missiles and drones are aimed at turning her northern areas into open-air crematoria while arsonists put to the torch forests elsewhere in the Jewish state that have been painstaking and proudly cultivated by generations of Israelis. Such attacks are not simply occurring as the Biden administration relentlessly undermines the government of Israel and its efforts to defeat Hamas. The daily betrayals by Israel’s most important ally are actually encouraging them. Look no further than the so-called “phased plan” for ending the war in Gaza that President Biden rolled out last week. It would not only guarantee the survival of Hamas. It would require Israel to cease its defensive operations against Hezbollah, too. And he’s going to the UN Security Council to compel Israel’s compliance. Americans overwhelmingly reject Biden’s anti-Israel policies. Fortunately, so do the people of Israel. This is Frank Gaffney.
In Geneva late Saturday night, the Biden administration, Communist China and other co-conspirators lawlessly launched a new mechanism for foisting “global governance” on all of us. They have also made necessary a new, worldwide fight for freedom. Liberty-loving Americans in particular need to mobilize to reject this leading edge of the globalists’ bid to turn the World Health Organization from an incompetent advisory body into one whose leader, Tedros Ghebreyesus, becomes a global public health dictator. This accord was the result of stealthy negotiations that proceeded until just before it was “agreed” – without an actual vote in a room reportedly largely vacated. That was only possible because Tedros and his enablers were willing to ignore the WHO’s own rules by precluding the required four-month review period. If the WHO won’t abide by its own “constitution,” we better believe it won’t respect ours. This is Frank Gaffney.
Donald Trump has been found guilty as not charged. The “crime” for which he was egregiously prosecuted in New York actually is that he ran for reelection. Had he not chosen to do so, it’s inconceivable that he’d have been subjected to six weeks of a Leninist show-trial and convicted of even a single felony – let alone thirty-four of them. The question requiring the closest of scrutiny is less what this black robe-enabled political lynching means for the former President and the sentence he’ll get four days before the start of the Republican National Convention, at which he will become his party’s nominee for the third time. Rather, it is how much damage will such a blatant miscarriage of justice do to what’s left of public confidence in the cornerstone of our constitutional Republic: namely, equal justice under law? This is Frank Gaffney.
It’s a time for heroes. One of them is former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. With God’s Grace, she’s been in Israel lately warning its leaders about the World Health Organization’s imminent power-grab, aimed at creating a new health dictatorship in furtherance of “global governance.” That’s a mortal threat to freedom-loving nations – starting with the Jewish State. After all, the would-be health dictator, WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus, would be able to sanction Israel for what he deems to be a “public health emergency of international concern” in Gaza. Israel and other freedom-loving nations must reject any such agreement still being negotiated in Geneva. As scores of top American leaders have pointed out, under the WHO’s own rules, last-minute deals are not in order. Heroic national leaders in Israel and elsewhere must heed Michele Bachmann and block Tedros’ impending, illegal and sovereignty-crushing accord. Now! This is Frank Gaffney.
In Geneva today, globalists are frantically cobbling together a new plan for destroying our constitutional freedoms. They diabolically claim negotiations have failed on a Pandemic Treaty intended to do that. Actually, they intend instead to approve a “Plan B” designed to accomplish that treaty’s main purpose by amending WHO regulations to establish “global governance” run by a Chinese Communist-controlled public health dictator. What they’re attempting is not only completely anti-constitutional. It’s also illegal under the World Health Organization’s own regulations, which require at least four months’ opportunity to review amendments to those rules. If even a single courageous world leader insists on that necessary right, the globalists’ Plan B can’t happen for the rest of this week’s meeting. Joe Biden actually favors this betrayal of American sovereignty. Let us pray that another nation’s leader will stand up to protect theirs – and ours. This is Frank Gaffney.
Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognized a non-existent state of “Palestine” today. They thus indulged in the sort of European virtue-signaling that has brought us such past “triumphs” of diplomacy as the 1928 Kellogg-Briand pact that banned war. Now as then, such delusional preening only emboldens aggressors, and makes achieving a real, let alone a durable, peace infinitely less likely. Let’s be clear: Today’s tripartite malfeasance is nothing less than a reward for the terrorists of Hamas and their part in the murderous invasion of Israel on October 7th. In fact, there simply is no Palestinian leader, political party or official entity that is actually committed to living “side-by-side in peace” with Israel. To the contrary, they all seek the destruction of the Jewish State. And, were they to get one of their own, it would only advance that cause. This is Frank Gaffney.
For eight hours overnight, our Sovereignty Coalition convened a Freedom Prayer event appealing to the Lord to defeat the Biden administration’s determined efforts to surrender our sovereignty to the World Health Organization.
This effort took on fresh urgency as the WHO’s Director General – who stands to become the most powerful man in history if either of the two proposed treaties is passed – has promised to “try everything” necessary to get them approved this week by the World Health Assembly.
An answer to prayer was received on Saturday, however, when President Trump denounced what is afoot. He declared: “I am hereby demanding that Joe Biden submit these monstrosities to the Senate as Treaties… because he cannot be allowed…to destroy our country. If he does not, I will rip them up and throw them out on Day One of the Trump administration.”
Hallelujah.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Chinese Communist emperor Xi Jinping and his Russian vassal, Vladimir Putin, got together again last week. The meeting in Beijing appears to fit a pattern in which such summits precede, and apparently set the stage for the participants to engage in, acts of coordinated aggression.
That was certainly true with respect to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’ invasion of Israel last year.
After Xi’s latest summit, China’s military has conducted what are described as “punishment exercises” encircling Taiwan with comprehensive air, army, missile and naval exercises. They coincided with bellicose denunciations of the inaugural address by Taiwan’s new president, William Lai, which may provide a pretext for war.
The question is: If Xi and Putin have agreed that the time is now right for offensive action against Taiwan, does their plan include disruptive operations inside the United States, as well?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, twenty-four Republican governors became the latest officials to decry Joe Biden’s attempt to surrender our sovereignty and personal freedoms to an unprecedented global medical tyrant, the World Health Organization’s Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus. In recent weeks, twenty-two GOP attorneys general have done the same. As have every member of the Republican conference in the United States Senate. Several questions occur: Where are the Democrats? Are Republicans the only people who will be terribly impacted if two treaties that are scheduled to be rubber-stamped next week by the World Health Assembly are approved? Are Republicans the only patriots who care about our freedoms and the Constitution that guarantees them? If not, now is the time for Democrats to join in a truly bipartisan rejection of the “global governance” gambit in prospect within days. Tell them to join us at SovereigntyCoalition.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden called an international court’s bid to prosecute Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu “outrageous.” The real outrage is that Biden’s administration evidently “greenlighted” this example of what we can expect from the “global governance” he prefers over national sovereignty.
Worse, Team Biden will mark Memorial Day – when we honor those who died protecting our constitutional Republic – by advancing in Geneva two, still-incomplete treaties calculated to do even more damage to nations like Israel and ours. They would transform the World Health Organization’s malfeasant Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, into a global dictator for public health.
Tomorrow, our “Sovereignty Summit” will showcase legislators from here and around the world who oppose this surrender of sovereignty and the prospect that a Communist like Tedros will abuse such new powers for transparently political agendas – including “climate change,” “migration” and “gun violence.” Join the livestream at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Welcome to the world of “global governance.” The international criminal court prosecutor wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested for alleged “war crimes.” It’s the so-called “world community’s” latest thuggish assault on a key American ally. These developments have two particularly troubling common denominators: One, they are disastrous for U.S. interests. And two, they have all been cynically encouraged by a Biden administration that publicly professes to oppose them. Next week, Team Biden intends to enable vastly worse abuses by globalists who hate freedom: It’s poised to surrender our sovereignty to a new medical tyrant, the Director General of the World Health Organization. On Thursday, we will host a Sovereignty Summit to showcase freedom-loving national leaders around the world rejecting such “global governance” and insisting that its perpetrators’ latest gambit not be foisted upon us next week. Join us at SovereigntyCoalition.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
Welcome to the world of “global governance.” The international criminal court prosecutor wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested for alleged “war crimes.” It’s the so-called “world community’s” latest thuggish assault on a key American ally. These developments have two particularly troubling common denominators: One, they are disastrous for U.S. interests. And two, they have all been cynically encouraged by a Biden administration that publicly professes to oppose them. Next week, Team Biden intends to enable vastly worse abuses by globalists who hate freedom: It’s poised to surrender our sovereignty to a new medical tyrant, the Director General of the World Health Organization. On Thursday, we will host a Sovereignty Summit to showcase freedom-loving national leaders around the world rejecting such “global governance” and insisting that its perpetrators’ latest gambit not be foisted upon us next week. Join us at SovereigntyCoalition.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
The past 24 hours have been bad for the Chinese Communist Party, but good for freedom. The CCP’s allies in Iran and Taiwan suffered strategic setbacks, heartening friends of liberty and America. The Iranian terrorist regime was rocked by the death in a helicopter crash of its president, Ebrahim Raisi, and others, setting off jubilant celebrations across the country and social media by those he had long repressed. The response underscores the people’s hostility towards tyranny. And Taiwan’s democracy swore in a new president, William Lai, committed to resisting intensifying Chinese threats to his nation and to our vital interests in the region. These developments half-a-world apart offer an opportunity for the Biden administration to demonstrate that its stands with the freedom-loving people of Iran and Taiwan, not those – both locally and in Beijing – determined to oppress them and threaten us. This is Frank Gaffney.
The U.S. Navy’s sailor in charge of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” was recently caught telling the truth about the so-called “woke” makeover of our armed forces. Senior Chief Thomas Riggs asserts it will all be jettisoned when Communist China attacks our first warship. Unfortunately, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Lisa Franchetti remains committed to this program – presumably, because she’d never have gotten that job but for Biden’s cultural Marxist policies. The question is, how many others in the armed forces are similar “diversity” hires, in command not because of combat performance-based merit, but because of some “identity” preference? And how many will needlessly die when the Chinese Communist Party consequently decides we’re too weak to resist their kinetic attacks? A recent, extraordinarily powerful webinar with other military truth-tellers suggests we are likely to find out the very hard way. This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The Chinese Communist Party has been at war with America for decades. Until recently, it has done so through non-violent – or, more accurately, pre-violent – “unrestricted warfare.” A new report, however, reveals that the CCP is enabling the violence-prone pro-Hamas demonstrations, encampments and occupations on college campuses across the country. As Breitbart summarizes: “The Shut It Down for Palestine movement, which has connections to the Chinese Communist Party through the Singham Network, uses protests and media campaigns to push anti-America and anti-Israel narratives and significantly contribute to social unrest.” In short, subversive philanthropies like George Soros’ Open Societies and the Tides Foundation are undermining America alongside the CCP, an enemy openly committed to destroying our nation. Where are those in government sworn to support and defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic? This is Frank Gaffney.
In Atlanta today, we’ll be holding the first of several urgent briefings in key swing states about what should be one of this year’s most important voting issues: The strategic arson creating a global conflagration properly dubbed not World War III, but World War Xi. After all, it was at a meeting two years ago between Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin that they announced a “No Limits Partnership.” Its first manifestation was Putin’s Chinese-enabled invasion of Ukraine. Successive meetings in Beijing between Xi and Iranian and Palestinian leaders preceded their invasion of Israel and ensuing, regional crises. And Venezuela’s tyrant Nicholas Maduro returned from a visit to Xi in China pledging to attack neighboring Guyana. The question occurs: Will today’s Beijing summit with Putin result in Xi’s next act of arson – perhaps against Taiwan, or even us? This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden’s sneaky bid to surrender U.S. sovereignty, states’ rights and Americans’ medical freedoms to the World Health Organization’s Director General is providentially running into increasing problems. Two weeks ago, every Republican senator formally rejected the idea of taking such a step. Then, twenty-two states’ attorneys general did the same. The chairman of the GOP in Georgia has encouraged his counterparts across the country to raise the alarm, as well. Now, there are reports that whole countries – starting with Great Britain and Slovakia – have indicated they will not approve the two WHO treaties still being negotiated with less than 12 days to go until they are scheduled to be rubber-stamped by the World Health Assembly. The U.S. and foreign Marxists driving this “global governance” gambit must be stopped. Tell your representatives to say “Not Now” to their power grab at SovereigntyCoalition.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
Former President Trump and congressional Republicans are rightly reviling Joe Biden’s suspension of weapons deliveries Israel requires to defend the Jewish State against the myriad enemies this administration has enabled and encouraged to attack her. Mr. Trump declared yesterday that Biden is “taking the side of the terrorists.” Actually, Team Biden is doing everything possible to reward Hamas for its terrorism, by trying simultaneously to overthrow the elected Israeli government and to create a Palestinian state, including building a port to prop up Hamas. With recent polling indicating that eighty percent of Americans stand with Israel, not Hamas, Joe Biden is not only on the wrong side in the Middle East, he is pursuing policies that are strategically disastrous for America, as well as Israel. While denouncing such betrayals is a necessary step, Republicans must now act to prevent them. This is Frank Gaffney.
The Biden administration’s outrageous efforts to surrender our nation’s sovereignty and personal medical freedoms to a Chinese Communist Party asset running the World Health Organization turns out to have another problem: It would also supplant U.S. states’ rights to make decisions on public health, a power the federal government is not assigned under the Constitution – and, therefore, is not entitled to give away to Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus or anybody else. This position was powerfully declared yesterday by twenty-two state attorneys general in the second formal throwdown throw-down with President Biden over the WHO in as many weeks. Like every Republican member of the Senate, these states’ senior legal officers reject the accords still being stealthily negotiated less than three weeks before they are supposed to be approved. That approval must not happen. Join these American patriots in saying so at SovereigntyCoalition.org. This is Frank Gaffney.
Dr. David Wurmser, Director of CSP's Program on Fighting Global Anti-Semitism and defending the US-Israel relationship
- We discussed the latest developments in Gaza and the Middle East.
- We examined whether the Biden administration is engaging in anti-Semitism by putting Israel in extreme peril through its actions and its inactions as well.
Peter Mcilvenna, Hearts of Oak
- We explored the electoral and other developments in the United Kingdom concerning the rising power of primarily Muslim immigrants.
- The extent to which Muslim immigrants are mutating British policy and electoral prospects.
Bill Walton, Host of The Bill Walton Show
- We discussed the latest developments concerning the World Health Organization and the imperative need to prevent the adoption of two deeply insidious treaties.
- Explored Xi Jinping's efforts to divide us from our allies in Europe and the undermining of Israel by the Biden team.
Secret government documents reveal the COVID-19 virus came from a Chinese military laboratory and China covered up that fact. Our blue-ribbon Team B III reached those conclusions two years ago – as Biden’s intelligence community adamantly denied them and the even darker reality: Once this biological weapon was out of the lab, the CCP deliberately spread it here and worldwide.
What makes these revelations particularly critical is that a man who did as much to mislead us about the origins, nature and response to the COVID pandemic as did his masters in Beijing is the World Health Organization’s Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus. Consequently, a million Americans and countless others needlessly died.
Yet, in nineteen days, Joe Biden proposes to make this murderous Chinese agent the dictator of U.S. public health. Every Senate Republican has said no way. Join them, and us, today at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Today, Joe Biden will memorialize the Holocaust with a denunciation of anti-Semitism. His address will likely join myriad other examples of this president’s dishonesty, especially of late with respect to the State of Israel.
Biden has repeatedly professed support for that nation – the world’s single most important bulwark against anti-Jewish bloodlettings. And, until recently, his administration has provided some resupply of Israeli weapon stocks.
Yet, Team Biden has increasingly intervened to save Hamas, the terrorist organization that perpetrated on October 7th the worst act of anti-Jewish violence since the Holocaust.
It would be in keeping with such bad faith if the president tries today to pander to his partisans’ growing pro-Hamas sentiment by suggesting that anti-Zionism is not, in fact, anti-Semitism or hatred of Jews is morally equivalent to so-called “Islamophobia.” Both are lies and must be repudiated as such.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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The Israeli government is beginning, at last, the final stage of its liberation of Gaza from Hamas. That’s good news for the eighty percent of us who, according to a recent poll, support Israel, not those seeking “Death to America,” as well as “Death to Israel.” The Biden administration, however, has of late been doing everything it can to save Hamas. That reportedly includes plans to add Gazans to the more than 400,000 illegal aliens from jihadist nations and elsewhere around the world that it’s secretively flown here. They won’t get to airports though if the Rafah operation precludes the use of the Gaza port our Army is insanely building to exfiltrate more unvetted Islamists to the United States. The uprisings on American campuses signal what’s in store for us. Israel must finish the job, for her survival and ultimately ours. This is Frank Gaffney.
Donald Trump has commendably said the quiet part out loud about the so-called “two-state solution” to the conflict between Israel and those in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East who seek her destruction. In a recent interview he observed, “I am not sure a two-state solution is gonna work.” The idea that the Jewish State would be able to live side-by-side in peace with a Palestinian one always evoked Samuel Johnson’s famous description of second marriages: “The triumph of hope over experience.” Today, it is a complete non-starter. Under any remotely possible scenario, “two-states” would inevitably result in the outcome pro-Hamas demonstrators across America now genocidally demand – namely, the elimination of Jews “from the river to the sea.” A recent poll indicates 80 percent of Americans support Israel, not Hamas. Thank you, President Trump for doing the same. This is Frank Gaffney.
Good news for a change, folks! The Hand of God is on our troubled land!
I consider it truly providential that Senator Ron Johnson has secured the support of every one of his Republican colleagues for a letter urging President Biden to defer approval of two World Health Organization treaties currently planned for later this month – even though they are still being negotiated. What is more, fully half the Senate is now co-sponsoring the Senator’s legislation that would ensure that chamber performs its constitutional duty to vote on such treaties.
These initiatives put the Biden administration squarely on notice: Its stealthy attempt to surrender our national sovereignty, states rights and personal medical freedoms to the WHO’s odious Director General is, as the Senators put it, “Dead on Arrival.”
Join us in supporting these legislators in their divinely appointed mission at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Communist holiday of May Day is an appropriate moment to reflect on the help American “friends” of China are providing to that country’s nuclear, naval and other preparations for a shooting war against us.
On April 26th, a webinar by our Committee on the Present Danger: China cataloged how Wall Street and Silicon Valley have long enabled the transfer of trillions of dollars and untold intellectual property and dual-use technology to the CCP and its People’s Liberation Army.
And a new report from the Coalition for a Prosperous America documents how BlackRock and its main index-fund provider, MSCI, are even now investing millions of dollars in some thirty ominous Chinese entities, including two directly involved in the CCP’s massive nuclear weapons build-up.
The Biden administration wants more “engagement” with China. This kind is going to get a lot of us killed.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Amidst intensifying color-revolutionary activity on college campuses mounted by the Red-Green alliance of communists and Sharia-supremacists, the Biden administration seeks new ways coerce Israel to surrender to Hamas. “Global governance” is the newest technique.
For example, Team Biden has reportedly greenlighted the International Criminal Court’s impending indictment of Israeli leaders.
In four weeks, moreover, Biden wants to subject the United States and Israel, among other nations, to two treaties that would allow Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, to declare “public health emergencies of international concern” – and dictate what must be done in response.
Ghebreyesus considers Gaza to be such an emergency. And it is predictable that, if he is given those dictatorial powers, he will use them to sanction Israel, and probably any country that supports her.
Join us in rejecting this ominous gambit at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Welcome to the world of “global governance.” The International Criminal Court evidently is poised to indict and require the arrest of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders. Such a step would not only effectively declare the Jewish State a criminal one. It would advance a larger agenda of weaponizing supranational institutions against the United States and/or its allies.
President Donald Trump rightly issued an executive order establishing that he would impose sanctions on the ICC staff if they attacked U.S. or allied personnel in this fashion. Joe Biden, however, rescinded that order and his administration has reportedly now “greenlighted” these indictments in furtherance of its own increasing coercion of Netanyahu and his government.
Biden’s embrace of “global governance” at the expense of national sovereignty is a formula for a world more hostile to freedom, and America.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Before Russia’s Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he met with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing. Before Israel was invaded, Iranian and Palestinian leaders did the same.
And after Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro returned from meeting Xi in China’s capital, he announced that he would invade Guyana – an as-yet unfulfilled threat or, more to the point, an unexecuted order.
Could yet another invasion loom after Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s current visit with Xi in Beijing?
Actually, the Chinese Communist Party has already illegally inserted into this country multiple divisions-worth of unaccompanied, fighting-age men, apparently personnel of the People’s Liberation Army.
If the CCP regards Blinken and Joe Biden, who have allowed this invasion, to be – like Xi’s aforementioned interlocutors – its “controlled assets,” our home front may soon be the locus of the next act of strategic arson by Xi Jinping.
God help us.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In July 2020, candidate Joe Biden promised Sharia-supremacists that, in exchange for their votes, he would appoint Muslims to staff his administration.
Moderate Muslim Zuhdi Jasser warned shortly after the start of the Biden presidency that it was “a Trojan Horse that concealed the extent to which the Red-Green Alliance of the far-left progressives and Islamists are being given the reins.” The result has been nothing short of disastrous for our country, its Mideast allies – especially Israel, and vital interests abroad and increasingly at home. Look no further than Columbia University.
The Biden Islamists’ latest success is a new State Department report on Human Rights Practices. It treats Israel as “a worse human rights abuser than [China, Russia, Iran and the Taliban].” This monstrous lie is yet-another gift to jihadists who seek not only “Death to Israel,” but “Death to America.”
This is Frank Gaffney.
Before his first presidential election, Barack Obama promised to “fundamentally transform” America. Today, evidence abounds of the devastation wrought by Obama-Biden’s three terms on, for example: our Constitution, economy, energy security, military, borders and society.
Moreover, in just thirty-two days, Joe Biden plans to effect what may be the single most sweeping transformation to date: using two treaties being stealthily negotiated with the World Health Organization to surrender our national sovereignty, eviscerate states’ rights and strip us of our medical and other freedoms.
Fortunately, a Capitol Hill press conference last week revealed serious and growing opposition from Congress, the conservative movement and the American people to giving the WHO’s top bureaucrat absolute control over our public health policy decisions. An emergency campaign to block this utterly anti-constitutional arrangement is now underway.
Join us today at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The bad news is that Columbia University and other campuses across America are under siege. The worse news is that a growing number of the perpetrators are calling for “Death to America” – and mean it literally.
They are backed by Communist and Islamist organizations, comprising the aptly named “Red-Green axis,” including the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to a secret plan seized from that organization’s archives twenty years ago and introduced into evidence by the U.S. government during the nation’s largest terrorism finance trial, the Muslim Brothers’ seek to destroy the United States.
This “explanatory memorandum” describes their mission in America as a “kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.”
The Muslim Brotherhood and its Communist allies are “enemies domestic.” And those who have sworn an oath to defend our Constitution against them must do so now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden’s administration is about to further undermine Israel amidst a four-front war imperiling the Jewish State’s survival – a war invited and fueled by his previous policies. Those included: support for the overthrow of Israel’s elected government and open-ended appeasement and bankrolling of Iran’s terrorist regime.
Then, after Hamas murderously invaded Israel, Team Biden has increasingly acted to protect it, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran from decisive attacks by the Israel Defense Forces.
Now, Benedict Biden is reportedly poised to sanction, and potentially incapacitate, an IDF brigade currently engaged in combat operations in Gaza, Lebanon, and the Golan over human rights abuses alleged by an apparent Iranian front group. Coupled with $9 billion in what amounts to aid to Hamas awaiting final approval by the Senate, it seems clear that with friends like Joe Biden, Israel needs none of its other enemies.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Overnight, Israel’s military retaliated for massive Iranian missile and drone attacks launched against the Jewish State last weekend. At this point, the magnitude and impact of the Israeli response is unclear.
But the fact that the Iranian regime is still in business suggests it was tailored to minimize further conflicts with a Biden administration now increasingly palpably working to defend the mullahs, as well as their jihadist proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen.
At this point, there is only one response to “the wider regional war” Team Biden laughably says it is determined to prevent, but that is actually being relentlessly waged against Israel by all the aforementioned: The Israelis must use to the fullest their might and skills to assist the former Shah’s son, Reza Pahlavi, in his intensifying efforts to help the people of Iran finally liberate their country.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Finally, someone in official Washington has decided to tell the truth about the Chinese Communist Party’s genocidal chemical warfare against America. A House Select Committee reported yesterday that the blame for devastating carnage being wrought here via the deliberate weaponization of fentanyl lies squarely with our mortal enemy: the CCP.
Among other chilling conclusions, the panel’s investigation revealed that, “The Chinese Communist Party promotes the fentanyl crisis through government programs, protects fentanyl traffickers operating within its borders, and directly benefits from the fentanyl crisis.”
The Select Committee described the resulting devastation as equivalent to having a jetliner with 200 people aboard crash here every single day.
As monstrous as this form of Beijing’s comprehensive unrestricted warfare is, the fact that the CCP has, so far, gotten away with it completely is even worse. A painful cost must be extracted, starting now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In 1973, amidst a war that began with a surprise attack on Israel by Arab enemies determined to destroy the Jewish State, President Richard Nixon ordered an emergency resupply of our ally. House Speaker Mike Johnson has decided to move immediately long-overdue legislation that would help our Israeli allies now under fire from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran.
Unfortunately, Joe Biden is restricting weapons purchases Israel requires todefend its people and defeat her enemies – and ours. Worse, he’s funding those foes and otherwise protecting them from decisive Israeli retaliation.
Like Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer despicably professes his commitment to Israel while working to overthrow her elected government and delaying the sort of legislation Speaker Johnson is prioritizing and the House first passed months ago.
Shmuck Schumer and Benedict Biden must stop betraying Israel, and America.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Iran just fired 300 missiles at Israel. For various reasons – including concerted defensive efforts by the Jewish State, American forces and even Jordan – miraculously, nearly all failed to cause damage.
President Biden wants the Israelis to forego retaliation, telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. supports Israel, but not any offensive operation against the mullahs.
Evidently, having aided Israel’s defense, Team Biden now intends to defend Iran.
Congressional Republicans finally appear ready to really help Israel. That requires: emergency resupply of her greatly depleted arsenal; investigating the Biden administration’s foreknowledge of and culpability in this Iranian assault; and standing with Israel as she responds.
Clearly, the only hope of preventing the ayatollahs from doing far worse in the future is to assist the Iranian people in ending the regime that oppresses them and genocidally threatens Israel, and us.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida yesterday urged Americans to overcome “an undercurrent of self-doubt” about our role in a world now at “history’s turning point.”
Actually, what millions of us are doubting is the quality of our leadership at such a moment. Congressional leaders warn that we’re in “a new Cold War” with the Chinese Communist Party and are finally launching hearings into the CCP’s political warfare here.
There’s an elephant in the room, however, that has yet to be formally acknowledged, let alone corrected: As retired CIA spy Sam Faddis has observed, in the lexicon of recruiting and running agents, President Joe Biden would be characterized as “a controlled asset of the Chinese Communist Party.”
We can’t win a cold war, let alone the now-looming hot one, with leadership whose loyalty and conduct we have plenty of reason to doubt.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Western Pacific will get some welcome attention today with the Japanese Prime Minister making an address to a joint session of Congress and summiting with President Biden and their Philippino counterpart. Unfortunately, the needed display of allied solidarity and resolve in countering the Chinese Communist Party’s intensifying aggression throughout the region has just been undercut by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s latest appeasement tourism in Beijing.
That’s a seriously fraught message to be sending even as the CCP’s forces are routinely assaulting Philippine vessels and penetrating Japanese airspace and waters – as they are those of a fourth strategically critical, but uninvited, regional partner: Taiwan.
At a time when Team Biden is actively betraying its most important ally in the Mideast, Israel, there is no room for signaling that America is determined to undermine any others by “engaging” with the CCP.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In just 47 days, the Biden presidency hopes to pull off what may be its most insidious and far-reaching violation of the oath of office sworn by every one of its employees, so help them God: Rather than “support and defend” the U.S. Constitution, they will be replacing it with two international treaties that will render every American subject to “global governance.”
Of course, you didn’t vote to make the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the dictator of public health in our country.
Actually, you haven’t even been consulted about this new arrangement.
Fortunately, we are launching today an emergency campaign to defeat this stealthy travesty. Join us at SovereigntyCoalition.org in telling Joe Biden “Not Now” to his impending betrayal and demanding that the Senate do its duty by preventing such diabolical, anti-constitutional treaties from crushing our freedoms.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Since the Nazis killed six million Jews, we have promised “Never again.” Today, thanks to Joe Biden’s intensifying betrayal of the modern Jewish State, “Again” is now a distinct possibility.
In fact, after Israel was genocidally attacked on October 7th, the Biden administration has combined professions of commitment to her survival and arms resupply with a series of initiatives that have encouraged, enabled and emboldened her enemies – and ours – to believe they can achieve their stated goal of destroying the Jews and their nation.
These include acting to: save Hamas; fund its Iranian backer; create what would inevitably be a new Palestinian terror state; and decapitate Israel’s democratically elected government.
A new poll reveals that, by a margin of 79 to 21 percent American voters support Israel. So, Joe Biden is not only betraying our Jewish ally. He’s betraying us. Again.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Over the weekend, Israel withdrew most of its combat forces from southern Gaza in the wake of Joe Biden’s threats to cut back the U.S. supply of weapons vital to the defense of the Jewish State and his aggressive efforts to bring down the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Has the President accomplished his evident goal of saving Hamas?
If so, Biden’s betrayal of the Jewish State is all more outrageous in light of mounting evidence that undermines his latest pretexts for doing so: First, it appears Hamas engineered the incident in which Israel’s military unintentionally killed seven aid workers. And second, Israel’s apparent elimination of a top Iranian commander in Damascus recently was fully justified as he reportedly personally orchestrated Hamas’ murderous October 7th invasion.
A new poll confirms that American voters overwhelmingly support Israel.
So should Joe Biden.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Yesterday, President Biden and Secretary of State Tony Blinken threatened that if Israel does not change its operations in Gaza, U.S. policy towards supporting the Jewish State will change. Translation: Unless Benjamin Netanyahu’s government saves Hamas, America will no longer resupply the weapons required to defeat it.
The Biden administration is also reportedly conducting a four-pronged campaign to overthrow the Israeli government.
What is now in distinct prospect is an American-driven defeat of an allied nation that will make Team Biden’s betrayal and destruction of Afghanistan pale by comparison. While the Israelis are hoping to secure further U.S. help with expanded humanitarian assistance that principally props up Hamas, their enemies –and ours – now foresee that they will surely be able eventually, if not soon, to drive the Jews “from the river to the sea.”
Biden’s Afghanistan 2.0 must be repudiated now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is off to China, reportedly to affirm America’s commitment to building up the Chinese Communist Party’s “green” manufacturing sector. This is what passes for energy policy in the Biden administration: dismantle our fossil fuel production capacity and increase our reliance on our mortal enemy to keep the lights on and transportation moving here.
Yellen’s latest act of groveling tourism follows yet-another Biden phone call this week with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. Official “read-outs” suggest the U.S. government remains committed to such “engagement” with the PRC, even as China prepares for a shooting war.
Specifically, the CCP is ratcheting up actual violence against the Philippines, intensifying its threats to Taiwan and Japan, redoubling “unrestricted” cultural and other pre-kinetic warfare against us and inserting ever-more unaccompanied fighting age males across our open borders.
What could possibly go wrong? Everything.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The loss of seven individuals tragically killed by Israeli forces while feeding Palestinians in Gaza has prompted other aid organizations to suspend operations until, we’re told, they are satisfied “it’s safe.”
Memo to all such organizations: Gaza is not safe. It is a war zone in which local and foreign civilians are at unavoidably some risk.
That’s substantially because Israel is fighting an enemy that intensifies that risk by using such civilians as not just human shields, but as weapons. The more killed the better for the information warfare Hamas terrorists are counting on to survive.
There are only two ways truly to end the suffering of non-combatants in this war. Hamas can unconditionally surrender or be decisively defeated. Any other outcome is a formula for far more death and destruction of innocents throughout the Middle East and, inevitably, here.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander responsible for that terrorist group’s operations in and from Syria and Lebanon was killed yesterday in a consular building in Damascus. Israel has not taken responsibility, but is presumed to have pulled off the airstrike that killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi and six other jihadists.
The UN Security Council will convene this afternoon to denounce that attack on a diplomatic compound. But its use by Iranian terrorists is a fresh reminder of the evil nature of the enemy Israel confronts – as do we. The IRGC and its proxies also routinely use hospitals, schools and mosques as arsenals, headquarters and staging sites for attacks, typically against Israeli civilians.
While Israel strives to minimize casualties among non-combatants, in a war for its very survival, the Jewish State cannot allow its mortal enemies diabolically to use such sites as sanctuaries.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Biden administration reportedly wants to put American forces on the ground in Gaza. Clearly, there’s a desperate need for adult supervision, and urgent course corrections, regarding Team Biden’s policy towards Israel and the war upon which her very survival depends.
Israeli media quote the seriously deficient Joint Chiefs Chairman, General C.Q. Brown, as saying Washington seeks a “joint U.S.-Israeli command center in Rafah.”
Best case, such an arrangement would embroil our military personnel in deadly fighting in that densely packed urban center. More likely, and by design, it would create a further impediment to Israeli efforts to defeat Hamas decisively.
The Israelis rightly do not want others fighting their wars. Especially after last week’s American betrayal at the U.N. and Team Biden’s impending, insidious Trojan Horse port in Gaza, the job of defending the Jewish State must remain Israel’s alone.
This is Frank Gaffney.
A foreign-owned and -operated ship just destroyed an important bridge in Baltimore, with devastating impact on its port and people and still-cascading disruptions in the U.S. transportation, commercial and trade sectors.
While the official inquiry into what happened has just gotten underway, the huge container vessel in question, known as the Dali, clearly had myriad electrical and other physical problems and a checkered record of unsafe operations.
Whether this disaster proves to have been nothing more than a terrible accident, however, it is already evident that deliberate efforts to disrupt, or even take down, America’s vast critical infrastructure could be easily mounted with potentially catastrophic effects on this country’s population, society and economy.
An extremely timely webinar today will examine whether our enemies are poised to exploit such vulnerabilities and whether anything is being done to prevent that. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement yesterday that the House will launch a formal impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden surely starts the countdown to the President’s early departure from office.
Of course, the Senate seems unlikely to convict when, not if, the House impeaches this Chief Executive for bribery, other high crimes and misdemeanors and, deservedly, for treason. Rather, he’ll have to go because even his own partisans will conclude that his position is untenable, and they stand to suffer politically if he remains in office.
No patriotic American can relish the prospect that, at least for a time, Kamala Harris might – like her running-mate – become President-in-name-only. But she, too, will have to go lest she precipitate a GOP electoral landslide too big to steal.
Fraught history is being made and we must pray the Republic survives it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The upcoming annual meetings of national leaders and international bureaucrats at the United Nations generally don’t matter. Unfortunately, an event there on September 20th could prove extremely consequential – and dangerously so.
Member nations are expected to endorse a so-called “political declaration” that commits them to abide by and otherwise support a set of sweeping “global governance” undertakings wholly incompatible with our national security and sovereignty.
For example, the World Health Organization would be empowered to dictate what constitutes an actual or potential health emergency, not only for humans, but plants and animals, too – and what must be done in response.
The UN declaration also endorses censorship; “sharing” newly discovered viruses; and “digital transformation” of “Big Data.” As our special program with Steve Bannon yesterday made clear, such “global governance” would mean the end of freedom worldwide.
Say “No” at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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.
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.
Timing is everything. The party Chinese dictator Xi Jinping planned to have in South Africa this week was meant to showcase his country’s emergence as the pillar of a new economic alliance intended to topple the dollar as the world’s reserve currency with an alternative reportedly backed in some fashion by gold.
The only problem is that the Chinese Communist Party is in a growing economic crisis. Its real estate bubble has burst. Its banks are saddled with unmanageable debt. Its exports are down. And it’s said to be looking for a trillion dollar bailout.
Who do you think the CCP expects to provide that kind of money? The short answer is YOU, through your pension funds, other investments or federal taxes.
Under no circumstances should Wall Street or Washington be further underwriting an enemy simultaneously seeking our economic and national destruction.
Amen.
This is Frank Gaffney.
A Chinese Communist Party that has bought American “elites” is reaping now a huge return on that investment. A chilling webinar yesterday shows Team Biden and other “friends” of China are scrambling to save that mortal enemy from possibly imminent financial disaster.
For example, Biden has lately effectively enabled further, reckless technology transfers to China by issuing a deceptively limited executive order and then by renewing a bilateral accord that facilitates sharing with Beijing the fruits of American science and technology.
For its part, Wall Street is pretending there’s no reason to cut its clients’ potentially immense losses in China by an urgent sell-off. To the contrary, it’s promoting further, vast investments there via two new IPOs.
Stealthily propping up the CCP as it works feverishly to undermine the dollar and prepares for a shooting war is nothing short of treason.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In a widely viewed interview last night, Tucker Carlson asked Donald Trump more than once: “Will there be a civil war?”
Mr. Trump deflected, simply noting that there’s a lot of “passion” and “hatred” out there. What’s also true is that Team Biden seems to be intent on inflaming those sentiments.
For example: Biden’s administration is launching so-called COVID “protocols” involving renewed mandates for masks, lockdowns and mail-in ballots. Its Central Bank Digital Currency will allow government control of our money. And fourteen mostly Democratic-run cities plan to end consumption of meat and dairy products and ownership of private vehicles by 2030.
President Biden’s proposed entrusting of our military to General C.Q. Brown, a man who believes the United States is a systematically racist country, raises the further question: Would the armed forces be weaponized to violently suppress prospective resistance?
This is Frank Gaffney.
As Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo prepares for the fourth trip to China in recent weeks by a pandering U.S. Cabinet officer, her department announced that 27 Chinese companies would be removed from its so-called “Entities List.” Supposedly, Biden administration concerns about American exports to those companies improving the capabilities of China’s military have been satisfactorily addressed.
Now, any exports of inherently dual-use technologies to the Chinese Communist Party will wind up in the hands of its People’s Liberation Army. Period.
Worse yet, green-lighting such transfers under present circumstances can only reinforce Xi Jinping’s expectations that he’ll be rewarded, not punished, for more belligerence. That’s a formula for a shooting war.
We must deter, not encourage such a prospect via further, rank appeasement – especially in the face of the CCP’s intensifying assault on the dollar and unmistakable preparations for conflict.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Timing is everything. The party Chinese dictator Xi Jinping planned to have in South Africa this week was meant to showcase his country’s emergence as the pillar of a new economic alliance intended to topple the dollar as the world’s reserve currency with an alternative reportedly backed in some fashion by gold.
The only problem is that the Chinese Communist Party is in a growing economic crisis. Its real estate bubble has burst. Its banks are saddled with unmanageable debt. Its exports are down. And it’s said to be looking for a trillion-dollar bailout.
Who do you think the CCP expects to provide that kind of money? The short answer is YOU, through your pension funds, other investments or federal taxes.
Under no circumstances should Wall Street or Washington be further underwriting an enemy simultaneously seeking our economic and national destruction.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Kevin Freeman is America’s foremost expert on economic warfare. He’s warned for years about the many ways in which the Chinese Communist Party has waged it against our country.
Of particular concern is the progress the CCP and friends have made in taking down the dollar as the world’s reserve currency – abetted by its relentless devaluation by our own government.
The Chinese Communists have made significant strides in recent months with their commodity purchases in China’s currency. And this week, the so-called BRICS nations and others are expected to launch a new, multilateral dollar-replacement tied somehow to gold.
Kevin Freeman’s superb new book, Pirate Money, shows how U.S. states can constitutionally issue their own gold- and silver-backed digital currencies as American alternatives to the BRICS scheme and the Federal Reserve’s ominous Central Bank Digital Currency. Read Pirate Money – then let’s get some!
This is Frank Gaffney.
Earlier this week, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, an American patriot and prominent Muslim reformer, warned that the Turkish-backed, stealthy-jihadist Muslim Brotherhood has deeply penetrated the Biden administration and exercises dangerous influence over its policies.
That probably explains Team Biden’s inaction with respect to an unfolding genocide Turkey and its proxy, Azerbaijan, are perpetrating against Armenian Christians in a region historically called Nagorno-Karabach. 120,000 followers of Jesus, are currently being starved to death by a Sharia-supremacist nation still treated as a NATO ally and its surrogate.
During a staggeringly alarming webinar yesterday, former Senator and Ambassador Sam Brownback called for punishing sanctions on Turkey and Azerbaijan unless they stop preventing food, medicine and other necessities from reaching Christians in what is now formally the Republic of Artsakh. Amen!
This is Frank Gaffney.
You don’t have to embrace conspiracy theories about how a lot of Maui just burned up to feel uneasy about plans the state government of Hawaii had for the island before the fire. A Hawaii Digital Government Summit scheduled for next month in Maui, suggests Governor Josh Green and his subordinates envision it becoming a Smart Island.
The word “Smart” these days actually means “Control.” Smart Meters, Smart Appliances, Smart Cities, and most especially Smart Medical Cards, Vaccine Passports and other IDs, are means of turning over data, and ultimately decisions about your life, to somebody else. Inevitably, that will mean the government.
If fundamentally transforming a tropical paradise into a digital gulag repels you, brace for what the “Smart People” behind giving the World Health Organization dictatorial powers have in mind for all of us.
Learn more at www.SovereigntyCoalition.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Have you heard that among the illegal immigrants taking advantage of Joe Biden’s open border in recent months are thousands of physically fit, military-age Chinese men carrying similar backpacks and seemingly moving in groups?
While the Biden-induced migration of millions has been correctly characterized as “an invasion,” it appears Communist China is literally engaged in one.
Based on observing these Chinese men firsthand, former special operator-turned veteran combat reporter Michael Yon believes they’re likely People’s Liberation Army soldiers.
If so, this is no drill. They will be capable of causing deadly mayhem here if the CCP starts a shooting war against us.
Apparently, nothing is being done to interrogate or monitor, let alone arrest, these individuals. To the contrary, like other illegal migrants, you’re paying to disseminate them all over the country.
Any lingering doubt about who Joe Biden is working for?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted again. This time, he and eighteen others have been accused of “racketeering” for challenging the legitimacy of the 2020 election and seeking redress.
At the core of this Trump indictment among others is the proposition that those who contend that election was stolen are perpetrating a completely unfounded “Big Lie.” Prosecutors are asserting that, at least in some instances, the effort to prove otherwise was actually criminal.
Yet, new revelations show officials have known for nearly three years about evidence of “widespread voter fraud” in Michigan via an apparently well-organized effort by a Biden-connected group called “GBI Strategies.” It evidently operated in other states, as well.
Will the truth about these and many other 2020 election “irregularities” be on trial – or just the targets of obvious political warfare against Donald Trump and his team?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Good news: American patriots in Michigan just induced a Chinese Communist Party company not to buy 250 acres of prime farmland in the heart of Michigan.
A group called “Choose Freedom” has been raising an alarm about the CCP’s plan to build a lithium-ion battery plant for electric vehicles with $750 million in state subsidies and concessions. While other elements of this initiative that threatens the environment and national security are still afoot, this partial victory should prompt Michigan and federal authorities to pull the plug on the rest.
That should also be done regarding the CCP’s purchases of other agricultural land here which, according to a Daily Mail investigation, involve 400,000 acres worth $2 billion, up from $160 million ten years ago. The Chinese would never allow such an arrangement there, and we shouldn’t tolerate it here, either.
This is Frank Gaffney.
An important American ally is under actual assault by the Chinese Communist Party – and it’s not Taiwan, yet.
Beijing is using water cannons and Coast Guard vessels to blockade a strategically located atoll called Second Thomas Shoal on which the Philippines has demonstrated its sovereignty by grounding and manning an old U.S. Navy warship. Thanks to a past American failure, push is literally coming to shove.
Barack Obama gave his Vice President, Joe Biden, the job of preventing the Chinese from turning other atolls they had seized into fortified bastions. Biden failed abysmally, but perhaps profitably.
The Chinese now have the ability to enforce their claim to the entire South China Sea. If we don’t help the Filippinos contest it, we will inevitably lose access to their vital bases and further catalyze the CCP’s next, violent assertion of sovereignty over Taiwan.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Biden signed yesterday an executive order that is supposed to restrict U.S. investment in Chinese artificial intelligence and other high-tech fields relevant to the PRC’s ominous military build-up. Unfortunately, Mr. Biden is trying to close the proverbial barn-door a decade after he personally let the horse out.
A timely Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar on Tuesday documented that, in 2013, Vice President Joe Biden engineered a sweetheart deal giving Chinese Communist companies privileged access to American capital markets.
The CCP thereafter garnered an estimated $3 to 6 trillion from mostly unwitting U.S. investors to gain, among other things, decisive technological advantages with profound commercial, as well as national security, implications.
Biden’s new executive order must now be implemented faithfully – and extended to all other U.S. investments that recklessly enrich, empower and embolden our mortal enemy: the Chinese Communist Party.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Learn more at www.TheIndictmentBook.com.
Charles “Sam” Faddis spied for two decades for the Central Intelligence Agency and has long warned about its “decline and fall.” Now, he’s has issued an urgent alarm about the state of America’s counter-intelligence capabilities.
Specifically, Sam Faddis is documenting the extent to which the FBI, the agency charged with countering enemy spying, is not just failing to do its job. It has for years been actively concealing what he calls “the most serious counter-intelligence threat we have ever faced.”
Back in 2018, the FBI knew Chinese spies were running an influence operation successfully targeting Joe Biden. A powerful webinar yesterday confirmed that five years earlier, the then-Vice President helped the PRC gain preferential access to our capital markets, transferring trillions in American investors’ savings to China.
We must hold Joe Biden accountable, as well as those who have enabled his betrayal.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
So, now we have an answer to the question that has dogged the Biden presidency since its inception. Who’s actually in charge? According to a fascinating interview with Barack Obama’s official biographer in Tablet Magazine, he is.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, Obama publicly declared he wanted such an arrangement. His former staffers run the current White House and administration. And his promised “fundamental transformation of America” has accelerated dramatically.
For example: Obama-Biden 3.0 has reportedly secretly agreed to an informal deal that gives another $20 billion to Iran. It’s preparing to cede U.S. sovereignty to the UN and World Health Organization in the name of “global governance.” And it hopes to finish off the take-down of the American military by making its top officer a favored, race-obsessed cultural Marxist general.
Question: Could Barack Obama be “the Big Guy”?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Following Donald Trump’s indictment for alleged involvement in assorted January 6th-related “crimes,” fresh evidence has emerged that that day’s so-called “insurgency” was actually a fraudulent inside-job.
That’s the unmistakable take-away from an interview Tucker Carlson conducted with Steven Sund, the Capitol Police Chief on that fateful day. Yesterday, Raheem Kassam’s National Pulse revealed part of the video that was never aired by Fox News – suppression that may explain Tucker’s termination by its management.
That’s because Chief Sund said the unsayable, revealing that he was: denied access to intelligence about the threat to the Capitol that day; denied requested back-up from the National Guard; and suspicious that it played out according to a plan that was then covered up.
Nancy Pelosi must be subpoenaed about what she knew, and did, to perpetrate a “false-flag” operation on January 6th, and fraud ever since.
This is Frank Gaffney.
A Select House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has announced a significant breakthrough in the CCP’s decades-long “unrestricted warfare” against America. The panel will investigate two companies that help our mortal enemy weaponize U.S. investors’ money against them – and the rest of our country.
Following important testimony recently by our colleague, Roger Robinson, the Committee’s bipartisan leadership declared that: “As a direct result of decisions made by [BlackRock and MSCI] these Americans are now unwittingly funding PRC companies that develop and build weapons for the People’s Liberation Army…exacerbating an already significant national security threat and undermining American values.”
Our Committee on the Present Danger: China has long called for an end to such enabling of history’s greatest “existential threat to freedom” and the firing of those responsible among the CCP-captured elites, especially BlackRock’s Larry Fink. Let it begin.
This is Frank Gaffney.
You wouldn’t know it from the so-called “mainstream media” – which seemingly thinks only Donald Trump’s serial indictments and hot summer temperatures are newsworthy.
But it’s pretty important that the Communist Chinese appear to have covertly established a toxic waste dump and/or laboratory with the inherent capability of producing biological weapons in proximity to a key U.S. military facility – and a lot of Americans – in central California.
An alarming webinar examining this development yesterday established the following:
This facility either was an actual biowarfare lab or could rapidly be used as such. Freshly manufactured biological agents are more lethal. And, if the lab’s expensive, genetically modified mice or other means delivered such agents to a key Navy base nearby, it could be devastating to our Pacific fleet’s combat capabilities.
Question: Are there more of these CCP time-bombs in America?
Learn more at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
It’s said that “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That’s basically been true of the so-called “Woke” cultural Marxist assault on the U.S. military, too.
To be sure, the House of Representatives recently adopted several key amendments to the annual defense authorization act. But their fate in the final bill is uncertain and the radical Obama-Biden “fundamental transformation” of our armed forces is still moving inexorably forward.
But an opportunity looms to “do something” significant about it.
The U.S. Senate left town for six weeks without confirming a champion of the Marxist agenda to be the Nation’s next top military officer. Our new, informal coalition called “Save America’s Military” seeks to do just that by urging your vacationing Senators to block Air Force General “CQ” Brown’s promotion to Joint Chiefs Chairman.
Join us at RejectGeneralBrown.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Last week, local news broke a chilling story about a possible Chinese-connected biological laboratory in a supposedly empty warehouse in the city of Reedley, California. At the very minimum, its contents – including roughly thirty refrigerators and freezers containing some twenty different infectious diseases, unmarked vials containing human body fluids and unidentified chemicals, together with mice genetically modified to “catch and carry” COVID-19 – constituted a significant threat to public safety.
Much is not yet known about this operation. For example: Who exactly was responsible for what was being done in this makeshift laboratory? Was it intended to produce and unleash its toxic substances as weapons against the American people? And most importantly, are there other such facilities elsewhere in this country?
Join us for a webinar on this lethal lab tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. ET. Register at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
After a federal judge refused to “rubber-stamp” a plea deal apparently intended to give Hunter Biden immunity from prosecution in connection with other, unspecified crimes, his father’s media and other apologists insisted, “There’s nothing to see here, folks, move along.”
In a powerful podcast with Senator Ted Cruz, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer begged to differ. He characterized over 250 Suspicious Activity Reports filed with the Treasury Department by major Democrat-run banks as revealing a pattern of behavior by the Biden family that involved “wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering” and “racketeering.”
Worse yet, among the funds involved was a $3 million payment from a Chinese Communist Party-controlled entity, $1.3 million of which wound up in the bank accounts of four Biden family members.
Let the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden’s criminal ties to our mortal enemy begin!
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, a federal judge in Delaware pulled a string that threatens, finally, to unravel the Biden presidency. Judge Maryellen Norieka refused to “rubber-stamp” a plea deal when it became clear that Joe Biden’s notorious son, Hunter, thought his father’s politicized Justice Department had agreed to give him, literally, a get-out-of-jail-free card, but the prosecuting U.S. Attorney may have other plans.
It remains to be seen how this will sort out. But clearly there are grounds for further charges against both Bidens. And the House of Representatives finally seems intent on examining such evidence in a formal presidential impeachment inquiry.
The question recurs: Under these circumstances, should the Senate confirm the deeply problematic choice of a president whose days in office increasingly seem numbered to run our military into the ground for the next two years?
Say “No” at RejectGeneralBrown.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville has gone to extraordinary lengths to challenge the Biden administration’s politicizing of the U.S. military. He has placed what is known in the Senate as a “hold” on promotions of hundreds of officers.
Specifically, “Coach” Tuberville is determined to prevent Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin from unconstitutionally nullifying a statute barring federal funding of abortion. This principled Senator is under intense pressure to release his hold.
If anything, he should broaden its justification to include other fundamental transformations of our armed forces – including Critical Race Theory indoctrination, transgender accommodations and substituting racial quotas for their tradition of meritocracy.
At a minimum, Senator Tuberville should block the nomination of General C.Q. Brown to be the nation’s top officer, but who embraces these Marxist priorities and surely will, if confirmed, inflict them relentlessly on our servicemen and women.
RejectGeneralBrown.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Israel is in turmoil, thanks in part to a former Chief of Staff of its military who has recently been revealed to have plotted the overthrow of Israel’s government since 2020. That’s long before last year’s election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a popular mandate to reform his nation’s judiciary, a version of which was approved by Parliament today.
The seditious machinations of retired General and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak should be a warning for the U.S. Senate. It is poised to confirm a highly political general, C.Q. Brown, as the next Chairman of America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. Allen West has warned that in that role he would be “Al Sharpton with four stars.”
Think a U.S. general who champions Critical Race Theory’s hatred of whites and America’s “systemic racism” running our military won’t be a problem? Think again.
RejectGeneralBrown.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
There’s a new meme showing President Biden congratulating Air Force Chief of Staff General C.Q. Brown on his selection as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The general is shown saying “In just three years, I reduced the U.S. Air Force from ‘marginal’ to ‘very weak.’” Biden asks, “Could you do it for the whole U.S. military?”
Sadly, it’s no joke. A PresentDangerChina.org webinar last Friday with four of America’s most formidable black patriots indicates that the answer is surely “Yes” if those two men can further ratchet up the devastating cultural Marxist takedown of our armed forces now well-underway.
Your U.S. Senators will shortly be asked whether to confirm General Brown as America’s top military officer. The answer must be “No” if we are to be defended in these increasingly fraught times. Tell them so at RejectGeneralBrown.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
For an excellent analysis of the Brown nomination, including findings about the plummeting military strength of the U.S. Air Force on his watch as Chief of Staff, see: https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/20/bidens-nominee-for-the-top-pentagon-job-is-an-unapologetic-dei-activist/.
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has just opened an investigation into American venture capital firms helping this country’s mortal enemy acquire AI and other cutting-edge U.S. technologies decisive to our commercial and military competitiveness. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that, so far, the Committee is not investigating the most egregious example of such treachery.
Curiously absent from the list of companies receiving the panel’s scrutiny is Sequoia Capital. As a recent, stunning webinar at PresentDangerChina.org documented, Sequoia’s “global steward,” Neil Shen, actually works for the Chinese Communist Party.
Reportedly, Shen has helped it buy not just technology but Washington, too, with campaign contributions to Kevin McCarthy and many Democrats that have to date shielded his operation from official inquiries, let alone criminal charges.
It’s time to go there, Select Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Chinese Communist Party has many reasons to celebrate the visit this week of its “friend,” Henry Kissinger. He’s 100 years old. He’s been to the PRC over 100 times. And for five decades, he has been its most unstinting and influential shill.
Kissinger has been paid handsomely for his service to Beijing since he first secretly traveled there in 1971 as the advance man for Richard Nixon’s fateful “opening” to the CCP. Late in his life, the former President correctly feared that “We may have created a Frankenstein.”
Another service Kissinger rendered to the Communists is chronicled in Stephen Young’s important new book, Kissinger’s Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War. It describes his secret sell-out of South Vietnam, assuring our ally’s genocidal defeat by their enemies, and ours, in Hanoi.
With the Communists’ friends like Henry Kissinger, who needs enemies?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives felt compelled to affirm America’s support for the State of Israel. It effectively repudiated the rising Democratic anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism before a senior Israeli official’s speech today to a congressional joint session.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration’s policy towards the Jewish State reflects such vile sentiments, too, as evidenced by among other things, the choice of its head of state, not the leader of its government, to address our nation. Team Biden is working with President Isaac Herzog’s leftist allies who seek to overthrow a man they all detest – who happens to be Israel’s democratically elected leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Worse yet, Obama-Biden 3.0 persists in empowering those seeking the destruction of our most important ally in the Middle East. Consequently, Iran and its proxies are becoming more dangerously aggressive by the day.
Please repudiate these policies, too!
This is Frank Gaffney.
If you are having a hot, wet or otherwise uncomfortable summer, you may be particularly susceptible to one or more scams.
You may be inclined to believe that extreme weather like intense summer heat, flooding and droughts are caused by human carbon dioxide emissions. If so, Team Biden’s so-called “climate czar” John Kerry has a Chinese bridge he wants to sell you.
At the moment, this guy – who has, for five decades, repeatedly betrayed our country – is in Beijing talking up the surpassing importance of getting yet-another climate “deal” with the Chinese Communists.
He wants you to ignore: the evidence that dictator Xi Jinping is preparing for a shooting war against us; the obvious insanity of becoming still more dependent on the PRC for so-called “green energy”; and China’s litany of broken promises.
Kerry’s latest scam could get lots of us killed.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The House of Representatives voted last week to correct some of the most egregious examples of the Marxist-makeover currently afflicting our military men and women. The Senate will shortly consider its version of the National Defense Authorization Act.
Tragically, Democrats in the majority there are expected to endorse racist, merit-crushing “diversity” priorities, “transgender” accommodations that imperil servicewomen’s privacy and safety and illegal government-funding of abortion-related expenses.
Fortunately, the Senate can demonstrate that it, too, wants the restoration of America’s military greatness – not its further ravaging – by rejecting an exemplar of so-called “woke” in uniform: General “C.Q.” Brown, President Biden’s nominee to become the next Joint Chiefs Chairman.
At www.RejectGeneralBrown.org, you can tell your Senators to start returning our armed forces to their historic values, traditions and practices that are essential to deterring conflict and, if that fails, to prevailing in battle.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Out of the blue, President Biden yesterday called up elements of America’ military reserves. What’s up with that?
Ostensibly, it’s to shore up our forces in Europe. But are they meant for a shooting war in Ukraine, without congressional approval or public support?
Alternatively, are the reserves intended to paper over the military’s acute recruiting crisis and its principal cause: Team Biden’s deeply alienating, Marxist makeover of our armed forces?
Or is this a cynical gambit to induce the U.S. Senate to confirm General “C.Q.” Brown as the next Joint Chiefs Chairman and rubber-stamp the promotion of other officers willing to sacrifice readiness and deterrence to so-called “woke” policies that undermine both?
These possible motivations have one thing in common: They are likely to embolden our main enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, to believe it can wage war against us with impunity.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Suddenly, the nation must confront critical decisions: In upcoming votes on the House of Representatives’ annual defense authorization act, Republicans will try to counter the radical left’s “fundamental transformation” of the U.S. military.
Most Democrats, however, are expected to contend that government funding for racist quotas and indoctrination, transgender accommodations in the uniformed services, abortion-related travel and the like are appropriate Pentagon priorities.
Meanwhile, the Senate is being asked to confirm General “C.Q.” Brown as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – even though he apparently is all-in on such readiness-sapping social engineering of our only military.
Votes on these topics offer what may be Congress’ last chance to stop this Marxist make-over of our armed forces. A Chinese Communist Party preparing for a shooting war against us earnestly hopes our representatives will fail to seize it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, the Senate Armed Services Committee politely thanked and gingerly questioned President Biden’s nominee to be the nation’s next top officer. It wasn’t until two Senators broke what appears to be a taboo that the elephant in the room – namely, the radicalism of General Charles “C.Q.” Brown and his Commander-in-Chief’s agenda for “transforming” the U.S. military – became evident.
I was among thirty-one signers of an Open Letter urging that the prospective Joint Chiefs Chairman be questioned about the Marxist “woke” policies of racial preferences, political commissars and transgender accommodations that are crippling recruiting and harming readiness. Thankfully, Senators Mike Rounds and Eric Schmitt did so.
Gen. Brown’s responses showed that America and her armed forces urgently require another hearing, this time fully devoted to exploring the damage being done to our only military on the eve of a possible war with China.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Last Friday, the U.S. Army finished destroying the last of America’s stockpile of chemical weapons. The Biden administration and other arms control enthusiasts boasted about the success of an international ban called the Chemical Weapons Convention, and disarmament agreements more generally.
What it actually demonstrates is the delusion of believing that – especially wholly unverifiable accords like the chemical weapons treaty – when negotiated with unalterably dishonest regimes, result in anything but the unilateral disarmament of the United States and other law-abiding nations.
In fact, every one of our enemies still has some amount of chemical weapons stockpiled. And the Chinese Communist Party has actually been murderously attacking us with one called fentanyl every day for years now, killing over 100,000 Americans last year, alone.
We must hold the Chinese Communists accountable. Ditto those who contend that so-called “arms control” enhances our security.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Four decades ago, I helped staff the Senate Armed Services
Committee in supporting Ronald Reagan’s reversal of Jimmy Carter’s budget cuts that had “hollowed out” the U.S. military. Tomorrow, that panel has an opportunity to begin an even more urgently needed salvation of our armed forces. The occasion will be a hearing on the nomination of Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Will he help end not only Joe Biden’s failure to adequately fund the Pentagon as a shooting war looms with the Chinese Communist Party? The Committee must also establish whether Gen. Brown will strongly support in the future, as he has to date, the Marxist “transformation” that’s making Carter’s hollow military look robust. We require uniformed leaders who oppose policies that weaken, demoralize and invite the defeat of our troops – and country. This is Frank Gaffney.
One of my longtime friends and valued colleagues is an international energy expert named Gal Luft. These days Dr. Luft might be better known as “David” for he now faces alone the Goliath of a U.S. government determined to crush him to protect President Joe Biden.
My money is on David in this fight. Dr. Luft has thus far foiled efforts by the FBI and Department of Justice to conceal information he gave them in 2019.
Moreover, Gal Luft released yesterday a video that has gone viral. It describes his first-hand knowledge of payments made by CEFC, a Chinese energy company he advised, to former Vice President Biden and his family. He also recounts the extensive official cover-up of such evidence.
The Bidens have picked a fight with the wrong man. Let us pray for this David’s safety and his ultimate triumph.
This is Frank Gaffney.
We recently published a response to the “unrestricted warfare” Chinese Communists have long waged with help from “captured elites” in this country. It’s called, The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes against America, China and the World.
Yesterday, that prosecution got underway in earnest.
The latest webinar sponsored by our Committee on the Present Danger: China featured two top experts and a former prosecutor who brought criminal “charges” in the court of public opinion against the world’s most successful venture capitalist, Neil Shen, and his firm, Sequoia Capital.
The evidence presented reveals they have betrayed our country by enabling the CCP to secure decisive leads in dozens of technologies that can dominate us commercially and defeat us militarily.
Neil Shen and Company have thus far successfully deployed bipartisan contributions to get away with such treachery. That must end now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
There’s a meme making the rounds, showing a tricolored map of France in blue, white and red, only it has a jagged black line running through the middle from north to south.
Accompanying this image is the following message, referring to Sharia-supremacist rioting across the country in recent days: “This attack only underscores the need for France to immediately engage in negotiations with French Muslims that will result in the creation of two states for two peoples, living side by side in peace and security, with Paris as a shared capital.”
The question occurs: How long will it be before enemies of France demand such an outcome? Improbable as it may seem, the answer likely is “Not long.” That’s especially so since President Emanuel Macron and his predecessors have been the most insistent in demanding that Israel follow precisely this suicidal advice.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered his army to torch Paris rather than let the city be liberated intact. As it became clear he was being disobeyed, the Nazi dictator frantically demanded to know, “Is Paris burning?”
Thankfully, it wasn’t then. But the capital of France is burning today, at the hands of adherents to another totalitarian ideology – best described as Sharia-supremacism – who now occupy hundreds of “no-go” zones across the country.
And it is not just Paris that is in flames. In recent days, jihadists have taken to the streets in city after city, ostensibly to protest the killing of a Muslim youth by police during a traffic stop.
The uprisings may prove, however, to be the start of a civil war that unassimilable Islamist immigrants’ have long aspired to launch in France and far beyond. Think “Summer of Love” on steroids.
This is Frank Gaffney.
After initially dissembling about the Chinese Communist Party’s weaponization of Cuba, the Biden administration now acknowledges we will soon face not only an expanded PRC signals intelligence operation off our coast. The CCP is also establishing a so-called “military training facility” there.
Our Committee on the Present Danger: China identified in a very troubling webinar this week the following are possible uses of such a forward-deployed base: cyber and biological warfare and fielding assorted missile systems, perhaps concealed in shipping containers. Team Biden has done nothing meaningful even to discourage such threatening behavior.
The Committee has unveiled twenty measures designed to compel the Chinese Communists to abandon this dangerous provocation or, at least, mitigate the risks associated with it. Visit PresentDangerChina.org and help us induce President Biden to stand up to, and not further appease, our mortal enemy: the CCP.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Harvard-trained attorney and PhD Francis Boyle is a preeminent academic specializing in international law. For over five decades, he has closely studied treaties and organizations, many of them the product of ambitious utopians seeking to ban war, redistribute power and wealth and otherwise reorder the world.
In the course of an extraordinarily yesterday important webinar, Dr. Boyle warned that, for the first time in history, such globalists are poised to create a “worldwide totalitarian police state.” They would do so via what amount to two World Health Organization treaties now being finalized with the aggressive support of the Chinese Communist Party, Davos oligarchs and the Biden administration.
These accords would cede American states’ constitutional rights to determine health care policy and crush our national sovereignty. Francis Boyle and our Sovereignty Coalition agree that we must withdraw from the World Health Organization now
This is Frank Gaffney.
Three senior Pakistani officers recently lost their jobs on the grounds that they had failed to keep the government’s opponents from launching attacks on the military’s assets. This time, the perpetrators were supporters of an Islamist former prime minister.
The next time, they may well be jihadists doing business as the Taliban, ISIS or al Qaeda operating from neighboring Afghanistan who are determined to overthrow Pakistan’s government and seize its nuclear weapons.
As former CIA undercover operative Charles “Sam” Faddis has pointed out, this would be just one of the dangerous upshots of Joe Biden’s ruinous surrender of Afghanistan. Another is likely to be that these, and other, terrorist groups – now up-gunned with $83 billion worth of our weapons – are gaining unprecedented power to pursue their ultimate objective, which is to destroy us.
What’s being done to prevent that?
This is Frank Gaffney.
On Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken was directly asked “Are we going to prevent China from having a military base on the island of Cuba?” Blinken’s word-salad response amounted to an assurance that: “We've made clear that this is a real concern.” In short, the Biden administration intends to take no action to prevent the Chinese Communist Party from establishing – not just an expanded intelligence and advanced cyberwarfare facility in Cuba – but a so-called “military training base” inherently capable of kinetic power-projection, as well. Our Committee on the Present Danger: China believes that is a totally unacceptable response and will be unveiling in a webinar today at 1 p.m. Eastern Time twenty specific actions the United States must take immediately to counter this new Chinese dagger pointed at the heart of America. Register at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Fresh from his pathetic impersonation of a representative of America’s vital national interests in Beijing last week, Secretary of State Tony Blinken appeared on Sunday morning TV shows to comment on tumultuous events in Russia over the last few days. His message was: The Biden administration is “focused on Ukraine.”
In fact, Blinken slavishly adhered to what was clearly his main authorized talking point by repeating it ludicrously. No wonder his international interlocutors – and most especially the Chinese Communist ones – treat him with such contempt.
If Team Biden has nothing to say about the import of the short-lived, but portentous, Russian mutiny besides “Look over there, folks,” at least our countrymen and women ought to be encouraged to “focus” on the fresh evidence that President Biden has personally taken money from Chinese intelligence officers – and repeatedly lied about it.
Joe must go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In 1962, the Soviet Union sought to turn Cuba into “a dagger” pointed at America’s heart. Today, a far more dangerous Communist enemy is attempting to do the same.
Sixty-one years ago, a Democratic president responded to the Cuban Missile Crisis by blockading the island and threatening to attack the Soviet ballistic missiles being installed there if they weren’t promptly removed. Today, Joe Biden is turning a blind eye to the rapidly evolving Chinese military build-up in Cuba and misleading the American people about the threat thus posed.
We need an urgent course-correction on the Chinese Communist Party. That requires, among much else, using the sorts of “unrestricted warfare” techniques the CCP has long wielded against us to roll back its various threats in our hemisphere while adopting here the sort of societal war-footing now in place in China.
This is Frank Gaffney.
For more on the CCP’s unrestricted warfare, please check out my new book, The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes against America, China and the World.
Finally, Rep. Adam Schiff has been held accountable for his serial lies to the American people, the costly investigations and impeachments they encouraged and the abuse of the power entrusted to him as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee that enabled both.
As the late William Safire famously said of Hillary Clinton, Schiff is a “congenital liar.” His earlier removal from the Intel Committee and now his censure by the full House of Representatives fall far short of the expulsion such an utter lack of integrity actually warrants.
But it is the least Congress can do and encourages hope for more of the same with respect to others in government – like Messrs. Biden, Garland and Majorkas – who have similarly betrayed the public trust by abusing their offices and the oath to support and defend the Constitution they took upon entering them.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Hunter Biden once acknowledged that he probably wouldn’t have gotten a board seat with a corrupt Ukrainian oil company if his last name were different. He surely wouldn’t have gotten the sweetheart plea deal announced yesterday if his father weren’t the U.S. President.
The immediate question is whether that deal rules out Hunter’s prosecution on other charges. His lawyer says it does. The U.S. Attorney who has been investigating him for several years however, says that he is still doing so.
The far more important question is whether the American people will tolerate this latest example of unequal justice under law. If allowed to stand, it would surely reinforce the perception that there is one criminal standard for Democrats and another for Republicans.
That perception must not be allowed to take further root, starting with a vigorous prosecution of Hunter Biden.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The take-away from Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s visit to Beijing this week, including its seven-hour struggle session with China’s top diplomat, is pretty clear: Pax Americana has now been replaced with Post-America.
That’s the cumulative effect of Obama-Biden’s three terms pursuing the “fundamental transformation of the United States of America.” The globalists are now in charge, particularly those “with Chinese characteristics.”
They are steadily eroding U.S. sovereignty by the relentless pursuit of so-called “global stability,” “global governance,” “global health,” “global digital IDs,” and “global taxes.” Throw in the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the dismantling of our constitutional republic at home and you have a post-American world.
No one has given Joe Biden a mandate to effect such an ominous transformation. The question is: Will it become irreversible before he is finally removed from office?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s Juneteenth trip to Beijing has been lowballed as basically a social call to re-open a bilateral “dialogue” with little of substance expected to come of it.
Translation: Something is up.
It could be that Blinken’s prostrating kow-tow to Xi Jinping will simply permit Joe Biden to do the same with the Chinese dictator in the next few months. This will be trumpeted as a victory for diplomacy and a boost to Biden’s reelection bid.
Here's a thought-experiment: What if this meeting instead tees up an enormous strategic defeat in response to the Chinese dictating to the hapless Blinken that they’re going to seize Taiwan before November 2024 – but will guarantee U.S. access to the island’s advanced chip-manufacturing if we don’t interfere?
Of course, that guarantee would be worthless. But it may be an “offer” Joe won’t refuse.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The tradition of representatives of vassal states “kow-towing” by prostrating themselves before China emperors long predated its practice by the likes of Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton. But it seems certain to be on display during Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s current mission to Beijing, delayed by what Joe Biden calls “the silly balloon.”
What would be truly silly – if it weren’t so dangerous – is the proposition that visits by a man of Blinken’s exceedingly limited abilities, a track record of appeasement in office and a personal history as a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s “captured” American elite would do other than reinforce Emperor Xi Jinping’s conviction that he can get away with murder, literally.
Far from making violent conflict with the CCP less likely, Team Biden’s insistence on such kow-towing “engagement” undermines our chances of deterring it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Representative Adam Schiff personifies much of what is currently wrong with American politics. The former, highly partisan chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has serially abused power to attack his opponents and lies pretty much whenever he opens his mouth.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on a motion to censure Mr. Schiff for such misconduct. Thanks, however, to twenty Republicans who helped Democrats spare him that ignominy, Schiff likely will believe he can continue baselessly defaming President Trump and others with impunity.
The idea that individuals like Adam Schiff can behave in this fashion, escape any real penalty and proceed to run for higher office – in his case, the U.S. Senate, is deeply repugnant to people of integrity. Fortunately, freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who initiated the original censure motion, will introduce another one next week designed to command broader support.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Biden administration has been implicated in funding and otherwise encouraging an actual insurgency in Israel. That means it’s been involved with opposition leaders – including former senior officials – directly working to overthrow Benjamin Netanyahu’s elected governing coalition.
There would never be a good time for Team Biden to be encouraging the destabilization of an allied, democratic government. But this is a particularly dangerous moment to be distracting and undermining the Israelis.
After all, they can no longer postpone the day of reckoning now confronting the Jewish State as a direct result of the cumulative effects of the appeasement, enriching and emboldening of the Iranian regime over the Obama-Biden presidency’s three terms that have incalculably helped the mullahs acquire nuclear weapons.
Heaven help Israel – and us – if Bibi is unable to prevent the ayatollahs from using the Bomb they now surely have.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Times of London reports the U.S. State Department has concluded at last that a Chinese Communist biological warfare laboratory in Wuhan secretly genetically modified a bat coronavirus to make it more transmissible and lethal to humans.
This is not exactly news. In fact, it has been obvious for years. But the evidence contradicted the officially approved narrative, derived from the Chinese Communist Party’s lies, then legitimated and amplified by the World Health Organization it controls.
Consequently, we must address the reality that, once the virus was out of the Wuhan lab, it was deliberately spread to this country and globally by the CCP in what amounts to a deliberate biological warfare attack.
The Chinese Communist Party is a Transnational Criminal Organization that must be prosecuted and punished for this and other war crimes against innocent people. Ditto its accomplice: the WHO.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Freedom is an endangered species, thanks to the Chinese Communist Party’s so-called “social credit system.” It utilizes a comprehensive array of advanced surveillance, computing and artificial intelligence technologies to monitor and control its own population.
Worse yet, the Chinese Communists and their globalist allies at the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, Big Pharma and, of course, the Biden administration – seek to impose this “Digital Gulag,” here and throughout the world.
The building-blocks of that liberty-crushing project include: Team Biden’s bid to institutionalize the “China Model” of pandemic lockdowns, emergency orders and mandates; American businesses conforming to “environment, social and governance” scoring; and the proliferation of global and national health IDs.
The time to resist is now, while we still can.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Please read The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes Against America, China and the World.
The thoroughly discredited Southern Poverty Law Center just added two new organizations to its list of so-called “hate groups”: “Moms for America” and “Parents Defending Education.”
I can attest from hard personal experience that such defamations by the SPLC say vastly more about their perpetrator than its targets.
At a minimum, these are acts of political warfare aimed at neutralizing patriotic Americans simply because they are effective opponents of the truly hateful agenda of the radical Left. Henceforth, every Marxist masquerading as a journalist can repeat the unfounded smear to suppress those they cannot otherwise defeat.
Worst case, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate-mongering actually does what it falsely accuses others of doing – namely, encouraging violence.
From now on, anyone favorably citing the SPLC should be deemed complicit in and held accountable for its predictable, if not actually intended, consequences.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Please read The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes Against America, China and the World.
The Chinese Communist Party’s “capture” of American “elites” has decisively helped Beijing wage “unrestricted warfare” against our country for decades.
Especially damaging have been its “old friends” in America’s financial sector who have underwritten with our money the economic and military build-up of the People’s Republic of China.
Sequoia Capital’s Neil Shen is one such enabler of Chinese hegemonic ambitions. He reportedly is not merely among Beijing’s friends. He actually has worked for the regime there, helping it gain potentially decisive advantages by acquiring and developing militarily relevant U.S. technologies.
Unfortunately, a promising House Intelligence Committee investigation into such assistance was shut down after Sequoia made large contributions to Kevin McCarthy’s Victory Fund.
Sounds like another good reason to fire the Speaker.
This is Frank Gaffney. Please read The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes Against America, China and the World.
We got another rude awakening this week about the threat posed to us by the Chinese Communist Party. An Australian think tank revealed the CCP has a “stunning lead” over the United States in the development of 37 out of 44 advanced technologies, many of which have direct military applications.
Kiss goodbye to the “qualitative edge” our armed forces have long relied upon to offset larger numbers of military personnel and weaponry fielded by foreign adversaries. Farewell to “peace through strength.”
Among those responsible for this ominous change in the “correlation of forces” is America’s top venture capitalist, Sequoia’s Neil Shen, who we’ve just learned works directly for the Chinese government in helping it finance and acquire our best technology.
That must end.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Please read The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes Against America, China and the World.
Yesterday, globalists at the European Union and World Health Organization unveiled a “landmark digital health partnership” to “facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats.”
We’re promised, moreover, that “This first building block of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network…will… deliver better health for all.” Actually, what you’ll get with this “health partnership” is international aggregation of your personal data, surveillance, control and abuse.
Even before that dark day arrives, as Dr. Robert Malone has pointed out, bureaucrats in the “Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology” have already launched a “National Digital Health ID” here, without a debate or voters’ informed consent.
Think of it as your passport to the Digital Gulag.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Please read The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes Against America, China and the World.
In recent days, Chinese military personnel have deliberately endangered American counterparts in international air and sea space. The near-collisions were not simply “unprofessional” or the result of a “failure to communicate.”
They are deliberate provocations that eventually will get someone – and maybe a lot of us – killed.
The incidents reflect the Chinese Communist Party’s increasing ability and willingness to take risks in order to assert effective control over areas it claims as sovereign waters and territory.
They are also evidence of Beijing’s ever-less-concealed contempt for a U.S. military being “fundamentally transformed” by: the purging of skilled warriors; the promotion of leaders embracing Marxist nostrums designed to divide, weaken and demoralize those still serving; and a Commander-in-Chief rightly characterized as a “controlled asset” of the Chinese Communist Party.
That’s a prescription for our defeat in a shooting war Team Biden is inviting.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden wants us to believe that his subordinates’ renewed “dialogues” with Chinese officials are improving bilateral relations damaged by what he has derisively characterized as the “silly balloon.”
The President may be deluded, or simply deceiving us. But the reality is very different: The Chinese Communist Party is actually preparing assiduously to complement the “unrestricted warfare” it has waged against us for decades – as documented in our bestselling new book, The Indictment – with a shooting war against America and her allies.
We must never forget that Japanese negotiators were meeting in Washington as their country launched its attack on Pearl Harbor.
Our people are gravely disserved – and put at heightened risk – by the false and misleading assurance that Team Biden’s feckless, if not actually Chinese-“captured,” officials will talk the CCP out of war, when only “peace through strength” will deter it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Kevin McCarthy won a prohibitively costly “victory” yesterday by pushing through the House of Representatives a debt ceiling hike supported by more Democrats than Republicans.
After the vote, the Speaker boasted that it was easier to do than he had anticipated. Here’s why: Surrendering generally takes less effort than fighting and prevailing over your partisan foes.
In this case, as a White House official made clear, the so-called bipartisan compromise “locked in,” rather than defunded, Democratic priorities – like hiring 87,000 armed IRS agents and radical leftist energy and climate change priorities. And there’s no limit to how much additional national debt can be incurred over the next two years.
Mr. McCarthy’s Pyrrhic victory will have another cost: It profoundly alienates Republicans who voted for a real opposition to the Biden Marxists, not a controlled one that merely enables their take-down of America.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The sad truth is that too many congressional Republicans amount to little more than a “controlled opposition.” Full of rhetorical posturing but, when it matters, doing basically whatever the left demands.
In January, Kevin McCarthy was compelled to promise, if elected Speaker, to oppose – rather than submit to – the Marxists running the executive branch and the Senate. His critics wisely required that the rules enable any one of them to depose him if he reneged.
Barely six months later, it’s clear that Speaker McCarthy has reverted to form. His so-called “deal” with Joe Biden on the debt ceiling is precisely what the governing leftists expect from opposition figures they control. It should be spurned by the Republican caucus and the Speaker’s chair “vacated” to be filled by someone truly committed to “opposing,” not enabling, Obama-Biden 3.0’s “fundamental transformation” of America.
This is Frank Gaffney.
There would never be a good time to say farewell to a magnificent patriot and courageous editorialist, essayist and investigative reporter like my friend, Claudia Rosett. But her loss at this particular moment in the arc of her profession is nothing short of devastating.
For decades, Claudia epitomized the working journalist who served as our founders intended – namely, as an independent, honest check on the three branches of government, fearlessly speaking truth to power. She did the same with tyrants abroad.
Claudia Rosett was an exemplar of authentic reporting. More to the point, she practiced it the way we desperately require at present. Those who believe that it amounts to nothing more than reprinting official press releases and collaborating in the suppression of dissenting views will have a special place in Hell, as Claudia surely has one in Heaven.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This day is dedicated to the memory of those who, in Abraham Lincoln’s immortal words, gave our country “the last full measure of devotion” by forfeiting their lives so that she might survive.
It is, therefore, a fitting moment to consider whether our fallen heroes would feel betrayed that we think so little of their sacrifice that we’re poised blithely to surrender the sovereignty and freedoms they died to bequeath to us to advance a totalitarian agenda called “global governance.”
That would be the practical effect of the accords being finalized this week in Geneva by the World Health Organization with the stealthy connivance of the Biden administration. Unless we withdraw from the WHO, an unaccountable Communist international bureaucrat will be empowered to dictate our public health policies governing all humans, animals and plants.
Congress must expose – and exit – the WHO now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Over the course of the three Obama-Biden terms, the most radical leftist administration in our history has tirelessly pursued the “fundamental transformation of the United States” that then-Senator Barack Obama promised in an unguarded moment on the eve of his first presidential election.
This goal is far advanced in our armed forces, thanks to purges of skilled warriors: deemed to be insufficiently ideologically aligned with the Marxists’ so-called “woke” agenda; unwilling to be compelled to take the COVID “jab”; and/or opposed to the administration’s appeasement of the Chinese Communist Party that is imperiling America.
Now, Air Force General Charles “C.Q.” Brown has been nominated to succeed – and likely surpass – the worst Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ever. This appointment must precipitate a Senate fight to save and restore our military before we lose the war Obama-Biden 3.0 is inviting.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton characteristically pulled no punches in recently depicting the subject of special prosecutor John Durham’s investigation this way: “President Trump is a crime victim who was targeted by a seditious conspiracy by Obama, Biden, Clinton and their Deep State allies.”
Mr. Durham’s final report, released last week, basically substantiated that conclusion. And yet, despite the gravity of such criminal activity at the highest levels of the U.S. government, the prosecutor failed to indict any of the senior officials demonstrably implicated in its commission.
Few things are more corrosive in a democracy like ours than eroding the American people’s confidence that our judicial system delivers “equal justice under law.” Consequently, House Republicans must marshal all the available evidence to prosecute and hold accountable the seditious anti-Trump conspirators at a minimum in the court of public opinion.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Representative Michele Bachmann may no longer be in the U.S. Congress, but today she is serving our country far more capably than all but a handful of those who are.
For the past week, Ms. Bachmann has been forward-deployed in Geneva, Switzerland where she is monitoring the most ambitious element of the Biden administration’s multifaceted “wrecking operation” against our country. What she has witnessed firsthand should strike fear – and fury – in the hearts of every American patriot.
Geneva hosts the World Health Organization and other international institutions that, along with their principal master, the Chinese Communist Party, seek “global governance.” They’re pursuing the end of national sovereignty and, as a practical matter, that of our constitutional Republic and freedoms.
Michele Bachmann and the rest of our Sovereignty Coalition are determined to prevent that betrayal of America. Stand with us now at www.SovereigntyCoalition.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Last week, the Committee on the Present Danger: China hosted an important webinar entitled, “Is Joe Biden a ‘Controlled Asset’ of the Chinese Communist Party?” Events of this week reinforce our answer in the affirmative.
True, Beijing professed unhappiness with the G-7’s discussions in Hiroshima, Japan about the rising threat that the CCP’s continuing “unrestricted warfare” poses to freedom everywhere – and the prospect that it may soon include a shooting war, as well.
Yet, far more significant is what Xi Jinping’s “old friend,” Joe Biden, did by standing up eighteen leaders of nations in the Indo-Pacific region who were supposed to meet with him in Papua-New Guinea. This meeting could have materially set back Chinese efforts to penetrate and subvert those still resisting its colonization and domination of the region, and beyond.
Instead, the war drums are sounding more loudly.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On May 17th, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party threat held what may prove to be the most important congressional hearing in a generation. It featured testimony from three men who have made history.
Each addressed the unrestricted warfare the CCP has long waged against us. Trump advisor Robert Lighthizer described Beijing’s devastating economic and unfair trade practices. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned of Chinese efforts to steal and dominate militarily relevant technologies.
But it was my friend Roger Robinson – who helped Ronald Reagan take down the Soviet Union, the last totalitarian regime that sought our destruction – who really broke the code. He revealed the invaluable help the Chinese Communists have gotten from Wall Street and how, if we stop underwriting our mortal enemy, we just may succeed in defeating the CCP, too, without fighting.
Let’s roll!
This is Frank Gaffney.
A comedian in Beijing has inadvertently exposed an exploitable vulnerability of the Chinese Communist Party and its dictator-for-life, Xi Jinping: They have very thin skins and are terrified that, if ridiculed, their legitimacy and hold on absolute power will be endangered.
They’re right. The popular response to a joke mocking one of Xi’s stupid sayings extolling the People’s Liberation Army shows the Chinese people are sick of the CCP’s repression. The regime has gone full Maoist: The comic has been forced to issue groveling apologies to the military and his company fined over $2 million.
We must do everything possible to delegitimize the CCP which actually is, as we argue in our new book, The Indictment, a Transnational Criminal Organization. Let us align with and help liberate the Chinese people who have, like ours, been victimized by its crimes.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The more we learn about Joe Biden’s record of selling out our country to the Chinese Communist Party the more urgent becomes the obvious question: Is the President of the United States a “controlled asset” of history’s greatest “existential threat to freedom”: the CCP?
That’s the professional judgment of Charles “Sam” Faddis, a man who – as a career CIA undercover operative – recruited and ran spies and other assets for our country. The latest Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar powerfully affirmed that assessment.
It’s hard to overstate the resulting danger for America given that the Chinese Communist emperor, Xi Jinping, is preparing to go beyond the CCP’s long-running, pre-kinetic “unrestricted warfare,” and launch the shooting kind against Taiwan and us. That prospect can only be more certain if a man who works for them is supposed to defend us.
Joe must go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
A growing number of Americans, including a spirited group of patriots collaborating under the brand of our Sovereignty Coalition, have exposed a stealthy effort to impose so-called “global governance” here and elsewhere.
A Capitol Hill press conference this afternoon led by Congressman Ralph Norman will oppose the bid by a deeply problematic, and wholly unaccountable, World Health Organization to dictate to us public health policy.
Yet, a shocking webinar on Monday revealed that this gambit has already begun to metastasize as “One Health.” It would, among other things, confer on the WHO authority to rule over anything bearing on not only human health, but that of animals and plants. In other words, pretty much everything.
One Health equals zero America. Join us at SovereigntyCoalition.org in demanding that the United States stop funding, and exit from, the World Health Organization.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The war in Ukraine obscures a serious and festering sore for the NATO alliance – namely, its inability to remove a member who long ago ceased to be a faithful one.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has undermined his nation’s allies while currying favor with their enemies, including fellow Sharia-supremacists like Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, and Communist China and Putin’s Russia.
Erdogan has also sent waves of illegal migrants into Europe, encouraging their non-assimilation and enabling preparations for the final Islamic conquest of the continent.
Fortunately, Erdogan now faces a run-off in presidential elections. An important conference sponsored by the Middle East Forum in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday will discuss, among other things, how a coalition it leads is making the case for an end, at last, to his repression at home, and his subversion of the West abroad.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Daily now, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas offers fresh grounds for his impeachment. He not only laughably insists that our southern border is “secure.” He also asserts the Biden administration will be able to “manage” the countless additional illegal aliens now headed our way.
Despite Mayorkas’ blithe assurances that his team has long been planning for the elimination of Title 42’s pandemic-related restrictions, their actual plan is to invite and facilitate the coming human tsunami.
Among those to be admitted and then distributed nationwide are untold numbers of apparently organized groups of young, unaccompanied and uniformly equipped men from China. Ditto still others hailing from places like Communist Venezuela and the world’s jihadist regimes.
That’s a formula for mass destruction in America. Impeach Mayorkas and reconstitute and secure the border now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
One of the most serious “charges” in our new bestselling book, The Indictment, is the “war crime” against America by the Chinese Communist Party and its friends’ of taking-down our armed forces. Joe Biden’s selection of the nation’s new top officer could further, and very dangerously, compound that betrayal of our country.
The retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Mark Milley, has, among other things, presided over the purge of many of our best warriors, the Marxist indoctrination of those who remain and the greatest military debacle in our history – namely, the surrender of Afghanistan and $83 billion in advanced arms to the enemy.
Milley’s replacement will reportedly be even more disposed to demoralize and dismantle America’s armed services, setting the stage for and inviting our defeat by the CCP.
The U.S. Senate must reject any such nomination.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The invasion of America by illegal aliens will enter a new, and possibly decisive, phase today as the Biden administration removes a public health policy that kept some out. Think of it as “D-Day” here.
Of course, Team Biden insists there will be no problem. The technical term for that is “lying.”
The truth is – as a chilling Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar on Tuesday made clear – Biden’s effective elimination of the U.S. southern border and his failure to secure our northern one is going to get at least some of us killed. That’s because young men who may well be Chinese military personnel are among those exploiting this situation in large numbers.
We argue in our new best-seller, The Indictment, that American elites “captured” by the Chinese Communist Party must be removed from leadership positions. Clearly, Joe must go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Natalie Winters is hands-down the best investigative journalist of her generation. True, very few of her contemporaries have anything approaching the experience, let alone the reportorial accomplishments, of the woman who is now, at twenty-something, the Executive Editor of Steve Bannon’s War Room.
Mostly Natalie stands out, however, for her relentless exposure of what the Chinese Communists call the “elite capture” of many of this country’s leaders in finance, business, the academy, Hollywood, the media and government.
For example, on Tuesday she broke the story that the House Oversight Committee will reveal today its documentation of a million dollars in bribes paid by a Romanian oligarch while Joe Biden was Vice President.
Obviously, Joe must go. The question that now deserves investigation, by both Natalie Winters and congressional committees, is who else in the Obama-Biden administration’s first two terms knew of his corruption?
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Chinese Communist Party is the United States’ mortal enemy. It explicitly seeks America’s destruction and has long pursued that goal using devastating, albeit pre-violent, “unrestricted warfare” techniques, with help from their “friends” among American “captured elites.”
Now, the Chinese Communists appear poised to start a shooting war against Taiwan and almost certainly U.S. assets, personnel and territory, as well.
Too many Americans are still unaware of these realities and what we must do to secure our country against them. I am pleased to announce the publication today of my new book aimed at correcting that perilous situation.
It’s entitled The Indictment and a playbook for “prosecuting” the CCP & Friends for their crimes against America, China and the world.
Get The Indictment wherever books are sold to learn how we can punish that Transnational Criminal Organization and secure freedom.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared last week: “The border is not open. It has not been open, and it will not be open subsequent to May 11th.” His statement calls to mind the famous Marx Brothers line, “Who gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
Better go with what you are seeing. Joe Biden has let in some five million illegal aliens and countless more expect to join them when pandemic-related restrictions end on the 11th.
Look closer and you’ll see among them large numbers of unaccompanied, military age men. War correspondent Michael Yon reports that many are Chinese nationals equipped with identical “kits.”
That sure appears to be a covert invasion by elements of the People’s Liberation Army on the eve of a shooting war with Communist China. Team Biden’s facilitating – and lying about – it amounts to treason.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On what may be the eve of a devastating shooting-war with the Chinese Communist Party, the Biden Pentagon is simultaneously demoralizing those in uniform and emboldening the enemy.
A new U.S. Navy marketing campaign, supposedly aimed at young Americans, features a cross-dressed male sailor beckoning them to enlist. The message is: a once-squared-away military service is now a sea-going Sodom and Gomorrah.
Such a “fundamental transformation” has been a goal throughout Obama-Biden’s three terms since it not only targets a bedrock of our national security, but one that’s long exemplified the best of our national traditions and values.
If such radical social engineering of our armed forces results in our defeat, it will be proof positive that the wrecking operation inflicted by those “doing business as Joe Biden” is not just harming our country. It’s benefiting the President’s masters in Beijing.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The federal bureaucracy’s heretofore impenetrable cone of silence that has protected Joe Biden from prosecution for serial betrayals of his office and our country has now been breached by a whistleblower from the Internal Revenue Service. Thank God!
In a joint letter issued yesterday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comey and a veteran of myriad dogged investigations, Sen. Chuck Grassley, declare this IRS veteran’s evidence to be “highly credible” concerning then-Vice President Joe Biden’s receipt of money from a foreign national in “exchange for policy decisions.”
The FBI has known about this for some time, and its notoriously willfully blind Director, Christopher Wray, has now been subpoenaed by Congressman Comer. While we must expect more skullduggery as the “administrative state” and its partisan allies try to slow-roll or otherwise cover for Biden, one thing now seems increasingly clear: Joe will go.
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On Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz laced into Judiciary Committee Democrats’ “kangaroo court” treatment of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for their second “high-tech lynching” in thirty years of a man they loathe simply because he is a “conservative African American.”
Senator Cruz warned that Democrats appeared to be following a strategy promoted by their radical leftist allies who have used racist imagery and tropes to “destroy Clarence Thomas’s reputation.” The current pretext are claims of ethical misconduct that don’t withstand scrutiny.
The Texas Senator also served notice that the other target of this partisan assault is the Supreme Court, itself. The transparent object is to transform it permanently into the sort of weaponized judicial creature the Left has used in Brazil and Israel to gain and wield power, negating that vested in democratically elected governments.
Such subversive political warfare must be thwarted. Now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Democratic Senators will profess to be concerned about ethics in government during today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. A transparent purpose, however, is to deflect attention from their own party’s epic fail in enforcing ethical standards, to say nothing of the law, with respect to President Joe Biden.
There is now abundant evidence that the Commander-in-Chief has become very wealthy through a series of influence-peddling transactions with, among others, intelligence agents of America’s foremost enemy: the Chinese Communist Party. Of course, Biden has not formally disclosed any of these deals. Yet not a single Democratic Senator has called for his investigation, let alone condemned him.
Spare us the crocodile tears about purportedly insufficient filings by Supreme Court justices until a man who is supposed to set the standard for ethical and lawful conduct in our government is held to account.
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To cook a frog in a pot of water, increase the temperature slowly. That appears to be Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping’ recipe as he inexorably ratchets up the temperature in his new Cold War in the Pacific.
Xi is pursuing a 21st Century version of General MacArthur’s successful “island-hopping” campaign in World War II. Only where the U.S military was then liberating places like Guadalcanal in the Solomons, the Chinese are seeking to enslave them.
The frog-boiling intensified when the Solomons’ prime minister unilaterally agreed to the stationing of Chinese “police” in his country. Other examples include the CCP’s: aggressive confrontations with the Philippine coast guard; threats against Japanese territory; and intensifying intrusions into Taiwan’s air and sea space.
As President Biden heads to the region next month, we must push back – while there’s still an opportunity to deter far worse.
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Kudos to Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his House Republican caucus for insisting this week that, in exchange for authorizing the federal government to borrow still more money, steep cuts must be made in its expenditures.
Unsurprisingly, those who binge-spend irresponsibly and “pay” for it by simply printing more money want no part of such budgetary discipline. President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer insist that the House debt ceiling bill is unacceptable.
That’s a formula for national disaster. Their approach amounts to charging trillions more on America’s overextended credit card.
The Chinese Communist Party and its friends are already making real progress on toppling the dollar as the world’s reserve currency – which would have extremely dire consequences for all of us. Every effort must be made to prevent that calamity, including by standing with the House Republicans on the debt ceiling.
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The long-suffering people of Sudan have lately been subjected to yet another round of barbaric oppression at the hands of Sharia-supremacist generals. This has gone on for decades with the exception of a recent, brief interlude when such officers promised a transition to civilian rule.
The latest violence has been precipitated by a conflict between what amount to rival uniformed Mafia dons over who will next misrule the country.
Mostly unnoted, however, is the enabler of the Sudanese jihadists – namely, the Chinese Communist Party. It has long worked with them to exploit Sudan’s vast oil deposits and otherwise supported those in Khartoum who – despite their profession of solidarity with fellow Muslims – are willing to work with Chinese deeply contemptuous of the people of Sudan and genocidally persecuting Uighur co-religionists in China.
We must hold accountable the CCP and its friends.
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Since Communism’s inception, one-world government has been a weapon in its adherents’ playbook for taking down America and the Free World and establishing their absolute control. From Karl Marx’s day to this, enemies of freedom have never been closer to achieving that audacious – and terrifying – goal.
A secret to getting so near to the outcome that has to-date eluded successive tyrants is that the Chinese Communist Party and its vassals, proxies and puppets are not using force, yet. Rather, they are pursuing so-called “global governance” via purportedly “international organizations” that, in fact, work for Beijing.
For example, we see the CCP-controlled World Health Organization and the United Nations seeking the power to dictate to us respectively “public health emergencies” and “complex global shocks” – and what we must do in response.
If enslavement doesn’t suit you, join us at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
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America’s bid to return human beings to the moon was just set back by the catastrophic loss during launch of the spacecraft Elon Musk’s SpaceX built for the purpose. Worse yet, it appears increasingly possible that, by the time we’re ready to go back there, the Chinese Communist Party will have declared the place off limits – and be able to enforce it.
The Chinese Communists recently announced they are planning moon missions that will attempt to turn lunar dirt into bricks with which structures can be efficiently and inexpensively built. Inevitably, those will include fortifications.
Chinese panoramic mapping of Mars and growing capabilities to neutralize others’ satellites offer further indications of the scope of what is, at best, Beijing’s inherently “dual-use” space program. At worst, it is a fully militarized one with some civilian applications.
Houston, we have a problem.
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The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that, in the interest of “simplifying” the “vaccination schedule for most individuals,” the original monovalent Pfizer and Moderna COVID jabs are “no longer authorized for use in the United States.”
Even though the FDA doesn’t acknowledge that these so-called “vaccines” don’t work and have actually proven to be harmful, it’s hard to read this statement as anything but a tacit admission that the emergency – and mandatory – use of those experimental “gene therapies” was a mistake. Undeterred, the agency is now calling for bivalent mRNA vaccinations, instead.
In an important webinar this afternoon about “the Next Plandemic,” an expert on pharmaceutical clinical trials named Sasha Latypova will expose how these gene therapies are actually biological weapons and developed as such outside the necessary regulatory and experimental process.
Catch the webinar and learn more at www.StopVaxPassports.org.
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There’s increasing talk lately about the “Great Reset” – a scheme to reorder the world to suit the Chinese Communist Party, World Economic Forum globalists and other totalitarians.
Few, however, understand how such enemies of freedom are engineering the imposition of their agenda on the rest of us.
They call it “global governance.”
A superb webinar yesterday sponsored by our Committee on the Present Danger: China revealed that international organizations dominated by the Chinese Communists, like the UN General Assembly and the World Health Assembly, are poised to assert the authority to crush the sovereignty of individual nations, and most especially ours.
Team Biden is in favor. Congress has, thus far, been indifferent. The media largely ignores what’s afoot. And the American people are generally clueless about it.
That must change now.Learn more – and join the resistance – at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
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You may have noticed that something has been terribly wrong with America’s public health system. One reason is that it’s been heeding World Health Organization bureaucrats doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.
They concealed the fact that the CCP deliberately unleashed a biological warfare attack against this country and the rest of the world. The WHO not only lied about the origins and nature of the Wuhan Virus. It also insisted on the so-called “China Model” response of masks, lockdowns, mandatory jabs with inadequately tested so-called “vaccines” and digital “passports” to enforce them.
Investigators of Pfizer documents found the company and regulators had evidence they were perpetrating a “great crime against humanity.” We need accountability – and protection against the World Health Organization, the Chinese Communists, Big Pharma and our own government doing even worse to us in the future.
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If there were anything more to the so-called “Critical Race Theory” than a leftist hustle to divide and subvert America, one might expect its adherents to be characterizing the relentless attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as evidence of “systemic racism” against an “oppressed” black man.
Forty years of mostly white “progressives” vilifying the content of Justice Thomas’ character and his conduct demonstrate, however, that a conservative black public figure – especially a supremely accomplished one – is considered fair game for transparent racism.
That was true of his first “high-tech lynching” at the hands of then-Senator Joe Biden aimed at keeping him off the Supreme Court. And it is true of the one underway today aimed at driving him from it.
America is a far better country for Clarence Thomas’ service, and we should all strive to be worthy of it.
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The Biden administration says it has a problem with “flagrant violation[s] of our nation’s sovereignty.” That’s the justification given for shutting down an Overseas Chinese Police Station it says was operating illegally in New York City and arresting its alleged proprietors.
Last September, a Spanish think tank alerted the world to this operation used to recruit, coerce and repatriate Chinese nationals.
Unfortunately, the real problem is that Team Biden is actively pursuing policies that will not only violate U.S. sovereignty. They will destroy it.
In negotiations with the World Health Organization and the United Nations, the people doing business as “Joe Biden” are proposing to allow these organizations respectively to dictate what constitutes “public health emergencies” and “crises” here and what we must do about them.
Our enemies call this “global governance.” But it’s a formula for enslaving us.
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I just saw a terrific movie called “Nefarious” and found everything about it to be absolutely first-rate – especially its insights into our times and troubles.
The film features a riveting struggle between a serial-killing death-row inmate and a psychiatrist assigned to do an eleventh-hour assessment of his sanity. Their exchanges provide a window into the spiritual warfare in which so many of us and, indeed, our nation are caught up.
The stakes for a United States of America whose Founders believed it was inspired and ordained by Divine Providence cannot be overstated. We confront enemies, foreign and domestic, who can accurately be described as demonic.
I urge you to see “Nefarious.” It may help you to understand and to respond as we must if our country and her people are to survive the spiritual warfare being waged against us.
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A young Air National Guard serviceman is under arrest, suspected of leaking dozens of classified documents. They disclose, among other things, serious disarray in America’s alliance relationships and inconvenient truths concerning Biden policies contributing to it.
These revelations come as the principal beneficiary of such disarray and policies, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, is continuing to make inroads seducing erstwhile U.S. allies, extending his inherently dual-use Belt and Road colonial infrastructure build-out and otherwise filling vacuums of power around the world to our detriment.
A chilling webinar yesterday explored the question that can no longer be ignored: Is the damage Team Biden is doing globally to our stature, influence and power not simply exacerbating the threat we face from an emboldened Chinese Communist Party? Is that also the intent behind the administration’s wrecking operation?
Learn more at PresentDangerChina.org.
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“What can I do?” You probably have asked that question, maybe daily, as our country is being taken down by Biden administration officials hostile to this Republic and routinely breaching their oaths of office to support and defend its Constitution.
Well, here’s something consequential that every American can do today.
If you don’t want Team Biden to surrender our national sovereignty – and your personal sovereignty – to a totalitarian world government it is stealthily establishing, join us for the “#Whexit National Day of Action.” Go to SovereigntyCoalition.org and tell your elected representatives you want us to exit the World Health Organization now.
Every congressional office in America should hear from at least one of their constituents, ideally on this Whexit Day. Put your legislators on notice: They must ensure our public health policy will be determined by the USA, not the WHO.
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The noose is tightening on freedom in America. Team Biden has been stealthily working to give the World Health Organization sweeping powers to unilaterally declare here “public health emergencies of international concern” – and dictate how we’ll respond.
The WHO is the global entity that insisted on our locking down, masking up and jabbing with inadequately tested so-called “vaccines” during the COVID pandemic.
To help enforce its edicts, the WHO wants to require universal digital identification cards like those used in Communist China’s totalitarian “social credit system.”
Incredibly, the U.S. Senate recently agreed such arrangements could be imposed on us without its approval. Worse, it may soon adopt legislation requiring us to get digital IDs before the WHO does.
Either way, we’re headed for a Digital Gulag – unless we say “No.” Find out how you can do that at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
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French President Emmanuel Macron returned home after three days of wining and dining with the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. No one should be surprised that he just announced what amounts to a “separate peace” with his hosts, even though they are our time’s existential threat to freedom.
After all, Macron is not simply the latest poster child of the CCP’s “elite capture.” Neither is he simply reverting to the Gaullist tradition of a France independent from and a thorn in the side of the Americans who liberated his country.
A further factor is the calculation other U.S. allies and partners are also making in response to a Biden administration seemingly set on being “no worse friend, no better enemy.” That’s a formula for more enemies and far fewer friends that the Chinese Communists are happy to exploit, to our mortal peril.
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Predictably, the Chinese Communist Party has responded to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s meeting last week with Taiwan’s president by conducting increasingly aggressive military drills and other preparations for a shooting war.
Even as that prospect continues to grow, American “friends of China” continue irresponsibly and recklessly to enable the CCP to inflict harm on us in the event of conflict. A prime example is Wall Street’s ongoing practice of investing our pension plans, mutual funds, etc. in Communist Chinese companies – even though, in the event of a conflict, every dime would surely be lost.
Then, there’s travesties like the Governor of Michigan giving an explicitly CCP corporation called Gotion $700 million in subsidies to purchase – and, inevitably, despoil – pristine land in the state’s heartland without any regard for the national security risks.
We need a war-footing, not more of such suicidal behavior.
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Seventy-five years ago today, the World Health Organization began as a voluntary association of sovereign nations, animated by a common desire to improve public health globally with advice and support from a multilateral agency’s experts.
Unfortunately, if the Biden administration, the Chinese Communist Party and others have their way, the WHO will be stealthily and unrecognizably transformed into an instrument for world government, imperiling national and personal sovereignty – and public health. Imagine the WHO’s disastrous performance in the COVID-19 pandemic on steroids.
Incredibly, the U.S. Senate recently voted, in effect, to allow that transformation to happen without its review or approval.
The implications for Americans, our freedoms and constitutional Republic are so dire as to compel U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization. To that end, a remarkable new Sovereignty Coalition was launched this week.
Learn more – and join us – at SovereigntyCoalition.org.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met yesterday at the Reagan Library with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. He seemed to be channeling the Gipper in standing up for both Taiwan and America in the face of what the former president would surely describe as today’s “existential threat to freedom”: the Chinese Communist Party.
Predictably, the bullies in Beijing reacted badly, threatening reprisals for this purported “threat to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” To his credit, Speaker McCarthy doubled- down, telling Fox News host Laura Ingraham that he would move legislation to revoke the PRC’s most favored nation status and speed up weapons deliveries to Taiwan.
Such robustness stands in stark contrast to the Biden administration’s default setting of mollifying and appeasing Xi Jinping. That only emboldens the Chinese Communist Party, when we should be doing everything possible to deter, delegitimate and destroy it.
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Mexico’s hard-left president Manuel Lopez Obrador has written Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping asking for “help” with the burgeoning trafficking of the murderous synthetic opioid known as fentanyl.
That’s like asking an arsonist to help fight fires he’s setting.
In fact, Xi’s regime has long actively enabled what amounts to chemical warfare against the United States. These days that’s primarily being done by the Chinese Communist Party allowing the shipment of the drug’s precursor chemicals to be assembled and smuggled across our border in immense quantities by Mexican drug cartels. The Chinese also help lubricate the operation by laundering its windfall profits.
Like the cartels, the CCP is a transnational criminal organization. It must be prosecuted as such – the subject of my new book, The Indictment,not legitimated or otherwise invited to expand its presence in Mexico’s incipient failed state.
The Chinese Communist Party has been likened to the Borg, a Star Trek supervillain that seeks to collectivize everything. The Borg’s chilling admonition that “resistance is futile” comes to mind amidst revelations of yet another weaponized CCP phone application seducing, monitoring and exploiting American users.
The app is called Pinduoduo and a CNN investigation concluded that it utilizes “the most dangerous malware ever found in mainstream apps.” That’s because Pinduoduo’s program takes advantage of vulnerabilities in android phones to steal personal data, spy on its users and evade efforts to detect or remove the malicious software.
Pinduoduo calls to mind George H.W. Bush’s remark about being “in deep doo doo.” That’s where we’ll surely be if we continue to allow the Chinese Communist Party to use this app, TikTok and other toxic information technology to wage “unrestricted warfare” against us.
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British wit Samuel Johnson described second marriages as “the triumph of hope over experience.” So is Wall Street’s enthusiasm for sinking billions more of our money in Chinese Communist e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba.
After all, the company is a case study in the dangers of investing in China. Its founder, Jack Ma, ran afoul of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, and his company was punished, resulting in a dramatic and protracted loss in share value. There is no guarantee that similar non-market forces won’t adversely impact U.S. investors in companies like Alibaba in the future.
The larger problem, however, for Americans whose pension funds or other investments have been sunk in Chinese corporations is that, in the event of the shooting war that Xi seems intent on launching, they will lose every cent. U.S. investors must divest from Communist China while they still can.
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The indictment of former President Donald Trump in New York yesterday coincided with a number of other recent, politically charged developments, including successive assaults on red state legislatures by so-called “transurrectionist” individuals, that fit a troubling pattern. They all seem calculated to change the subject.
What we should be focused upon is the fundamental transformation of our country now underway at the hands of the most radical and anti-constitutional administration in our nation’s history. Team Biden’s wrecking operation at home – including, as a practical matter, the curtailing of our freedoms – combined with its disastrous policies abroad that benefit our nation’s enemies demand not only our urgent attention, but corrective actions.
By distracting, dividing and radicalizing us, however, enemies within and outside our country are being enabled and encouraged to redouble their efforts to take down America. We must stand fast against them.
If elected president, Senator Barack Obama promised a “fundamental transformation of the United States of America.” In the course of what’s been called his third term, a nominal Biden administration dominated by Obama’s staff is in the process of fundamentally transforming the world.
Reflect, for example, on the Middle East at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency. Our most important regional ally, Israel, had arguably never been stronger. Its strategic alliance with the U.S. was robust, encouraging stability through peace accords with former adversaries and isolating and deterring their common enemy, Iran.
As an extremely timely Center for Security Policy webinar yesterday made clear, Israel is now isolated, undermined by Biden’s Obama retreads, dangerously divided at home and facing an array of emboldened foes, including a nuclear-capable Iran backed by Communist China. That’s a formula literally for disaster.
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The Biden administration has a plan for the next pandemic or other “public health emergency of international concern”: Make it worse. In fact, one might, like Lenin, say “The worse the better.”
That would be the effect of surrendering our sovereignty over declaring and responding to such events to an unaccountable proto-world government doing business as the UN’s World Health Organization. Never mind the WHO recommended disastrous policies during the COVID-19 pandemic that helped kill over a million Americans.
Yesterday, Senator Ron Johnson tried to ensure the U.S. Senate would be able to vote down the disastrous agreement with the WHO that Team Biden is secretly negotiating. His Democratic colleagues blocked him.
As a result, we now have no choice but to withdraw from the World Health Organization beforeit finishes off more of us, and our constitutional Republic.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Have you noticed the peculiar reporting about the mass murder at a Nashville elementary school yesterday? It’s striking as much for what is not being said as what is.
Consider, for example, how this shooting would have been covered if a practicing Christian had attacked a school or other venue populated by so-called “transgender” individuals, instead of the other way around. You can bet the narrative would have been all about the threat posed to a victimized community by militant Christianity, and the perpetrator’s character and associates would have been exhaustively critiqued.
In this case, we need to examine and determine if government officials’ “othering” of Christians as potential “domestic terrorists” and “violent extremists” is contributing to increasing persecution of believers here. Moreover, whether such behavior was a decisive factor in this attack or not, it must be condemned and stopped now.
In February 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the nation’s governors they’re being targeted by Chinese Communist Party influence operators. Now, even Joe Biden’s Director of National Intelligence is piling on:
“Beijing [is] redoubling its efforts to build influence at the state and local level to shift U.S. policy in China’s favor because of Beijing’s belief that local officials are more pliable than their federal counterparts.”
Such pliability is evident in Michigan where Governor Gretchen Whitmer is giving the Chinese Communist Party $700 million to build not only “influence” there, but a Gotion Inc. electric vehicle battery factory. The company will also “set up a Party organization and carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China.”
Fortunately, Michiganders are rejecting this obvious national security threat. Why isn’t the Chiden administration?
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify today before the House Energy Committee. According to a prepared statement, he’ll tell lawmakers that his company, “ByteDance, is not an agent of China or any other country.” And it stores “American data…on American soil, by an American company, overseen by American personnel.”
In fact, like all Chinese and other companies doing business in China, ByteDance must work for the Chinese Communist Party. It does what it’s told, including harvesting immense quantities of personal data from its users that the CCP weaponizes.
But even if that were not so, there’s no disputing the even more insidious feature of TikTok’s toxically addictive platform: It is used by our mortal enemy to propagandize mostly young and impressionable American users to hate our country and admire Communist China.
Shut TikTox down.
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Among the most dangerous of Joe Biden’s many assaults on our freedoms is a so-called Central Bank Digital Currency initiative. The banking crisis spawned by his administration’s disastrous spending and inflation is accelerating its plan to replace cash with government-controlled digital dollars that will enable the feds to control us, too.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned yesterday that a CBDC enables the Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian “Social Credit System,” which uses access to money, among other things, to reward and punish individuals’ behavior. He is proposing legislation to keep his state CBDC-free – and, hopefully, provide a model for others across the nation.
Meanwhile, the Texas legislature is considering an actual alternative to Biden’s “Controlled Banking Denies Cash” – a state-issued, gold-backed “Texas Transactional Gold” digital currency with privacy guarantees and useable via a debit-card like old-fashioned dollars.
Learn more at EconomicWarRoom.com.
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Today, Chinese emperor Xi Jinping visits Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Xi promises a “new chapter” in ties between the two countries. That’s ominous since the “chapter” they opened thirteen months ago in Beijing apparently greenlighted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
In the intervening period, the Russians have – with China’s underwriting and arms – invaded and relentlessly destroyed Ukrainian territory, population centers and infrastructure. Aiding their victims has hugely distracted the West from addressing the growing Chinese threat and depleted our resources for countering it.
This summit will likely greenlight new aggression by the Chinese Communist Party against Taiwan and us, perhaps with additional fronts opened by Xi’s puppets in Iran and North Korea.
Memo to Vladimir: Better watch your back. It’s no accident, comrade, that the CCP just issued new maps giving Chinese names to eight eastern Russian cities.
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Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan described the totalitarian communist enemy that threatened to destroy our country as “the Evil Empire.” That famous presidential depiction of the Soviet Union was key to the strategy he successfully pursued to “leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history.”
Tragically, we face today another Marxist-Leninist regime busily establishing an empire that is, if anything, even more evil and certainly far more of what Reagan called “an existential threat to freedom” than the USSR was in its heyday.
That threat emanates from the Chinese Communist Party waging “unrestricted warfare” against us to achieve “global governance” expressly embraced by its megalomaniacal emperor, Xi Jinping.
We must do as Ronald Reagan did: recognize the spiritualnature of the war we are in; delegitimize our evil enemy; and adopt and execute a strategy for its decisive defeat.
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The Biden administration has finally declared the Chinese company that owns the application known as TikTok must be sold to a U.S. one or stop operating in this country.
Of course, the real owner of TikTok – and every other business in China – is the Chinese Communist Party. Accordingly, Byte dance does what it is told by the CCP, notably with the immense amounts personal information it collects from users. In practice, that means surrendering such data to the Party, which weaponizes it against them, and the rest of us.
TikTok does so by making its platform as addictive as possible. The resulting, detailed personal profiles translate into “digital twins,” exploitable for espionage, cyberwarfare and, ultimately, controlling the real one. The CCP also toxically utilizes TikTok to indoctrinate users to admire China and hate America.
No more games. TikTok must be shut down.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, two Russian fighter aircraft intercepted and destroyed an expensive unmanned American aircraft in international air space over the Black Sea. This was not, as the Pentagon would have us believe, an incident caused Kremlin pilots’ recklessness or unprofessionalism.
Rather, it was a deliberate act, designed to discourage the U.S. military from conducting legal and valuable intelligence collection against hostile powers with unarmed assets. It was also an ominous leading indicator of the erosion of our deterrence to acts of aggression.
Russia isn’t the first to thus demonstrate that America no longer operates from a position of assuring peace through strength. After all, the senior member of Vladimir Putin’s “no limits partnership,” the Chinese Communist Party, has been endangering even manned U.S. aircraft in the Pacific. Team Biden’s feckless responses to date invite further testing of our perceived weakness – and worse.
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Where could the collapse of two prominent regional banks – and the response to their failures – leave us? The Biden administration has effectively insured depositors’ entire accounts, not just the $250,000 supposedly guaranteed.
That’s obviously unsustainable if the banking industry continues to be rocked by instability. So, there is increasing speculation that the federal government will seize upon this pretext to accelerate the introduction of a Central Bank Digital Currency, and what amounts to its compulsory adoption by the American people.
When combined with Team Biden’s simultaneous efforts to empower the World Health Organization to dictate our public health policies and practices – including by globally mandating “smart” medical cards, we could shortly be condemned to what amounts to the sort of “digital gulag” the Chinese Communists call the “Social Credit System.”
We must not go there.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Team Biden’s systematic dismantling of U.S. prestige, influence and security arrangements epitomized by its surrender of Afghanistan lurched forward last week as the Chinese Communist Party supplanted America in the heart of the Middle East. Think of it as Afghanistan 2.0.
Beijing changed the Mideast’s balance of power by brokering a deal of uncertain durability, but potentially calamitous strategic repercussions, between Saudi Arabia and its mortal enemies, the mullahs of Iran. The effect will be probably to ensure that the Iranian regime finally gets the Bomb – and, if so, likely uses it.
With the Saudis’ apparent removal from the region’s anti-Iran camp, the Biden administration has also furthered its aggressive undermining of our one real ally in the region – and the most likely immediate target of an Iranian nuclear attack: Israel.
Goodbye Pax Americana. Brace yourself for “Pox” CCP.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Team Biden’s systematic dismantling of U.S. prestige, influence and security arrangements epitomized by its surrender of Afghanistan lurched forward last week as the Chinese Communist Party supplanted America in the heart of the Middle East. Think of it as Afghanistan 2.0.
Beijing changed the Mideast’s balance of power by brokering a deal of uncertain durability, but potentially calamitous strategic repercussions, between Saudi Arabia and its mortal enemies, the mullahs of Iran. The effect will probably be to ensure that the Iranian regime finally gets the Bomb – and, if so, likely uses it.
With the Saudis’ apparent removal from the region’s anti-Iran camp, the Biden administration has also furthered its aggressive undermining of our one real ally in the region – and the most likely immediate target of an Iranian nuclear attack: Israel.
Goodbye Pax Americana. Brace yourself for not so “Pax” CCP.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Evidence is accumulating that the Chinese Communist Party is poised to add a shooting war to the pre-kinetic “unrestricted warfare” against America in which it has long engaged. Increasingly shrill rhetoric about the United States – including Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s recent comment that conflict is “inevitable” if we do not change course – is being accompanied by, among other things, the stand-up of defense mobilization offices across China.
Center for Security Policy expert Dr. Bradley Thayer says dictator Xi Jinping is preparing his people for the sacrifices associated with a long conventional, or even a nuclear, war with the United States. He believes that will entail violent action against the American homeland, not just our friends, interests and assets in the Western Pacific.
U.S. leaders’ failure to warn our people of this danger, and act now to deter it, is criminally malfeasant.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Marx Brothers had a famous routine in which, when they were engaged in an obvious flim-flam, an incredulous observer was asked: “Who you gonna believe – me or your own eyes?”
That question occurs in the wake of a congressional hearing on Tuesday examining whether the so-called COVID-19 virus came from nature or was genetically engineered in a laboratory in Wuhan, China tied to the CCP’s illegal biological warfare program. Every witness agreed that the lab origin hypothesis is not some off-the-wall “conspiracy theory.”
Indeed, yesterday’s testimony establishes what your own eyes can clearly see: Dr. Tony Fauci was spending taxpayer money at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to pay for the sort of genetic modifications to corona viruses found in the original COVID one. He lied to cover that up and must be held accountable for doing so.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tore into Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing clips from official videos that reveal the events of January 6, 2021 did not amount toa “violent insurrection.”
The now-available evidence establishes that, compared with what Democrats and their media proxies insisted were “mostly peaceful demonstrations” as Black Lives Matter and Antifa mobs sacked cities across the country in 2020, violence in the Capitol that day, while deplorable, was exceptional, limited and at least some of it apparently caused by provocateurs.
Sen. Schumer declared, “When people don’t believe elections are on the level, that’s the beginning of the end of this bold experiment in democracy.” Actually, the beginning would be when, as in 2020, the public has abundant reason to believe elections are not free and fair – notwithstanding “Big Lies” from him and other partisans.
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The Wall Street Journal disclosed this week that the Chinese Communist Party has again penetrated our country, this time in a way that is far more dangerous and difficult to counteract than its recent spy balloon escapade.
Giant Chinese-supplied cranes used to move containers at ports across the country lend themselves to intelligence collection and disruptions. What could possibly go wrong, especially in the event of conflict? The short answer is: Plenty. Worse yet, our dependency on such cranes is just one example of our insane practice of putting equipment from China in our critical infrastructure. Possibly even more catastrophic is our reliance on some 400 Chinese high-voltage transformers now integrated into our electric grid. Mr. Trump promised Saturday that, if reelected, he would propose a four-year plan to wean ourselves off of “essential goods” from China. That must start now. This is Frank Gaffney.
About ninety minutes into an epic CPAC speech on Saturday, Donald Trump declared anew that the United States must withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party-controlled World Health Organization, better known as the WHO.
In classic Trumpian fashion, he said those letters stand for “We Hide Outbreaks.” Alternatively, there’s “We Help Othering” or “We Host Operations.”
The WHO has reliably done all three for the CCP – at horrific cost to Americans and others. It lied about the nature of the COVID-19 virus. It justified the divide-and-conquer technique that “othered” the unvaccinated. And it systematically promoted the totalitarian “China Model” of lockdowns and jab mandates that crushed our economy, stole our freedoms and helped defeat President Trump.
Now, the Chinese Communists and Team Biden want to give the WHO even more controlover us. We must leave it now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Biden administration is currently consumed with a war it failed to deter in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Team Biden’s willful blindness about a far greater threat – namely, the Chinese Communist Party and its determination to dominate the world – risks a failure to deter the CCP from opening a second front in the Pacific. It could begin at any time, perhaps with a distracting attack by North Korea on its neighbors and our forces on their territories.
Worse still, yet another war front looms. Thanks to two years of delusional Biden diplomacy that simply bought time for Iran to complete its nuclear weapons program, the mullahs are now assessed to have enough highly enriched uranium to get the Bomb within days.
For over four decades Iran’s regime has promised “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” Will Joe Biden fail to deter that, too?
This is Frank Gaffney.
A team leader named Dr. Chris Flowers investigating corporate documents concerning Pfizer’s COVID “vaccines” just warned that these drugs “look like targeted weapons towards working persons and more towards…working women…affecting… birth rates…and our populations over time.” This revelation comes as the Biden administration secretly negotiates to empower the World Health Organization to dictate our future public health policies and practices. That’s the organization that helped impose mask, lockdown and vaccine mandates for COVID at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party – and to the grave detriment of our physical wellbeing,economy and freedoms. Our only hope to prevent a new and far more dangerous health tyranny, the end of our sovereignty and constitutional Republic is to withdraw from the WHO. Given such stakes, Congress must make doing so a condition of any further increase in the national debt ceiling. This is Frank Gaffney.
On Tuesday night, the new House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party threat held its first hearing. An indication of the panel’s promise came from an unlikely source: The PRC “demand[ed]” that it “stop denigrating the Communist Party of China.”
Beijing is terrified at what the Committee has a unique opportunity to do – and seems set to accomplish – namely, not “denigrating” the CCP, but delegitimating it.
The Committee can quickly establish that the Chinese Communist Party is, actually, a Transnational Criminal Organization. It must be prosecuted, starting in the court of public opinion, for its war crimes against this country and other crimes against humanity. This is the object of my forthcoming book: The Indictment.
To perform this vital mission, the Committee must expose not only the CCP’s “unrestricted warfare” against us, but also those American elites helping it succeed.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In the intelligence business, “indicators and warnings” aregenerally relied upon to predict dangerous developments. Rarely, does a senior intelligence professional publicly warn that his nation is “blind” to key indicators of impending disaster.
Yet, that is precisely what Rear Admiral Michael Studeman, the U.S. Navy’s top intelligence officer, did on February 15 th with a speech in which he described a dangerous condition afflicting our leaders and people. He called it “China-blindness.” He observed, “It’s very unsettling to see how much the U.S. is not connecting the dots on our No. 1 challenge….It’s disturbing how ill-informed and naive the average American is on China.” A prime-time hearing tonight by the new House Select Committee offers an opportunity to lay out the actual indicators that the CCP is at war with America. Let us pray its warnings are heeded in time. This is Frank Gaffney.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy pledged to voters last fall that, if the Republicans won the House, they would address the mortal threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party. He promised to create a special committee to lead that effort.
Last month, the “Select Committee on the Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party” was duly established under Chairman Mike Gallagher. The question now is: Will it do the job?
There was an ominous development over the weekend. On Sunday, Rep. Gallagher seemed to take off the table what is arguably the single most important matter to be investigated – namely, the extent to which American elites have been “captured” by the CCP and are now playing for the other team. He declared that “questioning anybody’s loyalty to the United States…is beyond the pale.”
CCP-captured elites must be exposed, not protected.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The hallmark of a Communist regime is the presence of political commissars throughout every government agency. Their sole responsibility is to assure the faithful compliance of the bureaucracy to the dictates of the Leader. Joe Biden recently issued an Executive Order designed to establish what amount to commissars throughout the U.S. government. They will run so-called “Agency Equity Teams” to advance “racial equity and support for underserved communities.” They will also coordinate with the White House Gender Council, and their agencies designated “environmental justice officers” and “diversity officers.” The top commissar overseeing this transparently political enforcement agenda will be Biden Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice. Her political discipline was evident in the Obama years when she declared five different times on national television the Obama team’s false party line about the murderous jihadist attack Benghazi. If Congress fails to defund this totalitarian apparatus now, we can kiss our accountable, constitutional Republic goodbye. This is Frank Gaffney.
Even though Michele Bachmann is no longer a conservative leader in Congress, she continues to strive to protect our country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
In a great new interview with “Economic War Room” host Kevin Freeman, Ms. Bachmann warns about an impending, stealthy and disastrous surrender of American sovereignty by Joe Biden. His administration is negotiating to make the World Health Organization’s discredited, Communist Director General the sole and compulsory arbiter of what constitutes a “public health emergency.”
Worse yet, just about anything – from climate change to guns to racism – can, and will, be considered such a health crisis.
We must prevent the World Health Organization and its masters in Beijing from compounding what they did to us during the COVID pandemic by withdrawing from the WHO and impeaching Joe Biden and anyone else who would give it control over our lives.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Vladimir Putin really hit Joe Biden where he lives yesterday in the Russian dictator’s “State of the Nation” address. He suspended Russia’s adherence to the Obama-era New START Treaty that Biden extended early in his presidency to 2026.
Throughout Joe’s five decades in Washington, there have been few politicians more obsessed with promoting Kremlin-backed arms control agreements that had the effect of unilaterally disarming the United States.
Experts believe that Putin’s massive nuclear build-up may already have violated the New START Treaty. If not, he has prepared to break out at any time. In addition, his “no-limits” partners in China have amassed their own, formidable nuclear arsenal unconstrained by any arms control deal.
What’s needed now is a renewed U.S. policy of Peace through Strength underpinning credible deterrence – not delusions encouraged by our enemies that security lies in defective treaties.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden surprised everyone by flying to Ukraine last weekend where, among other things, he professed his undying commitment to that country’s national sovereignty.
As it happens, this President and his subordinates are in the process of surrendering Ukraine’s sovereignty – which is a fancy term for freedom, both a country and its people’s.
That’s right: The Biden administration is secretly negotiating to give a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party named Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus the authority to make decisions about public health in Ukraine.
If the Biden administration, the Chinese Communists, Bill Gates and other “globalists” shortly succeed at getting approved either of two diplomatic gambits that would turn the supranational World Health Organization into a supernatural arbiter of pandemics and responses to them, the Ukrainians can kiss their sovereignty goodbye.
So can we.
Learn more and take action at StoptheWHO.com.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This day when we honor two of America’s greatest presidents seems like a good moment to reflect on the incumbent who is shaping up to be the worst in our nation’s history.
Joe Biden’s tenure to date is, after all, an unbroken litany of disastrous policies. To name a few: The destruction of our southern border and the dangerous invasion it has precipitated. The reckless spending that is bankrupting the country, fueling inflation and ruining the reserve status of the dollar. The humiliating and strategically fraught surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban. And Biden’s serial betrayal of our country to the Chinese Communist Party.
In contrast with George Washington, who brilliantly founded and fostered our Union, and Abraham Lincoln, who relentlessly ensured its survival through an unimaginably horrific civil war, today’s president is tirelessly propelling our country’s destruction. Joe must go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Biden finally spoke to the nation yesterday after two weeks of disorderly conduct by his administration regarding the Chinese spy balloon and other, as-yet unidentified aerial objects. It wasn’t very illuminating, other than to impress on us again that we’re in “competition” with the Chinese Communist Party – ignoring the fact that the CCP is, and has long been, at war with America.That balloon’s protracted focus on our intercontinental missile bases prompted our Committee on the Present Danger: China to convene a dramatic webinar yesterday. It examined whether the Chinese Communists think they can fight and win a nuclear war with us. Unfortunately, they have been relentlessly preparing for decades to have such an option with a view, at a minimum, to coercing our surrender. What’s needed is a crash effort to enhance deterrence, not more appeasing “dialogue” with our mortal enemy. This is Frank Gaffney.
There is a tradition in public life that has for too long been honored in the breach. It comes down to this: If you hold high office and perform your duties incompetently, dishonorably or otherwise disastrously, it behooves you to take responsibility and resign.
Today, there are myriad examples of instances in which such a corrective is warranted. Consider just three: The engineered environmental catastrophe in East Palestine on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s watch. The orchestrated invasion of our southern border facilitated by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And President Joe Biden’s serial betrayal of our country to the Chinese Communist Party.
While there are certainly grounds for impeaching these three, they owe it to the American people to exhibit the integrity and sense of duty to spare the country the further trauma and expense of formally removing them from office.
This is Frank Gaffney.
STEPHEN BRYEN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy
- An overview of the balloons flying over the U.S. in recent weeks
- What data could China have obtained from this balloon?
- How would U.S. financial aid to Ukraine impact the security of Taiwan?
- The impact of supply chain issues on U.S. military readiness
CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer, Former federally appointed Director, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Former Appointee, Office of Religious Freedom in Foreign Affairs, Author, “The Challenge of Modernizing Islam”
- The recent object shot down over Canadian airspace
- The Southern Poverty Law Center's attack on the Catholic Church
- A building threat from ISIS
The legitimacy of the leadership of a constitutional Republic like ours isn’t just a question of the integrity of the election by which the president came to power. On that score alone, Joe Biden would be “challenged.”
We now have many other grounds for a lack of confidence in the Commander-in-Chief: Biden’s senility, for one. His erratic leadership concerning on an increasingly fraught war in Ukraine. His dangerous jabs and domestic terrorism mandates. His bankrupting of our country and consistent imposition of policies harmful to our people and their freedoms.
Most especially, we can’t trust a man who has clearly sold out our nation to its most dangerous enemy ever. Team Biden’s bizarre approach to and utter lack of transparency about known and suspected Chinese Communist incursions into our sovereign airspace is but the latest grounds for saying Joe must go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
BRADLEY THAYER, Director of China Policy, Center for Security Policy, Author, How China Sees the World
- News of more "objects" being shot down over the United States
- Why did China send a balloon initially?
- The importance of the U.S. submarine fleet for defending the Indo-Pacific
BILL WALTON, Host, The Bill Walton Show
- Wall Street's emphasis on ESG investing
- Why does the U.S. continue to invest in China?
- How the U.S. bureaucracy inhibits its ability to stop investing in China
DANIEL GREENFIELD, Shillman Journalism Fellow, David Horowitz Freedom Center
- Is an "invasion" taking place at the U.S. southern border?
- Demographics of the individuals crossing the border
- Cultural Marxism's intertwining with corporate America
Reports that our sovereign air space is being repeatedly penetrated, and that it has evidently been going on unnoticed for some time, are profoundly unsettling. Unfortunately, they highlight a serious national vulnerability heretofore unknown to most Americans.
That vulnerability arises from the fact that, after President Nixon signed the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 1972, America basically gave up on most active and even passive defenses of our country. The theory was that having agreed to forswear effective anti-missile systems, it made little sense to maintain comprehensive air defenses, extensive protection for our leadership or any real civil defense for our population.
Instead, we embraced a notion called Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD. Our perfect vulnerability backed by a nuclear deterrent was said to be the formula for security.
MAD is, well, mad. Clearly, we need to defend America once again.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Lately, it seems every day brings a shoot-down of some unmanned flying object in our air space. The military has thus far given few details about what our fighter aircraft have intercepted. So, we can’t be sure that they are – like the balloon recently forced into U.S. territorial waters off South Carolina – Chinese in origin and whether their purpose is threatening.
If that proves to be the case, the question is why the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in such aggressive behavior at this juncture. One explanation is as obvious as it is ominous: Deterrence is failing.
When combined with accumulating evidence that the CCP is preparing for a shooting war, we must immediately do everything we can to dissuade the Chinese Communists from going there.
For starters, we must have a Commander-in-Chief who has not betrayed this country to our enemy.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In closed door sessions yesterday, the Biden administration finally briefed Congress about the Chinese Communist Party’s latest addition to its comprehensive “unrestricted warfare” against our country.
Lawmakers who spoke afterwards seemed properly dissatisfied that enough was done to protect our nation and population against the extensive espionage conducted by a high-altitude balloon – to say nothing of the possibility that platform could have been weaponized and potentially catastrophically dangerous to our electric grid.
Fortunately, the rest of us with a need-to-know about such dangers can get briefed by top experts via a compelling Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar conducted on Tuesday. And, thanks to an important new report at SecureFreedom.org, we can learn how – in the face of federal failures to counter various threats from the CCP – U.S. states can and muststep up to protect our people.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Seymour Hersh, a journalist with a checkered record of sensational, but not always accurate, reporting claims that on September 26, 2022, a covert action ordered by President Joe Biden blew up three of four Russian undersea pipelines known as Nordstream 1 and 2.
Based upon what appears to be a single source, Hersch describes how months earlier, Navy divers executed a complex and highly classified operation to clandestinely put in place remotely controlled explosives.
While this account may or may not prove to be true, we do know that forty years before, another president ordered the CIA to take steps that spectacularly sabotaged a Siberian gas pipeline – causing the most massive non-nuclear explosion ever and catalyzing Ronald Reagan’s take-down of the Soviet Union and its evil empire.
Joe Biden is no Ronald Reagan. But did he reprise one of Reagan’s greatest achievements?
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Last night, Joe Biden reprised in the Capitol the false narrative that election deniers brought us an insurrection aimed at overthrowing our government.
The President neglected to mention that his administration is simultaneously intervening in Israel to support leftists denying the results of the election that brought Bibi Netanyahu back to power with a mandate to reform an unaccountable and anti-democratic judiciary.
Neither did he acknowledge that those leftists are now openly calling for "civil war," the overthrow of the Israeli government, and even the assassination of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
A Center for Security Policy briefing yesterday revealed that Team Biden is threatening to abandon the Jewish State to a nuclear Iran unless Netanyahu reneges on his commitment to Israeli voters to restore historic limitations on the power of their supreme court.
Democracy needs accountable government in Israel – and here.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Tonight, we’ll hear a speech that purports to describe the State of the Union. Unfortunately, it’s predictable that it will further exacerbate what might best be called the state of Biden’s disunion.
After all, no president in modern American history has done more than Joe Biden to foster and intensify divisions between this nation’s people along racial, economic and ideological lines.
This is not an accident. Neither is it a product of presidential senility or incompetence.
Rather, it follows the playbook of Marxists for taking-down countries they have been elected to lead, often under false pretenses. Candidate Biden promised to unify and “build back” America, but has divided and impoverished us by: exploiting a pandemic to strip away our freedoms; fostering devastating inflation; breeding enmity in the name of “equity” and “diversity”; and wrecking U.S. power and prestige.
Spare us more lies, Joe.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On January 28th, the Chinese Communist Party sent a spy balloon into our airspace. It took President Biden until February 1st to order that it be shot down, which finally occurred on February 4th after its surveillance mission was complete.
This episode offers two notable insights: First, the balloon is kaput, but not the rest of the CCP’s comprehensive efforts to steal our secrets, including via: satellites, cyber techniques and countless human “collectors,” both spies as well as students, businessmen and tourists.
Second, the Biden administration concealed from the American people the balloon’s presence in the interest of having Secretary of State Tony Blinken travel to Beijing for meetings meant to promote the idea that the Chinese Communists are partners, not a threat.
The CCP actually is America’s mortal enemy. We cannot safely obscure that reality, or fail to defend ourselves against it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
“When the balloon goes up” is military slang for the start of a shooting war. The Chinese Communist Party has literally sent a very large balloon up to collect intelligence over sensitive sitesin the continental United States and the Biden administration’s refusal to shoot it down invites actual hostilities. Presumably, a determination to avoid any unpleasantness on the eve of Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s visit to Beijing next week contributed to Team Biden’s latest act of submissiveness.But it will only reinforce the CCP’s calculation that it can behave aggressively against us with impunity. Unfortunately, as a powerful Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar yesterday made clear, the Chinese Communists are already at pre-kinetic war with America. Their serialappeasement by our “captured” leadership elites only intensifies the likelihood of that war becoming a violent one. This is Frank Gaffney.
Army Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long deserves the first Congressional Medal of Honor for non-combat-related heroism under intense “fire.” Together with three other military whistleblowers, she has exposed the extensive, often fatal and intensifying damage being done to our armed forces personnel by so-called COVID-19 “vaccines.”
Colonel Long recently told Epoch Times that Pentagon data concerning critical groups within the uniformed services has revealed that, “There is a statistically significant increase in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm in young healthy fit pilots.”
The military’s shameful response has been to relieve Dr. Long of her duties and, even worse, to cook the books – altering the evidence to try to conceal its frightening implications for not just the troops, but everyone who has been jabbed.
Thankfully, Senator Ron Johnson has been helping the whistleblowers, but he – and they – need our support, too.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Biden’s meeting today with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will address whether spending constraints are attached to a bill that will raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
The best way to accomplish real budgetary discipline, however, would be to secure the resignation from the presidency of a man who has over five decades in government proven to be an inveterate binge-spender.
Fortunately, the probability of that outcome continues to grow, albeit not because of the harm done by the trillions of dollars he’s added to the liability side of the federal balance sheet.
Rather, as evidence continues to accumulate that Joe and his son Hunter betrayed our country by selling not only access, but state secrets, and congressional inquiries ramp up that could lead to the President’s impeachment, next week’s State of the Union address seems likely to be his last. Thank God.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On Friday, Air Force General Mike Minihan told his subordinates who provide the military with transportation and logistical support to prepare for war with Communist China. The Pentagon says his “comments are not representative of the Department's view on China.”
If true, that’s an indictment of the Biden Defense Department. It ignores the reality that the Chinese Communist Party is mobilizing for violent conflict with us. And we better pray that every U.S. commander is following Gen. Minihan’s lead, not Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s.
Moreover, every American investor and their Wall Street fund managers better be getting our money out of China. After all, it surely won’t be possible once Xi Jinping starts hostilities. Such undisclosed material risk is compounded by the fact that those investments are currently underwriting the CCP’s preparations for violent aggression – and it must stop now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
I can’t recall over the past four decades a more important, surprising and needed unclassified directive than the one just issued by Air Force General Mike Minihan. He commands some 100,000 airmen who provide mobility and other vital logistical support to his own and the other armed services.
With extreme urgency and clarity, Gen. Minihan has directly ordered his subordinates to prepare for war with Communist China. His focus is on taking whatever steps they can to train and operate with a view to deterring and, if necessary, defeating our time’s existential threat to freedom: the Chinese Communist Party.
The general thinks we have until 2025 to get ready for a Chinese onslaught. Pray that’s not unduly optimistic – and that the rest of our military and political leadership agrees that we must prepare now for war if we have any hope of preventing it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Undercover Project Veritas video shows a senior pharmaceutical executive blithely describing corporate discussions underway about so-called “directed evolution” of the COVID virus. Evidently, the idea is to pursue profitable new vaccines by anticipating dangerous mutations not yet developed by nature, but that scientists can generate in the laboratory.
Sound familiar?
The trouble is that, as Pfizer’s Jordon Trishton Walker, put it: “You have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn’t create something that just goes everywhere. Which, I suspect, is the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest. It makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere.”
In short, if you liked Pandemic 1.0 brought to us by Tony Fauci’s partners in “gain-of-function” experiments at China’s Wuhan bio-warfare lab, you’re going to love Pfizer’s Pandemic 2.0.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Last night, an American hero named Chad Robichaux introduced a Washington audience to the Afghan translator he helped rescue from certain death at the hands of the Taliban. Incredibly, this former Force Reconnaissance Marine and his team were subsequently able to do the same for 17,000 others abandoned when Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan to our jihadist enemy.
The story of these rescues is told in Chad’s gripping new book, Saving Aziz. It recounts the preventable tragedy precipitated by our own government. And it reveals how a remarkable pick-up team of skilled veterans like him, other freedom-fighters and non-profit organizations came together to mitigate the disastrous humanitarian costs of Biden’s decision.
Saving Aziz testifies to the courage of those who operated deep behind Taliban lines and applauds the indispensable efforts of those who backstopped them here at home.
Learn more at SavingAziz.org
This is Frank Gaffney.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is the latest politician found to have classified documents in his home, fueling a renewed effort to downplay the significance of Joe Biden’s mishandling of such materials. What contradicts the spinning is fresh, if circumstantial, evidence that the President’s son, Hunter, shared a secret State Department paper to get hired by a Ukrainian oligarch.
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine discovered on Hunter’s notorious laptop an email he sent his prospective employer. It contained an apparent official analysis of U.S. policy options for possible sanctions against Ukraine.
Congressional investigators will need to explore whether Joe
Biden not only illegally retained and stored such a classified document, but shared it with his son to advance their family’s pay-to-play influence operations. And even more concerning: Was other, highly sensitive information shared with Hunter’s friends in Chinese intelligence?
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A new book about America’s most damaging female spy reveals the difficulty associated with ferreting out our enemies’ “moles” inside U.S. spy and other agencies. For years, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s former top Cuba officer, Ana Montes, worked undetected and devastatingly for the Castro regime.
The failings of U.S. counter-intelligence today are, if anything, even worse. The FBI has not only failed to expose what is arguably the greatest internal threat to our national security ever – namely, the Chinese Communist Party’s suborning of Hunter Biden and his dad. The Bureau actually covered up that fact, as it has Joe’s mishandling of highly classified documents.
Now we learn that the former head of the FBI’s New York counter-intelligence operations has been indicted for taking money from a foreign spy service and a Russian oligarch.
Memo to House Republicans: Overhaul U.S. counterintelligence NOW.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden’s legacy will likely include that he got a lot of us killed by enabling a million or more unaccompanied, military-aged men to enter our country from Sharia-supremacist nations, Communist China, Cuba, Venezuela and other hostile sources, including transnational drug cartels.
From Afghanistan alone, there are approximately seventy thousand who were admitted here as refugees after Biden surrendered the place to the Taliban. Like other unvetted individuals who came in illegally, these potential jihadists have been shipped all over the country – especially to Red States – and allowed to disappear into our society.
If the invaders weren’t armed when they came here, they most likely are now.
Such ticking time-bombs may or may not be under the command of one or more of our enemies. Either way, the danger they pose could be existential.
Is anyone addressing, let alone mitigating, that threat?
This is Frank Gaffney.
This week, Donald Trump delivered a three-minute videotaped throw-down about the threat posed by the Chinese Communists’ penetration of, purchases in and influence operations against our country.
Particularly noteworthy was his warning about the CCP’s ominous involvement in our energy sector. As president, he issued an executive order aimed at halting the use of Chinese equipment in our electrical infrastructure.
At the time, some 300 of China’s high-voltage transformers were already in our “grid,” despite evidence that they can be remotely destroyed. Joe Biden suspended that order. And there are now 100 more of these electrical Trojan Horses in use here.
As a timely new documentary called “Grid Down, Power Up” narrated by Dennis Quaid makes clear, fixing this and our grid’s other, yawning vulnerabilities is – and must be – a non-partisan priority. So is defeating the CCP’s wider “unrestricted warfare” against America.
This is Frank Gaffney.
It’s been clear for decades that the United States is at mortal risk due to the vulnerability of its electric grid to everything from sabotage to cyber attacks to man-induced or naturally occurring electromagnetic pulses.
Every one of our enemies understand that they could achieve a kill-shot on America by exploiting this national Achilles’ Heel. Most have plans to do just that.
Incredibly, our leaders, regulators and electric utilities have largely ignored these ominous realities. Until now. This week however, a new, multiple award-winning documentary premiered in Hollywood with a view to transforming a movie into a movement to secure our grid.
Entitled “Grid Down, Power Up” and narrated by Dennis Quaid, this film confirms our present danger and offers solutions, including enabling the audience to painlessly demand corrective action from elected representatives and utility executives.
Join us today at “GridDownPowerUp.com.”
This is Frank Gaffney.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson had an unsettling welcome to the New Year. In an interview published on January 1st by Politico, the former U.S. senator announced that the Chinese Communist Party is preparing to colonize the Moon and may use force to deny us access to it.
This is not exactly news as experts like Richard Fisher have been warning for years that the CCP is intent on dominating what it calls the “earth-Moon system” as part of Beijing’s bid to control our planet.
But U.S. policymakers – and particularly those involved with America’s space programs – have for decades encouraged the public to believe leftist nostrums about the High Frontier being a pristine international “commons” reserved for peaceful exploration and scientific research.
We’re now in a real – and potentially deadly – space race with the Chinese. It’s one we literally can’t afford to lose.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Official Washington is consumed with Joe Biden’s serial mishandling of classified documents. His partisans insist that it’s not as bad as what Donald Trump did. His critics correctly say illegal stashing of top secret material in Joe’s garage, a file marked “Personal” and an office paid for by anonymous Chinese donors is, indeed, far more serious.
That’s especially so since, unlike a vice president, President Trump actually had the authority to declassify the documents he stored in a padlocked room at Mara Lago with the blessing of the FBI.
The real problem is that Joe Biden’s conduct generally is a grave threat to the national security. For starters, he’s a “controlled asset” of Chinese intelligence. Then, there’s his: surrender of Afghanistan, hollowing out of the U.S. military and destruction of our energy security – among other betrayals.
It’s past time for Joe to go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Three months ago, I predicted that the countdown to Joe Biden’s resignation had begun. Today, it appears to be just days away.
After all, Biden’s own administration now seems to be actively working to force his removal. Serial leaks concerning classified documents discovered in various insecure locations appear designed to make the President’s position untenable.
That’s especially true with a special counsel now charged with investigating evident Biden illegal handling of top secret information and a new Republican House sure to do the same.
Moreover, we simply can’t have – especially at a moment of possibly imminent conflict with China – a President reasonably depicted as a “controlled asset” of our mortal enemy.
Given Chinese “elite capture” particularly of California politicians and senior figures in the Obama-Biden team, not only must this President resign, but any prospective successor similarly compromised must be disqualified.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Team Biden is working overtime to conjure up distinctions between the former Vice President’s manifest mishandling of classified information and that wrongly ascribed to former President Donald Trump. This isn’t just an effort to obscure what appears to be clearly illegal behavior by Joe Biden. It’s a desperate bid to deflect attention from his even more serious misconduct.
The documents in question were reportedly found in offices of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center established after the Obama administration ended. Joe Biden and Tony Blinken are among those who set up shop there during the Trump presidency, underwritten substantially by tens of millions of dollars contributed by anonymous Chinese donors. Unsurprisingly, what might more accurately be called the Penn Chiden Center assiduously promoted a pro-CCP line.
House committees must do an urgent damage assessment of conduct that smacks of treason.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Biden and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts have been dubbed the “Three Amigos.” We should call the scheme he announced on the eve of their meeting this week the
“Three-Hundred-and-Sixty-Thousand Amigos.” That’s the number of aliens expected to be brought here this year from four deeply problematic countries through a gambit that is arguably illegal and certainly unauthorized by Congress. As first revealed by the author of Overrun, Todd Bensman, theadministration is now enabling people who would otherwise have paid cartels to smuggle them into this country to skip that expense and grave danger. Instead, they’ll be authorized in their home countries to “lawfully” migrate, then flown here equipped with work papers and money – all at U.S. taxpayer expense. This process mayobscure, but will only exacerbate today’s border catastrophe. Court-ordered injunctions and impeachment proceedings can’t come soon enough. This is Frank Gaffney.
Brazil is Latin America’s largest country and a strategic prize for the region’s Marxists and their sponsors in Beijing. So, restoring the Communists’ leader, Lula da Silva, to its presidency was a top priority, one accomplished in elections last year many Brazilians believe were fraudulently decided.
For some 70 days, millions of Lula’s opponents turned out peacefully in cities across the country urging the military to intervene pursuant to its constitutional duty in the event elections were deemed to have been stolen.
The armed forces did not act. And, after Lula took office on January 1st, key government buildings in Brasilia were attacked, apparently by a combination of leftist provocateurs and supporters of former President Jair Bolsanaro, who has denounced those responsible.
Like Hitler’s Reichstag fire, count on the Marxists to use this pretext to suppress their opponents – and freedom.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Last week, twenty true conservative legislators – not “extremists,” not “insurrectionists” – tenaciously negotiated an array of important changes for running the new Republican House of Representatives. In the end, six still declined to vote for the man who opposed many of these “rules” changes, but nonetheless allowed him to become Speaker.
They did so out of a well-founded lack of trust in Kevin McCarthy, who ultimately prevailed because he reliably controlled some 200 other members of the new Congress. For example, last November he privately approved an “omnibus” bill that precluded Republican control over spending until September, but then publicly opposed it.
We’ll test Speaker McCarthy’s trustworthiness today when his loyalists are asked to adopt the agreed rules package. Will the Speaker privately allow, if not encourage, some unconservative Republicans to vote down the package, even as he publicly supports it?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Today, Joe Biden will mark the anniversary of January 6, 2021 by honoring people he calls “heroes.” They include Capitol Police officers on duty during the so-called “insurrection” there and others not present but who served a similar purpose – namely, helping Mr. Biden secure the presidency.
Curiously, a man who appears to have played such a role decisively is not among today’s honorees. His name is Ray Epps and he was not only captured on film on both January 5th and 6th insisting that the crowd had to “go into the Capitol.” He claims to have “orchestrated” that happening.
Epps has also been studiously ignored by the FBI and prosecutors when others who simply did what he directed have languished in jail for two years. How about we recognize his service to the Biden presidency by henceforth calling this “Ray Epps Day”?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Why has Kevin McCarthy not withdrawn from the House Speaker’s race after six failed attempts to win the post? It may have less to do with his notorious lust for power than self-preservation.
Under present circumstances, a Republican House is basically reduced to conducting investigations. McCarthy’s choice to perform oversight on China, Rep. Mike Gallagher, says he intends to examine U.S. underwriting of the Chinese Communist Party.
The trouble is that Kevin McCarthy has long worked with Sequoia Capital, a firm that has invested heavily in and for China. The botched Benghazi investigation illustrates how a Speaker like McCarthy’s mentor, Paul Ryan, can neuter an inquiry. Ditto the failure of McCarthy’s own China Task Force to examine financial firms like BlackRock and Sequoia’s enabling of our enemy.
We need a Speaker who will root out the CCP’s “elite capture,” not exemplify it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
No one knows now who will be the next House Speaker – and we may not for some time. Recent insights into Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s character, however, show that he’s unworthy of the public trust.
For example, before the voting began Tuesday and despite real uncertainty whether he’d win the top job, McCarthy presumptuously moved his office into the Speaker’s suite.
Then, during a Republican caucus before the first of three unsuccessful votes on January 3rd, McCarthy contemptibly announced that he had “earned this G— d— job.”
And, one of the twenty courageous legislators who wound up voting instead for Jim Jordan reported that, in the same caucus meeting, Kevin McCarthy and an ally explicitly threatened to severely punish any defectors by barring them from serving on House committees.
Kevin McCarthy is unfit and should withdraw, as he ignominiously had to do once before.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Just before Christmas, the Democrats’ January 6th Committee released its final report. Predictably, that kangaroo court held Donald Trump responsible for inciting the so-called “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol and recommended he be prosecuted. Given the holidays, it took some time, but eventually a remarkable revelation was discovered buried in the Committee’s report. It was a text sent on January 6, 2021, by Ray Epps. He’s the guy captured on video – both that day and the night before – hectoring Trump supporters to “go into the Capitol.” At the rally on the 5th , the crowd suspected he was a provocateur and drowned him out, shouting “Fed, Fed, Fed.” Epps’ text reads: “I was in the front with a few others. I alsoorchestrated it.” Unbelievably, he remains unindicted and atliberty. That must not stand. This is Frank Gaffney.
Tomorrow, a new Republican majority will take charge of the U.S. House of Representatives. Or will it? If Kevin McCarthy manages to secure the votes needed to elect him Speaker, chances are that the next two years will be more or less a reprise of the uniparty’s misrule that we have experienced for the past four years under Democratic leadership.
Take the appalling Omnibus bill enacted before Christmas, ostensibly over the adamant opposition of the GOP minority. Mr. McCarthy publicly denounced the idea of locking in spending amounts and priorities of Nancy Pelosi’s House Democrats through the end of the fiscal year next October. Yet, McCarthy reportedly endorsed this idea in a private meeting at its inception – then dissembled about it.
In short, such untrustworthiness exemplifies why Kevin McCarthy likely will not be the next Speaker. And why he should never be.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Are you bewildered by the recent revelations that public health officials have systematically lied to us about the COVID pandemic’s sources, nature and actual danger? How about the new evidence of collusion between government, Big Pharma, its “captured” regulators and the media to suppress the truth about life-threatening vaccines and devastating lockdowns? Such credibility-crushing misconduct is now compounded by the Biden administration’s schizophrenia about the state of the pandemic. The President has said it’s over. And his team insists that Title 42 should no longer be invoked to deny asylum to some among the tsunami of illegal aliens it has precipitated. Yet, Biden and Company assert that everyone must get serially jabbed. Worse yet, they seem intent on seizing any pretext for reinstituting mandates, lockdowns and digital vax passports. A day of reckoning is coming. Will we live to see it? This is Frank Gaffney.
When a coronavirus pandemic erupted in Communist China three years ago, residents from Ground Zero in Wuhan were encouraged by their government to travel to the United States and elsewhere around the world.
The predictable result was to spread the disease everywhere, prompting our expert Team B III panel to characterize the Chinese Communist Party’s behavior as a deliberate “biological warfare attack.” Today, the COVID pandemic is ravaging all of China and itsdictator, Xi Jinping, is responding as before – namely, byallowing those likely afflicted to travel internationally. Unfortunately – unlike Donald Trump, who acted to preventsuch Chinese proliferation of the disease – Joe Biden has thrown open the southern border and vehemently opposes travel restrictions. Worse, Biden seems prepared to reinstitute Xi’s “China Model” of lockdowns in America. If you find that prospect intolerable, better make it known now. This is Frank Gaffney.
Last February, the dictators of Russia and China met in Beijing to unveil a portentous “No-Limits” partnership. It set the stage for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and likely Xi Jinping’s impending assault on Taiwan. Both men are today in serious difficulty. Putin’s vaunted military utterly failed to accomplish its mission of quickly seizing Ukraine’s capital and vast countryside. And Xi has been compelled by large numbers of protesters across China to jettison his signature “Zero-Covid” policy, his impotence being further underscored by hundreds of millions there suddenly contracting the disease. Hold the champagne as two ominous prospects are emerging: We may soon see vacuums of power in Moscow and/or Beijing quite possibly being filled by new monsters. Alternatively, Putin and/or Xi may resort to waging war on fabricated foreign boogeymen, including us, to revive their now seemingly tenuous claims to power. This is Frank Gaffney.
Four electric substations were attacked on Christmas Day in Washington State and, while it is unlikely that what authorities have downplayed as “vandalism” and “burglaries” was inflicted by The Grinch, the actual perpetrators are unknown – and, presumably, still at large.
Ditto those who recently attacked parts of our electric “grid” elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest and the Carolinas. Fortunately, the resulting power interruptions have so far been of limited duration and impact. But much worse is in prospect if we persist in leaving our most critical of infrastructures vulnerable to not only physical sabotage, but cyberattacks and man-induced and naturally occurring electromagnetic pulses.
Our Secure the Grid Coalition has pressed for corrective action for years, but been stymied by resistant regulators and utilities. Hopefully, a forthcoming, powerful new documentary, “Grid Down, Power Up,” will help ensure we finally do secure the grid.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The term “election denier” epitomizes Leftists’ skill at manipulating the plain meaning of words to obscure, and advance, their political warfare agenda.
They use it to describe people who dispute the outcome of official ballot tabulations. It more aptly applies, however, to those who disenfranchise voters by rigging an election and/or concealing the evidence that’s been done decisively. Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has been widely defamed despite providing significant evidence in Maricopa County court that more votes than the number sheneeded to win were impeded, invalidly cast or illegal. The judge who nonetheless ruled against her seems the one denying the actual majority of voters the outcome they sought. At least that judge allowed Ms. Lake her day in court. Hopefully, she will get another to test whether the appeals court is also populated by bona fide “election deniers.” This is Frank Gaffney.
The Holy Land is on the minds of many Americans this time of year. Prayers for the peace of Jerusalem, a blessed Christmas and a new year filled with joy echo on both sides of the Atlantic. We share those hopes for the region, and for you and yours.
Unfortunately, as a riveting webinar earlier this week made clear, U.S. policies are contributing to conditions that endanger, rather than promote, Middle East peace, including: the Biden administration’s hostility towards Israel’s new governing coalition; its continuing aspiration for a nuclear deal with the Iranian mullahs; its encouragement of Palestinian aspirations that are translating into intensifying terrorism; and its undermining of Trump-era peace agreements between Israel and a number of Muslim nations.
Our holiday prayers should include one for a regional course-correction whereby America supports our friends and opposes our enemies, not the opposite.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In a classic example of why the American people distrust, if not actually loathe their so-called “representatives” in Washington, a Congress that no longer has a mandate to represent anybody is about to foist upon its successor, and the rest of us, a monster. The bipartisan congressional leadership call this 4,000-page, nearly two trillion dollar legislation “The Omnibus.” It’sactually “The Omnivorous” – for its unsustainable spending, its radical leftist policies and other mandates will consumeeverything in sight: Our national creditworthiness. The dollar’s reserve status. 2022 voters’ preferences. And our surviving constitutional freedoms. The collusion of the political establishment’s radical leftist Democrats and controlled-opposition Republicans have brought us this disaster. Those who actually represent us must use every tactic possible to ensure there’s no “long-term” spending bill until after a new Congress is seated in thirteen days. This is Frank Gaffney.
During a dramatic webinar yesterday, China expert Gordon Chang succinctly described the existential threat of our time: He observed that the United States is not at war with Communist China, but the Chinese Communist Party isat war with us.
This insight explains the otherwise inexplicable: Why do this country’s governing and business elites persist in providing technologies, resources, data and financing that enable our mortal enemy, the CCP, to wage “unrestricted warfare” against America?
The principal reason appears to be China’s successful corruption of key U.S. politicians and corporate leaders. By putting personal greed and, in some cases, ideological affinity ahead of the national interest, such figures endanger the rest of us, our freedoms and the constitutional Republic that is supposed to guarantee them.
We must disengage from China, adopt a war-footing and root out those playing for the other team.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The kangaroo court known as the House January 6 Committee has finally brought its serial miscarriages of justice to an end, predictably, by referring criminal charges alleging former President Donald Trump “incited” an insurrection that day. But, there was no “insurrection.” The Committee’s highly selective investigation notwithstanding, Mr. Trump bore no responsibility for two factors that principally enabled what were “mostly peaceful” incursions inside the Capitol that day. First, the building had a reduced level of security, not a heightened one – including several open doors. And second there were clearly provocateurs in the crowd, some of whom appear to have had ties to the FBI. There may have been a conspiracy to influence the 2020 election certification proceedings. An honest investigation, however, would find evidence pointing to culpability among the congressional leadership, not those targeted by this rigged one’s trumped-up charges. This is Frank Gaffney.
The evidence that Joe Biden is, as retired U.S. spy “Sam” Faddis contends, a “controlled asset” of Chinese intelligence continues to accumulate.
In addition to the multiple indictable offenses documented on Hunter Biden’s hard drive – some of which were laid bare in a Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar last week – two recent decisions strongly suggest that his dad is doing the Chinese Communist Party’s bidding.
First, the PCAOB, a little-known federal auditing agency, has cleared the way for American investors to continue underwriting the CCP threat. That’s suicidal.
And second, Mr. Faddis reports that Team Biden is allowing U.S. companies to do business with more Chinese ones on the grounds that the latter won’t transfer American technology to their government – something they are actually required to do.
Congress must stop such aiding and abetting of our enemy.
This is Frank Gaffney.
According to retired U.S. spy and lifelong patriot, “Sam” Faddis, Joe Biden is a “controlled asset” of Chinese intelligence. According to his son Hunter’s laptop, there’s plenty of evidence that’s true.
That evidence was the subject of a blockbuster Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar yesterday that confirmed the following: Hunter and Joe have long done business with Chinese Communist Party influence operations – and Hunter, at least, still is. The laptop indicates that Joe is implicated in seven felonies. And America’s frontline counterintelligence agency, the FBI, concealed, and thereby enabled, the greatest counterintelligence crisis in our history – the election of a president controlled by our most dangerous enemy.
Joe’s latest service to Communist China? An obscure federal agency known as the PCAOB cleared the way yesterday for American investors to continue underwriting the CCP threat.
That’s insane – and treasonous.
This is Frank Gaffney.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is a man consumed by ambition. He wants to become president and impose nationwide the radical leftist policies that have “fundamentally transformed” – and devastated – his state.
Look no further than Newsom’s welcome of millions of illegal immigrants to California. The increasingly unsustainable costs, both financial and societal, for that state are a cautionary tale for the rest of the country. Yet the Governor – like his fellow Democrats in Sacramento and Washington – has pretended the endless influx of so-called “non-traditional migrants” is no problem. Until now.
This week, Gavin Newsom acknowledged that the present approach to immigration “is not working” and the vast human surge being invited by imminently ending federal pandemic- related restrictions would “break” his state. If even he is sounding the alarm, we must shut down the border now – not persist in policies that are breaking America.
This is Frank Gaffney.
There’s been a lot of loose talk lately, mostly from Team Biden, about the “death of democracy.” Generally, they are using that phrase to attack, and suppress, citizens who seek to Make America Great Again.
A real threat to our constitutional Republic – and the process by which its government of, by and for the people operates – is in evidence, but coming from different quarters.
First, election mechanisms susceptible to fraud have been disenfranchising legal voters. Second, the open southern border is changing the U.S. electorate.
Now, Democrats on Capitol Hill, with the help of some Republicans, are effectively negating the 2022 midterms by enacting a so-called “omnibus bill,” enabling the outgoing Congress to lock in spending and other priorities for the first year of the next one, supposedly under new management.
We must stand up for democracy or kiss it goodbye.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Basketball star Brittney Griner is back in the USA, her freedom from a Russian jail bought with the release of Viktor Bout, a notorious arms trafficker nicknamed “the Merchant of Death.” Presumably, he’s back in business and almost certainly working to help his friend and liberator, Vladimir Putin, replenish the Kremlin’s depleted stocks of weapons for use against Ukraine, adding to the blood of countless victims already on Bout’s hands.
As it happens, this ransom was paid shortly before the arrest of a Libyan intelligence officer named Mohammad Mas’ud accused of building the bomb that killed 230 people when it blew up Pan Am 103 thirty-four years ago.
With the Biden administration rewarding those who take Americans hostage, what are the chances that someone in Libya’s failed state will try to grab one of us to free Mas’ud next?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Just before the 2020 election, 51 former intelligence officials falsely claimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian disinformation operation. Thanks to Elon Musk, we now know that Twitter colluded with Joe Biden’s campaign, the Democratic Party, the mainstream media and the FBI to prevent American voters from learning the truth – namely, that the Democrats’ presidential nominee and his family had knowingly taken millions of dollars from Chinese intelligence officers.
A patriotic former U.S. spy named “Sam” Faddis – who recruited and ran foreign agents for America for many years – is convinced that, as a result of this collective betrayal of the public trust, we elected as president a “controlled asset” of Chinese intelligence. The new House of Representatives must make exposing and evaluating the potentially catastrophic national security repercussions of such a dangerous penetration – and taking corrective action – its first order of business. This is Frank Gaffney.
Chinese leaders profess that “Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” A powerful Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar yesterday made clear, however, that the CCP actually believes it can fight and win a nuclear conflict – and is preparing to do so.
This conclusion was reinforced by recent official reports to Congress about developments in China’s nuclear arsenal. One that is likely an underestimate says the PRC is tripling its size. Another classified document reportedly assesses China now deploys more long-range land-based missile warheads than we do.
We have no counterparts to the CCP’s vast tunnels for protecting and hiding its missiles, submarines and bombers and for moving and sheltering leadership and civilian populations. Ditto its hypersonic weapons designed for preemptive strikes.
Clearly, we must urgently upgrade our nuclear deterrent – and augment it with effective missile defenses.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Global elites have long sought to establish control over the rest of us. Today, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum is pursuing a “Great Reset” explicitly designed to do just that.
There is, however, another such effort underway at the moment – one in which the Biden administration is officially engaged behind closed doors. The venue is backroom negotiations conducted by the World Health Organization. That’s the supranational entity that endorsed Xi Jinping’s totalitarian “China Model,” which responded to the Wuhan virus with mandatory lockdowns, vaccinations and digital “passports” that have helped kill over a million Americans.
The closest thing to oversight of the WHO’s incipient “Digital Gulag” was an informal hearing convened yesterday by Senator Ron Johnson to examine the pandemic and those who exploited it. Secret efforts to institutionalize and perpetuate the recent horrors must be halted, and rigorously investigated.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Eighty-one years ago today, a hostile power executed with extreme stealth and deadly skill an attack that devastated the U.S. military in the Pacific and thrust this country into World War II. We are now at risk of an imminent, and far more decisive, reprise at the hands of a vastly more formidable adversary, the Chinese Communist Party.
This danger looms at the moment especially because the Biden administration is doing everything it can to invite the CCP’s aggression. A Commander-in-Chief deeply compromised by our enemy has weakened and divided our country from the border to Washington, D.C. He’s demoralized, distracted and defanged our military. And he has basically done nothing to defend Taiwan.
This is no drill. Will we swiftly act to make the costs of the next “surprise” attack intolerably high to the Chinese Communists, or needlessly suffer them ourselves?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Someone shot up two transformer substations in North Carolina Saturday night, plunging 40,000 Americans into the dark and cold for at least a few more days. It comes at a time when Vladimir Putin is doing the same to millions of Ukrainians, destroying their electric grid, however, in ways that will make blackouts this winter protracted and, for many, deadly.
I was present last night when Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Institute for the Study of War, a group that has assiduously documented the serial Russian invasions of his country and makes the case – as did their honoree – that it is fighting our common enemy and requires continued Western support.
The evening’s inspiring theme was that the plucky Ukrainians will go without power – and even food and water – rather than submit to Putin’s aggression. Their allies may face the same prospect.
This is Frank Gaffney.
There was a time when national security was taken seriously in the United States. Every government employee was held to their solemn oath to preserve and defend the Constitution. It was unimaginable that a hostile power would succeed in suborning the President and large numbers of other officials. Back then, the FBI would have investigated and arrested anyone “elite captured” by a foreign foe.
By contrast, we just received confirmation from the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, that such practices – which amount to necessary measures to assure the survival of our Republic – no longer pertain.
We now know that the FBI colluded with the Democratic Party, the Biden 2020 campaign, the media and Twitter to avoid triggering the American people’s traditional national security-mindedness, lest it crush their favored, CCP-compromised candidate.
There must be accountability for such criminal and dangerous malfeasance.
This is Frank Gaffney.
At the UN Climate Change conference in Egypt last month, the U.S. delegation led by Climate Czar John Kerry committed this country to assume partial responsibility for the warming of our planet – and to pay what amount to reparations to “developing” nations portrayed as victims of intense weather and other consequences of rising temperatures.
The absurdity – to say nothing of the outrageousness – of this initiative was powerfully illuminated in a webinar yesterday sponsored by our Committee on the Present Danger: China. One of its highlights was a stunning observation: Communist China’s emissions of carbon dioxide – the gas climate alarmists insist is imperiling our planet and the human race – exceed those of the United States, the European Union and India combined.
The new Congress must repudiate Team Biden’s promise to pay the Chinese Communist Party climate reparations. Not a red cent.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Eric Metaxas is arguably the most brilliant, principled and courageous public intellectual of his generation. A serial bestselling author, he’s inspired by and powerfully evokes the lives and works of those he’s chronicled, particularly: theologian Martin Luther, slavery abolitionist William Wilburforce and religious freedom champion Dietrich Bonhoffer.
Metaxas has “channeled” these historically impactful individuals in his newest book, A Letter to the American Church. It warns that U.S. Christian leaders, denominations and houses of worship are exhibiting shortcomings that resulted in their German counterparts accommodating, submiting to and ultimately being destroyed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazis.
America’s Church and patriots must stand forcefully for religious and other liberties in the face of: federal legislation effectively criminalizing their faith’s tenets concerning marriage; official lock-downs of their services; and the rising tide of persecution now abusing over 360 million Christians worldwide and increasingly here.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The White House has long symbolized executive power in the United States. In South Korea, it is the Blue House.
Given the policies of Joe Biden’s administration and the Marxist revolutionary ideology that drives them, it would be more accurate to describe the building he occupies on Pennsylvania Avenue as “The Red House.” Remember, just two months ago, he similarly transformed Independence Hall as the backdrop for a speech defaming half the country as “enemies of the state.”
Two recent actions show Joe Biden’s true colors. He has effectively ignored the massive popular uprising against the Chinese Communist Party that murderously oppresses its own people and seeks to do the same to ours. And Team Biden has provided life-support to the Communist regime in Venezuela by green lighting production and purchases of its oil.
With a leader like Joe Biden, who needs enemies?
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Biden Pentagon has blacklisted aerial drones made by a Chinese Communist Party vendor called DJI as “a threat to national security.” Thankfully, the Defense Department will no longer purchase or use DJI’s miniature aircraft.
Unfortunately, most of the vast numbers of such drones purchased by American consumers were made by DJI or other CCP companies. That means the Chinese Communists not only can access in real-time information about when and where they are flying and what their cameras are seeing. The CCP can also commandeer such vehicles at will.
It’s hard to overstate the dangers of having what amount to Chinese time-bombs operating in our skies. Official Washington is now publicly freaking out that some such drones are routinely penetrating off-limits airspace. What if they are not only surveilling targets of interest there, but ordered to fly into them?
This is Frank Gaffney.
In Iran, Brazil and China, vast popular uprisings are taking place despite actual or prospective violent government responses. Precipitating causes vary, ranging from outrage over Iran’s murderous morality police, to widespread Brazilian electoral fraud, to the Chinese Communist Party’s deadly COVID-19 lockdowns. But these revolts have two things in common:
First, in these three nations, men, women and children are risking everything to demand freedom. They know the stakes and still they take to the streets to denounce the totalitarians and defy their orders to disperse.
And, second, in all three cases, the United States government under Joe Biden is on the wrong side. He wants: a nuclear deal with the mullahs; the advance of communism in Brazil and throughout our hemisphere; and to appease his old friend, Chinese emperor Xi Jinping – not proliferating liberty.
America must stand for, and with, freedom.
This is Frank Gaffney.
We are witnessing an inexorable, relentless and devastating crime against humanity. As a direct result of the deliberate destruction by Vladimir Putin of Ukraine’s power generation and distribution system, known colloquially as the electric “grid,” harsh winter cold is inflicting upon that country’s people terrible privation leading, inevitably, to extensive loss of life.
It is not enough to decry, or even punish, this potentially genocidal form of warfare. We must urgently learn from it being unleashed on Ukraine – and act appropriately.
We’re on notice that America’s enemies are not only aware of our grid’s vulnerability to various forms of catastrophic attack. They have planned, and are prepared, to exploit this national Achilles’ heel by, as in Ukraine for example, taking out critical high-voltage transformers.
Billions of dollars have already been allocated to upgrade our infrastructure. We must secure the U.S. grid now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Have you wondered why America’s young people think: their country is systematically racist; China had nothing to do with the pandemic that has killed more than a million of us; and socialism is a preferable form of governance?
Such widespread misapprehensions may have something to do with the fact that our kids are being insidiously, comprehensively and highly effectively brainwashed by the Chinese Communist Party as part of its “unrestricted warfare” aimed at destroying the United States.
A truly mind-blowing webinar conducted yesterday by our Committee on the Present Danger: China illuminated how the CCP has weaponized a highly addictive app called TikTok. It uses sophisticated Big Data collection and analysis and powerful artificial intelligence to hook, indoctrinate and otherwise subvert coming generations of Americans – even as TikTok’s content inside China promotes instead patriotism, academic excellence and personal achievement.
Ban TikTok now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
House Republicans recently announced their determination to investigate Joe Biden’s personal and deep compromise by the Chinese Communist Party. Unfortunately, evidence abounds of this most serious penetration of America’s leadership by a hostile foreign power in the history of our Republic.
The most recent example is the Biden administration’s acceptance last week of the principle that the United States has to pay what amount to reparations to developing nations for helping warm the planet. If this agreement stands, we can only guess at the extent of the wealth transfer in prospect – and its squandering by corrupt recipients.
What we do know is that the Chinese Communist Party will be a prime beneficiary of this arrangement on the absurd pretext that China is still a “developing nation” and a responsible environmental steward.
Memo to the GOP: Say “No” to Joe “Beijing Biden.”
This is Frank Gaffney.
Our country’s Founders had a central preoccupation: prevent abusive government. They crafted a constitution with a system of checks and balances to guarantee God-given individual rights, prevent the concentration of federal power that would threaten them and repose authority in representatives closest, and, therefore accountable, to the people.
The Biden administration is systematically wrecking this arrangement. It is ruling with sweeping executive orders, weaponizing law enforcement and otherwise a bridging personal freedoms and making international commitments without popular mandates that threaten worse in the future.
Consider Team Biden’s agreement at the G-20 meeting last week to institute a digital vaccine passport system to control international travel. Inevitably, this will translate into new mandates for vaccinations and documentation here, too. Learn more about the coming Digital Gulag at a webinar this afternoon at StopVaxPassports.org.
Will the new Republican House save our freedoms – and Republic?
This is Frank Gaffney.
The clock surely is now running on Joe Biden’s resignation. If promises made yesterday by senior Republican congressmen come to fruition, in less than two months he will personally be the subject of one or more investigations that could lead to criminal indictments.
The most serious line of inquiry would concern evidence that the “Big Guy” has effectively aided and abetted America’s mortal enemy: the Chinese Communist Party. If that’s confirmed, he must be prosecuted for treason, the highest of impeachable crimes and misdemeanors.
In his enfeebled state, it strains credulity that Joe Biden will submit to such an investigation, let alone indictment. In exchange for his prompt resignation, he may seek, or at least receive, a full pardon.
Either way, congressional investigators must ensure that, henceforth, the White House is not occupied by a president compromised by the Chinese Communist Party.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden insists we’re “competing” with the Chinese Communist Party. Actually, the CCP is at war with America and yesterday’s launch of the Artemis I rocket highlights the ominous difference between these parallel universes.
Our Artemis program is aimed at returning astronauts to the moon to advance space science and exploration. Chinese emperor Xi Jinping is determined to have the People’s Liberation Army get there first.
Xi not only seeks to achieve national prestige by winning a space “race.” He’s pursuing decisive military advantage by dominating the so-called “earth-moon system.”
So, Beijing plans to build military installations on and project power from the lunar south pole, affording China the ability to determine not only what happens on the moon, but on earth and the space in between.
This is no “competition”: It’s war, and America must not lose the High Frontier.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Two federal legislators have courageously offered their Republican colleagues an actual choice of leadership in the House and Senate. Representative Andy Biggs and Senator Rick Scott rose to challenge those deemed unassailably entitled to be the GOP’s bosses in their respective chambers. They deserve our thanks – and support.
Representative Kevin McCarthy’s lack of integrity and personal misconduct prompted him once before to withdraw in ignominy from a bid for House Speaker. His refusal to articulate a compelling policy agenda and fund some Republican nominees contributed to his party’s tiny majority this time around.
Similar disqualifying traits apply to Senator Mitch McConnell and helped preclude the GOP’s victory in his chamber. Worse yet, he’s deeply compromised by the Chinese Communist Party.
A handful of Republicans can deny McCarthy the Speakership in January. A majority of them in the Senate should reject McConnell.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In Bali yesterday, President Biden met with the first Communist Chinese emperor, Xi Jinping. It may prove to be as ominously momentous a meeting as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s with Nazi Germany’s Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, in September 1938.
We’re told the U.S. president insisted that the U.S.-Chinese relationship is one of “competition” and that he’s determined to avoid conflict. For his part, Xi reportedly baldly lied that China has “no intention to challenge or displace the United States.”
The truth is the Chinese Communist Party is at war with America. Under Xi, it is determined not only to displace, but destroy this country. If the U.S. government persists in believing otherwise, we will not have “peace in our time,” but be decisively defeated by a Chinese empire that makes the threat posed by the Nazi Reich pale into insignificance. This is Frank Gaffney.
Tens of millions of Americans are bitterly disappointed by the outcomes of the midterms, too many of which remain unresolved.
Numerous factors contributed to victories by candidates clearly less enthusiastically supported – and in at least one case, palpably unfit to serve.
Those include the fact that Republicans focused on turn-out, while Democrats focused on “turn-in” – namely, generating and counting ballots whether they were legally cast or not.
Another determinant was the failure of the “McLeadership” – the GOP’s Senate leader Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy in the House and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Rhona McDaniel – to support and fund the party’s nominees in key races around the country. Specifically, they sabotaged candidates deemed insufficiently loyal to them and their reduction of the party basically to a “controlled opposition” in Congress.
Will these so-called “leaders” be rewarded by being re-upped?
The answer must be “no.”
This is Frank Gaffney.
Today we remember and honor those who served and, in many cases, died in uniform. They did so, among other reasons, to ensure the survival of our representative form of government, by and for the people.
Team Biden claims “democracy” is threatened by “enemies of the state” who are “election deniers.” But the midterms, with their wildly different outcomes than those predicted by rallies, polls and palpable public sentiment. suggest a different threat to our Republic.
If every ballot counts, as Democrats have clearly sought – you can easily get different results than if only votes legally cast by qualified American citizens count. Practices like universal mail-in ballots, unsupervised drop boxes, ballot harvesting, and poorly maintained voter rolls lend themselves to the election of those who do not have the most legally cast votes.
Are our departed veterans spinning in their graves?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Next week, the U.S. Senate has an opportunity to prevent the pension funds of federal government employees – past and present, military and civilian – from being invested in companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
The National Defense Authorization Act is must-pass legislation that would be a perfect vehicle for such a prohibition, provided Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will allow it to be put up for a vote. We’re entitled to know where legislators stand because they are participants in the Thrift Savings Plan. If Senators don’t act to keep their money and others’ out of the hands of the CCP, they must be okay with underwriting our mortal enemy. Don’t want your representatives sending taxpayer funds they earn to Communist China? Then, take action at NoTSPfortheCCP.us, urging them to make it illegal and ensure that others won’t do it either.
This is Frank Gaffney.
As of now, the outcome of the races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives remains unclear.
Specific candidates and local issues are factors. But, given the palpable and well-documented anger of a majority of voters about the “wrong direction” in which the nation is headed, and the historical losses that first-term presidents’ parties suffer in midterms, the Republican opposition should have performed far better.
That would have required, however, leadership in Congress that articulated and pursued a robust platform for corrective action – and explicitly sought a mandate for achieving it.
Compare the failure of Senator Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy to provide such leadership with the crushing success of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who fearlessly did.
The former should have the grace now to yield their positions to others actually willing to lead.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Two weeks ago, I noted that, before Joe Biden and his partisans started denouncing those convinced the 2020 presidential race was stolen as “election deniers,” Democrats warned that it could happen due to problems with insecure election machines.
That stunning pivot is now being followed by another one. Democratic politicians who have insisted for the past twenty-four months that the nation’s election machinery was perfectly secure in 2020 have pivoted to saying that it can be manipulated in this election.
For example, yesterday, the Left’s house organ, Politico, reported that, “There are real risks that hackers could tunnel into voting equipment and other election infrastructure to try to undermine Tuesday’s vote.”
Fortunately, American voters are now onto the Democrats’ game: Material fraud was possible in 2020. They actually perpetrated it that November. Their attempts to try it again today must not succeed.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Much of the news heading into tomorrow’s Election Day is inspiring. Many Americans have already voted and millions more are set to do so in person on Tuesday, with the prospect of a level of turnout possibly unprecedented for midterms.
It better be, because we need to ensure that the vote is too big to steal.
That’s because opportunities for material fraud that roiled the 2020 presidential race remain in place in some states. That makes the presence of record numbers of trained poll watchers monitoring the electoral process not just laudable, but absolutely necessary.
Additional good news on the election integrity front is the return to the fight of True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips released yesterday from wrongful imprisonment on contempt of court charges. Congratulations folks! Now, back to work, when it is needed more than ever.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Communist China announced this week that it had put into place the last section of its space station. It should be a “Sputnik moment.”
Unlike the aging one the United States built with help from, among others, the Kremlin, the Chinese version will be first and foremost a military platform with a patina of civilian use. China’s space station will also be a building block for an ominous next phase of newly coronated Emperor Xi Jinping’s colonial buildout. Within the next few years, the PLA plans to establish what amounts to one or more outposts near the moon’s strategic southern pole. Expert Richard Fisher warns that these steps are among those being taken to assure China’s domination of “the earth-moon system,” a capability that would enable it to project power decisively onto our planet. Will those we elect next week allow that? This is Frank Gaffney.
Some good news emerged from Israel this week. The electorate of the Jewish State finally decided to reinstate a strong and tested leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, with an actual parliamentary majority.
The vote reflected understandable concerns about a toxic brew of growing dangers, including: an imminently nuclear-armed Iran; increasingly deadly weapons in the hands of Tehran’s terrorist proxies doing business as Hamas and Hezbollah; and rising violence by jihadist Palestinians within Israel and territories it controls.
This is no time for weak and feckless leadership in Jerusalem.
Another electoral factor appears to have been a repudiation of the outgoing leftist interim government’s submissiveness to the dictates of a hostile Biden administration. “Bibi” has shown himself able and willing to stand up to anti-Zionists in Washington. He now has a mandate to do that, and deserves our steadfast support as he fulfills it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, made a brief statement in which he did not concede to his opponent in Sunday’s run-off election, Lula da Silva. Afterwards, however, his chief of staff stated that a transition is now underway.
If so, every major country in the Western Hemisphere from the Arctic to Antarctica is now – or soon will be – in the hands of explicitly Communist regimes or like-minded ideologues. That’s dangerous for freedom in general, and America in particular.
To be sure, this “fundamental transformation” has been a long time coming, but it has accelerated dramatically thanks to the Biden administration’s malign neglect, if not its active encouragement. Especially the Communists’ victories on its watch in Peru, Chile, Colombia and now Brazil will imperil U.S. economic interests, assure increased illegal immigration here and cement China’s colonial domination of our hemisphere.
God help us.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Elderly federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt put two election integrity activists in jail yesterday until they publicly identify – and thereby put at risk – a reported FBI confidential informant.
The practical effect of Judge Hoyt capriciously locking up True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips is to prevent them from warning of an ominous prospect: Communist China may be able to exploit access given to sensitive electoral data by the indicted CEO of Konnech Inc. to affect our midterms a week from today.
Suppressing such information could make a difference in turnout and outcomes, just as preventing voters from knowing the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop did in the 2020 presidential race. That would make Judge Hoyt’s arbitrary decision tantamount to election interference. My old boss, Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench thirty-five years ago, must be spinning in his grave.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Whether there’s a political sea-change in the impending midterms depends in part on whether popular revulsion at Team Biden’s policies will translate into repudiation at the polls. That will depend significantly on whether electoral machinery, ballots and Big Tech manipulation will determine the outcome, not legal voters.
Two people committed to genuinely free and fair elections are Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of TruetheVote.org. Among other services rendered, they recently exposed a company called Konnech for giving Communist China access to, and the ability to secretly manipulate, sensitive elections data.
A federal judge is now insisting that Engelbrecht and Phillips reveal the confidential source who tipped them off. They refuse to do so and are being threatened with jail for contempt of court.
Such a travesty would invite utter contempt for election integrity at a moment we can least afford it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Millions of us deeply resent what we have suffered in the wake of the Chinese Communist Party deliberately spreading a virus genetically engineered in its biological warfare lab in Wuhan. Most are unaware, however, that the CCP not only brought us the COVID-19 pandemic.
Communist China’s dominance of the World Health Organization also translated into a WHO-recommended pandemic response featuring lockdowns, social distancing, masking and mandated injections with inadequately tested vaccines, measures collectively known as “the China Model.” That model’s adoption here contributed to a million deaths, a ravaged economy and the loss of constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
Now, secret negotiations are underway aimed at allowing the WHO to dictate when and how we will deal with future public health crises.
We cannot legitimate the WHO’s past, Chinese-directed malevolence, let alone willingly submit to more – and worse – from now on.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Notwithstanding fevered warnings of “threats to democracy,” we live in a constitutional republic in which voters select representatives, not directly approve legislation.
For such a system to function properly, the electorate must be able to make informed choices about their representatives. This requires campaigns and elections meant to establish their fitness to represent us. The Constitution’s framers instituted a further safeguard by guaranteeing freedom of the press, expecting journalists to ensure that evidence to the contrary would be exposed.
The Pennsylvania Senate debate Monday night made plain that Democrat John Fetterman, his family and partisans and the media have been dishonest about the extent to which a debilitating stroke rendered him unable to perform the duties of that office.
Sadly, similar perfidy brought us Joe Biden. We cannot afford any more of such real threats to good governance in America.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In the run-up to the 2020 elections, leading Democrats like Senators Amy Klobuchar, Mark Warner and Ron Widen warned in a documentary film called “Kill Chain” that U.S. electoral machines were designed to connect to the internet and subject to manipulation. They were concerned Donald Trump would take advantage of such vulnerabilities to steal a victory over his opponent.
Then, after Joe Biden curiously got more votes than even Barack Obama, Democratic partisans suddenly insisted there was no basis for challenging the outcome and those who disagreed are dangerous “election deniers.” Call it “The Pivot.”
Now, with the looming prospect of massive midterm defeats, Democrats are pivoting again, warning of impending election irregularities and setting the stage for contesting the results. Republicans have mobilized to monitor the polls and hopefully ensure election integrity. How about making that a genuinely bipartisan undertaking?
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Biden administration has been populated from its inception by individuals playing for the other team. Joe Biden’s compromise by the Chinese Communist Party and his record of policies that advance its agenda is the most egregious example, but hardly the only one.
Robert Malley used to promote the interests of Iran during the Obama presidency, including negotiating a seriously defective nuclear deal. Malley has been doing the same under Biden, offering reckless and humiliating concessions that have only emboldened the mullahs further.
Fortunately, the Iranian people’s expanding revolt against those tyrants is a showstopper for Malley’s negotiations that serve to legitimate the regime the uprising explicitly seeks to overthrow. So, Malley recently denied that reality, falsely claiming that the revolutionaries simply seek greater official recognition of human rights.
We must stop negotiating with the ayatollahs and Rob Malley must go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin used to remove rivals by having them secretly murdered and then “disappeared” from earlier group photos. On Sunday, the newly installed Communist emperor of China bloodlessly dispatched his predecessor by having him physically escorted from the main stage during the closing session of the 20th Party Congress.
Reportedly, Hu Jintao, who ruled the People’s Republic for 10 years, was about to use that platform to warn against the then-impending concentration of power in Xi Jinping’s hands. The party line, however, is that he was experiencing some sort of medical emergency. It was clear from Hu’s stricken reaction to his unwilling departure, though, that he knew he was heading to the gulag — not an urgent care facility.
That’s a tell regarding what to expect from a Xi Jinping unleashed. The trouble is he is intent on disappearing America, too.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The son of the last Shah of Iran, Prince Reza Pahlavi, spoke powerfully yesterday to, and for, the Iranian people. His speech was widely broadcast and well-received. It can help bring down the tyrannical regime that’s long misruled them and threatens us.
The Prince says he’s not interested in running a successor government. But he outlined what it should look like – namely one that is: democratic, and therefore accountable; secular, instead of theocratic; and inclusive, truly representing his nation’s many ethnic minorities and regions.
Barack Obama says it was a mistake when he ignored such aspirations in 2009 in pursuit of a nuclear deal with the ayatollahs. The Biden administration is signaling its efforts to do the same are at an end. We now must demonstrate our solidarity with those seeking freedom in Iran, and actually help them achieve it.
This is Frank Gaffney.
If Team Biden were bent on provoking the American people to revolt against their government, possibly violently, a very promising technique would be threaten bodily harm to the nation’s children. The natural instinct of human “Momma Bears” can be a powerful political force. Throughout history, dads, too, have reflexively reacted forcibly to threats to their offsprings’ safety and well-being.
So, what are we to make of the highly politicized U.S. public health system’s impending decision to compel America’s students to be inoculated with experimental Covid-19 gene therapies masquerading as “vaccines” when they’re known to be ineffective in protecting young people from the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, let alone its mutants?
Worse yet, evidence continues to accumulate that these gene therapies hurt, maim and in some cases kill children, adolescents and young adults.
A dangerous jab cannot be required to attend school. Period.
This is Frank Gaffney.
At a summit this week in Washington, leaders of most Pacific Island nations agreed to paper over differences with the Biden administration that have given the Chinese Communist Party strategically ominous openings for its regional influence operations and colonization.
The Solomon Islands prime minister, however, did not sign on to the summiteers’ joint declaration. More importantly, he has allowed so-called “police” from China to be stationed in his country. Beijing is exploiting this opening to operate in, and ultimately militarize, islands like Guadalcanal that Americans bled and died to liberate from an earlier totalitarian empire.
It turns out that Chinese “police” are reportedly setting up at secretive “service centers” elsewhere around the world, including in Canada and even here. Are we okay with the CCP thus implementing a new law authorizing extraterritorial enforcement of its policies against Chinese nationals and foreigners?
This is Frank Gaffney.
The full extent of the damage caused thus far by Hurricane Ian, let alone its longer-term repercussions for Florida and the eastern seaboard as the storm progresses further north are unknown. What is already clear, however, is that Ian will necessarily require national attention and resources on the home front at a problematic moment.
The nearly simultaneous closure through apparent sabotage of Russian natural gas pipelines to Europe is further roiling the front created by Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion and, now, annexation of parts of Ukraine. The effect, and presumably the intent, is to intensify pressure on Ukraine’s European supporters to demand Kiev’s capitulation to Kremlin demands.
Unfortunately, these developments constitute distractions from the third front: the prospect that after next month’s Communist Party Congress, dictator Xi Jinping will be emboldened to engage in aggression towards Taiwan, and perhaps us.
This is Frank Gaffney.
For decades a vast army of Chinese Communist Party computer hackers has been waging cyberwarfare against the U.S. electric grid and other sensitive military and civilian networks and data bases.
According to the CCP’s top propaganda outlet, People’s Daily, America’s super-secret National Security Agency was successful last June in “infiltrating and controlling the core equipment of China's infrastructure, and stealing private data from Chinese users.”
If true, this would be among the first public indications that the United States is actually fighting back against the unrestricted warfare the CCP has waged against this country for over two decades. We, too, can now weaponize such information, including that of large numbers of Chinese nationals with “sensitive identities.”
It’s high time our mortal enemy is decisively punished for its aggression to date, and hopefully deterred from engaging in still worse down the road.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Will the nationalist-populist sentiment that has recently won power in Sweden and Italy – and that could transform official Washington in November – prevent an impending geopolitical catastrophe in our hemisphere?
That’s in prospect if Marxists in Brazil and their foreign sponsors – especially, Communist China, but Russia and Iran, too – succeed in thwarting President Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection bid on Sunday.
As a powerful new documentary by Tucker Carlson makes clear, the Chinese Communists have already deeply penetrated Brazil’s infrastructure and economy, nearly colonizing the country. If they succeed in restoring to office their aggressive proxy, former President-turned-felon Lula da Silva, our enemies will basically complete their hegemony throughout the Western hemisphere.
The repercussions here would be dire in terms of further illegal immigration, trade disruptions and heightened dangers to U.S. national security. America must help keep Brazil free, while we still can.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Earlier this month, the people of Sweden – a nation long misruled by the left – repudiated their elites and voted for a government dominated by the right’s Swedish Democrats. Yesterday, a similar political earthquake brought to power in Italy a right-wing coalition led by a Thatcherhesque Giorgia Meloni.
The implications of such tectonic shifts for these two countries remain to be seen. But the message to the European Union and other globalists seems clear: National sovereignty and accountable government that protects it from distant bureaucrats and illegal immigrants now enjoy unprecedented popular support.
For us, the question is: To what extent are such sentiments next going to dominate our elections this fall? Clearly, the United States is in at least as urgent a need of a course-correction as Europe. And we must pray that America will secure a mandate for it, as well.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Are we sleepwalking toward catastrophe? Preoccupied with this fall’s election, or simply the day-to-day challenges of making ends meet in increasingly difficult economic circumstances, most Americans are missing some very ominous indicators of serious trouble ahead.
So, it would seem are our intelligence services and national security agencies – perhaps because they’re focused, instead, on Joe Biden’s political opposition, now officially designated “enemies of the state.”
Historically, however, our nation would be on high-alert if any of the following were occurring – let alone, as now, all of them: The Kremlin is mobilizing its military reserves and explicitly threatening nuclear war; Communist China has massively increased its military capabilities and is adopting a war-footing; North Korea has publicly embraced preemptive nuclear strikes; and Iran will have the Bomb at any moment.
Sorry to disturb, but we ignore such developments at our extreme peril.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In President Biden’s speech to the United Nations yesterday, he declared U.S. support for a long list of problematic leftist approaches to, among other things: climate change, food insecurity, human rights, international peace and the LGTBQ agenda.
In the mix, he endorsed a particularly dubious idea: Adding more nations as veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council. The Left has long promoted this idea as not only as a way to elevate the stature of their favorite Third World countries in various regions, but to diminish the clout of existing Western members, including the United States.
Mr. Biden implicitly condemned Russia’s use of its Security Council veto, yet favors giving that power to more states. The practical effect would be to eliminate whatever limited utility the Council still has, rendering it little more than an expensive, but utterly irrelevant, debating society.
This is Frank Gaffney.
It’s obvious that Joe Biden is not actually performing the duties of the President of the United States. His calendar scarcely has anything on it. He’s mostly off-duty in Delaware or Camp David. And even when he’s nominally working, he’s clearly doing the bidding of unidentified others who are actually making the decisions.
This is a national disgrace and a grievous departure from the principle of representative and accountable governance that is at the heart of our constitutional republic.
Now, it has become a real national security threat.
On four separate occasions, Joe Biden has declared that the United States would defend Taiwan if it were attacked by Communist China. All four times, he was swiftly countermanded, again by unnamed White House officials.
Such behavior emboldens our enemies and intensifies the danger of an avoidable war. It must stop now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Texas Rep. Brian Babin warned yesterday that Communist China and Mexican drug cartels are waging “chemical warfare on the United States of America and there should be some real accountability for both of those entities.”
Their weapon of choice is fentanyl, a medical drug China manufactures that is so powerful even tiny quantities consumed unwittingly can be deadly. The CCP uses, among other techniques, narco-terrorist gangs that control our southern border to smuggle it here, killing some 100,000 narcotics users and other Americans yearly.
Beijing has repeatedly promised to stop this practice – something it could easily do given China’s Orwellian surveillance state. But it hasn’t. And now there are reports fentanyl-laced candy is headed our way, potentially putting at risk our young children, too.
The Chinese Communists are at war with America. It’s past time we make it cost them.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The late, great New York Times columnist and pundit William Safire once observed, correctly, that Hillary Clinton is a “congenital liar.” Turns out Joe Biden is similarly afflicted.
A notorious plagiarist, Biden has been reflexively untruthful about virtually everything – including his determination to unite America, the state of our economy, “MAGA Republicans” being “enemies of the state,” and his insistence that the Chinese Communists “are not bad folks.”
While Joe Biden and his friends frequently accuse others of engaging in “the Big Lie” – the practice of dissembling so colossally and repeatedly that people believe it – his own, serial dissembling qualifies him as the Big Liar.
The latest example came on Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” during which President Biden declared, “There’s not a single thing that I’ve observed at all that would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter.” Honestly?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has the Left in a lather for facilitating the movement of illegal aliens to a sanctuary community. He’s been accused of racism, cruelly deceiving and exploiting innocent “migrants,” pulling an inhumane political “stunt” and even of being “a Nazi.”
Politicized prosecutors in Massachusetts and Washington are reportedly menacingly investigating the free flights he sponsored to transfer a couple dozen mostly Venezuelans to Martha’s Vineyard.
Gov. DeSantis is a hero, however, to countless Americans horrified by Team Biden’s destruction of our southern border and the truly humanitarian, economic, societal and national security disasters it has wrought.
Hopefully, the country will decide in November to hold accountable those allowing cartels to traffic millions here illegally and then flying or bussing many of them with little, if any, warning – often in the dark of night – to non-sanctuary communities across the country.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Today, the dictators of Communist China and Russia are holding their first face-to-face meeting since February. If past experience is any guide, no good will come of it.
At the last such meeting, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin rolled out with great fanfare their countries’ so-called “no limits” partnership. What they did not announce, but apparently finalized, was an agreement that the Chinese Communist Party would support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, once Beijing’s Genocide Games were finished.
The question is: Will the two tyrants in the course of today’s rendezvous in Uzbekistan now finalize plans for Russia to reciprocate by supporting the CCP’s invasion of Taiwan once it completes a Party Congress next month at which Xi is expected to get a third term? And if so, will they agree to attack as well our assets, personnel and territory?
Deter them now!
This is Frank Gaffney.
The World Health Organization is preparing to spring on us, not one, but two, different initiatives aimed at enormously expanding the power of that deeply problematic international agency. It just went through the motions of asking for public comments. Here are the gist of mine:
Given the WHO’s record of doing the Chinese Communist Party’s bidding by insisting on ineffective masks, devastating lockdowns, inadequately tested and dangerous “vaccines” and mandate-enforcing passports, it would be utterly insane to increase that agency’s authority – specifically to tell us what is a “public health crisis of international concern” and how we must respond.
A million of us have perished already. Must more needlessly die?
The American people and their representatives in the U.S. Senate must oppose any such surrender of our national sovereignty and/or further compromise of American public health. The WHO should not go there. And we certainly must not.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Biden administration’s wrecking operation with respect to U.S. energy security has reduced our strategic petroleum reserve to its lowest level in almost forty years. Such sales of oil meant for emergency use only – including some to our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party – has significantly increased our vulnerability in case of, for example, a war.
Worse yet, at the same time, the nation most likely to precipitate such a conflict, namely Communist China, has been systematically hoarding oil, natural gas and coal, as well as food, rare earth minerals, fertilizers and other materials.
The CCP appears to be putting its nation on a war-footing. And Biden’s irresponsible conduct with respect to our strategic reserve and virtually every other aspect of energy policy appears to be a betrayal of America’s national security that can only conduce to a Chinese victory.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The federal judge providing much-needed adult supervision over the Justice Department’s unprecedented persecution of former President Donald Trump has agreed that the U.S. intelligence community can continue to assess damage allegedly done to national security by having classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Ignore for the moment the question of whether such documents are even classified, given a president’s unlimited power to declassify such material – something the Trump team says he did. As Mark Levin powerfully argued during his Fox News show last night, the intelligence folks seem curiously indifferent to actual help past presidencies have given our enemies.
Among the worst was Obama’s enabling of Putin’s Skolkovo project, whereby hypersonic missile-relevant and other highly sensitive U.S. technology was transferred to Russia, and probably ultimately to China. There’s been no accountability for the threat from both deploying such weapons, while we still have not.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Sunday is the 21st anniversary of the most murderous attack on U.S. soil, ever. Regrettably, we have largely reverted to our pre-9/11 inattention to the Sharia-supremacist sentiments that impelled that day’s events, even as we have been put at risk of vastly worse jihadism in the intervening period.
Indeed, thanks substantially to Islamist influence operations over the past two decades, too few of us properly perceive that danger. Our government has been reduced to using misleading euphemisms like “violent extremists” instead of understanding and properly addressing the “holy war” that Islam’s Sharia code demands of its adherents. Team Biden actually insists, that “MAGA Republicans” and “Christian nationalists” are now the greatest domestic threat.
Nineteen jihadists perpetrated 9/11. Many thousands of unaccompanied, military age men – including Taliban-tied ones – are now inside, and all over, our country. What can possibly go wrong? Plenty.
This is Frank Gaffney.
I have an important message if you love our constitutional Republic, follow Jesus Christ, are a Republican, want to Make America Great Again and/or voted for Donald Trump: You are now being officially “othered” by the Biden administration.
A chilling video-taped webinar our Committee on the Present Danger: China conducted yesterday showed that “othering” is a technique routinely used by totalitarians like Marxists that, if allowed to run its course, will result in the singling out, persecuting and even destroying of its targets.
The most promising corrective is genuinely free and fair elections this fall that offer an opportunity to repudiate and halt such behavior. Unfortunately, people in power and prepared to “other” the majority of Americans may try not only to steal votes, but prevent them from being cast. That must not be allowed to happen.
Learn more at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
It’s no longer debatable that energy policy involves more than the sources of electric power countries or American states utilize to keep their consumers warm, cool, fed or employed. It is a matter of life and death.
For example, soaring temperatures in California are poised to precipitate rolling blackouts – and that’s before everyone there will depend on electricity for transportation. If heat prostration doesn’t take its toll, power disruption of vital services will.
Meanwhile, Europe will freeze this winter due to the knock-on effects of the war in Ukraine and reckless decisions by politicians to “go green.”
We can no longer ignore the imperative of enhancing the resiliency of our electric grid and the reliability of our energy supplies. Those who pretend otherwise are on notice that, if they persist in endangering both, they will be held responsible for the resulting carnage.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The people of Chile just delivered a stunning rebuke to the Communist they elected as president last year, Gabriel Boric. Call it “buyer’s remorse.”
In a referendum Sunday, fully 61 percent of voters rejected a new, leftist constitution Boric strongly supported. It represents the first significant setback to the red tsunami that has seen one after another of our hemisphere’s nations entrust power to the not-so-tender-mercies of Communists.
The question is not only whether a better constitution will now emerge in Chile, one that will actually check Boric’s bid to effect what Barack Obama would call the “fundamental transformation” of that country?
Even more important is whether the Chilean electorate’s second thoughts will encourage voters in Brazil – the last major free nation in the region, to spare their nation the restoration in November of another dangerous Communist, felonious ex-president Lula da Silva.
This is Frank Gaffney.
As NASA struggles to launch its Artemis 1 rocket in support of a new U.S.-China race to the moon, fresh evidence is accumulating concerning the Chinese Communist Party’s ominous ambitions in space.
Specifically, the CCP is determined to dominate the so-called “earth-moon system” since that will enable them, in turn, to dominate what happens here on earth.
Consequently, Chinese strategists are now calling for the CCP to destroy Elon Musk’s vast Starlink constellation of small communications satellites. That’s not for fear they’ll cause collisions.
Rather, it’s because they will afford global internet access outside the CCP’s control and make America’s space posture more resilient.
The CCP is at war with us and we must not permit them to weaponize space – whether by colonizing the moon, attacking our assets in the High Frontier or launching weapons from there to strike us on earth.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Biden’s Independence Hall speech last night amounted to incitement to violence against millions of supporters of Donald Trump’s efforts to Make America Great Again.
Biden effectively launched an officially sponsored color revolution – complete with an ominously lit Marxist red backdrop and military personnel literally in the shadows behind him. His rhetorical “othering” of “MAGA Republicans,” combined with the imagery, conveyed the unmistakable message that our armed forces will be weaponized against the “threat” they pose to “democracy,” as he has already done with the FBI, the Justice and Homeland Security Departments and IRS.
Biden is right on two scores: “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal” and that it’s a time for choosing. He is, however, greatly compounding what is wrong – namely, his presidency and policies – and intent on foreclosing Americans’ ability to choose an alternative.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Biden is expected to use a rare prime time address tonight to reiterate attacks he has repeatedly made in recent days on millions of supporters of Donald Trump’s efforts to Make America Great Again.
Biden’s description of “his Republican MAGA friends” as “semi-fascists” in conjunction with calls to restrict gun ownership and loose talk about an impending “civil war” goes beyond rallying the Democratic base in the run-up to a critical mid-term election. The question occurs: Is all this calculated to provoke people on the right, and provide a pretext for a leftist government to crack down on them?
If so, more than just the prospects for a free and fair election are in jeopardy. A prime beneficiary, as is generally true of Team Biden’s policies, would be a Chinese Communist Party seeking to take down our country.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On the occasion of Mikhail Gorbachev’s death, he is being credited for allowing the Soviet Union and its Evil Empire to unravel peaceably. In fact, thanks to Ronald Reagan, as a practical matter, he had little choice.
To be sure, the Soviet army still had many weapons with which to kill and oppress. But thanks to President Reagan’s determination to roll back the USSR – something he pledged to do in the 1980 campaign and then accomplished with a comprehensive strategy aimed at bankrupting the Kremlin’s communist system – Gorbachev was reduced to presiding over a national Chapter 11.
We’ll be unable to achieve a similar victory over the Soviet Union’s successor as what Ronald Reagan would call our time’s “existential threat to freedom” – namely, the Chinese Communist Party – as long as we persist in underwriting and otherwise propping it up via “engagement.”
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In recent months, the Iranian regime has redoubled its threatening behavior. For example, it has plotted to kill former U.S. officials in our country. It has enriched uranium effectively to bomb grade and finally acknowledged that it has the option to deploy nuclear weapons.
And Iran’s proxy militiamen in Iraq have just flexed their muscles by attacking government buildings and even the U.S. embassy in Baghdad’s supposedly secure Green Zone. While their leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, has ordered them to withdraw, the point has been made: They can take over there at any time.
Incredibly, Team Biden’s response to such abiding – and growing – threats is to press on with the completion of a new deal that has no prospect of blocking the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions. Instead, it will simply help underwrite, legitimate and otherwise enable them. That’s simply insane, and must be abandoned.
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Whistleblowers have reportedly been confirming to Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley what many of us have long suspected: The Federal Bureau of Investigations is no longer a premier law enforcement agency whose senior leaders honor their oaths to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Instead, the acronym FBI these days seems to stand for “Friends of Biden, Inc.” – namely, the crime syndicate that does business as our nation’s First Family.
Thus, we have the spectacle of heavily armed FBI agents rounding up and humiliating the President’s political enemies, including raiding the Florida home of his once and likely future rival. Even more corrupt have been the Bureau’s efforts to cover up for or otherwise protect the serial lies, corruption and betrayals of the “Big Guy,” his son, other relatives and business partners.
Enough.
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“White supremacists,” veterans, constitutionalists, militia members, school board-protesting parents and other patriots move over. Team Biden has a new internal enemy. It’s now warning that so-called “Christian Nationalists” are suspected of being potential violent extremists.
A chilling webinar last week addressing the “Demonization of America’s Christians” made plain that what is afoot is nothing less than the “othering” of those who follow Jesus. And people like former Trump strategist Steve Bannon who encourage their engagement in political life are being portrayed as ominously “summoning an army” that is somehow a threat to our nation.
Author Don Hanle says the process of othering entails: vilifying a group; dehumanizing its members; stripping them of rights; and, inexorably, subjecting them to violent persecution. This is happening to 360 million Christians elsewhere. It must not be allowed to happen here.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden just extracted from taxpayers a campaign contribution for Democrats running for office this fall. It comes in the form of cancellations in whole or in part of some Americans’ student loan debt, and is expected to cost over $300 billion.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says only Congress can do that, and courts presumably will have their say. But the economic damage will have already been done.
So will the harm to our society. Millions of us who either took out such loans for expensive college educations and paid them back, or simply did not attend college, will be footing the bill, in a classic, Marxist involuntary redistribution of wealth.
“Free stuff” from government for favored groups – especially at election time – is hardly unprecedented. But this gambit’s inherent unfairness and financial burdens on others will feed animosities and further undermine our nation.
This is Frank Gaffney.
One of the most difficult tasks for U.S. intelligence is anticipating what our country’s enemies are going to do next. The Taliban’s overrunning of Kabul, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Communist China’s biological warfare attack called COVID-19 are recent examples of nasty surprises.
Our national security agencies seem no better prepared to forecast the next shoe to drop: namely, military action by the Chinese Communist Party against Taiwan, our other friends and allies in region or even U.S. assets, personnel and territory. The party line seems to be that we needed not worry about such a threat for two or more years.
One of America’s foremost China experts, Gordon Chang, however, points out that publicly available evidence is accumulating that the Chinese are actively preparing for war. This appears to be no drill, and we cannot afford to be surprised again.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Tony Fauci’s announcement yesterday that he would finally step down from a public health post that he has parlayed over thirty-eight years into one of the most powerful – and the highest compensated – in the federal administrative state is a kind of Rorschach test.
Those who have seen Dr. Fauci as the heroic scientist who valiantly, and successfully, led the response to the COVID-19 pandemic are anguished by his retirement in December. For those of us perceiving him instead as the villainous uber-bureaucrat whose role reflected not hard science, but personal calculation and benefit, his departure is long-overdue and can’t come soon enough.
The question is: Will Fauci be held accountable, for example, for the consequences of his enabling the Chinese Communist Party’s biological warfare program to use U.S. funds and technology to create the coronavirus that has killed a million of us?
This is Frank Gaffney.
On Friday, America lost one of its most brilliant, impactful and indefatigable patriots, Peter Vincent Pry. Over forty years of service, both in government and out, he provided national leadership on the need to correct the vulnerabilities of our most critical of critical infrastructures, the electric grid – and how to do so.
Dr. Pry was driven by the possibility that hostile powers, or even Mother Nature, could devastate our country and its people by taking down the grid. He helped create and staff a congressional commission that assesses how to mitigate the grid’s susceptibility to electromagnetic pulse (or EMP), as well as sabotage, cyberattacks and space weather.
Fortunately, Peter will have a living legacy. He features prominently in a new documentary film entitled “Grid Down, Power Up” designed to catalyze a movie-to-movement to “harden” the grid.
Learn more at SecuretheGrid.com.
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The Biden presidency has brought us, among many other afflictions, an open border with Mexico. Communities across our nation are grappling with the societal, economic and security implications of the millions of mostly unvetted aliens who have entered the country illegally – the majority of them unaccompanied, military-age men.
In addition to the obvious impact of thus changing our demographics and later, if not sooner, America’s electorate – in particular in so-called “red” states – Biden’s wrecking of our border has transformed Mexico, as well. The practical effect has been to enormously enrich the cartels who rapaciously traffic men, women and children into the United States. They are now engaged in open warfare that is making our southern neighbor a failed state.
The predictable consequence will be millions more fleeing here – unless the border wall is completed and defended immediately. Just do it.
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Ed Dowd is one of Wall Street’s most highly regarded analysts. Yesterday, he warned Steve Bannon’s audience that “China is collapsing.” He added that, “Internally, [the Chinese Communists] are going to have to create an enemy outside of China to rally people around.”
Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party has already created that enemy – and it is us. Our webinar today will examine the “People’s War” the CCP actually declared against America in May 2019.
The Biden Pentagon would have us believe that China won’t be ready to invade Taiwan for another two to five years. Maybe so. More likely, such whistling past the graveyard bespeaks the hope that we will be better prepared by then to defend against such a threat to Taiwan or to our assets, personnel or territory.
We need to get on a war-footing now. Learn more at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Liz Cheney’s electoral rejection as the sole representative in the U.S. House of the people of Wyoming shows that a condition known as “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which she has increasingly manifested, can be politically fatal.
For those of us who have worked in the past with Rep. Cheney and her similarly afflicted father, this transformation has been appalling. Their stated determination to do whatever is necessary to destroy Donald Trump has given the appearance of bipartisan cover to one of the greatest travesties in congressional history – the Stalinesque January 6th Committee. It has become a personal vendetta that encourages his unequal treatment under law.
Alas, we are likely to see Liz Cheney exemplify the warning about the fury of “a woman scorned.” Wyoming voters’ repudiation makes clear, however, that henceforth she is playing full-time for the other team.
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There’s talk we’ll face this fall new outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Or perhaps, the Chinese Communist Party will subject us to an even worse virus than the one that’s killed a million of us so far.
The Committee on the Present Danger: China is exploring in a webinar at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time today why the United States responded to the last pandemic by adopting the unprecedented “China Model.” That entailed imposing masks, lockdowns, the mandated use of inadequately tested “vaccines” and digital vax “passports” for enforcing them.
Tragically, the China Model doesn’t work. Besides the Americans who needlessly died, countless others have been gravely harmed, physically, economically and due to freedoms lost. Before anyone tries to reinstitute this disastrous totalitarian regimen, we need to understand its failings and hold accountable those who promoted it here.
Join us at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Question: Did the dozens of FBI agents who rummaged through former President Trump’s Florida home do something more there than remove large quantities of sensitive documents?
White House official-turned talk show host Sebastian Gorka told Steve Bannon’s “War Room Pandemic” show last week that a recently retired twenty-three year veteran of the Bureau asserted: “Given the amount of equipment they rolled into Mar-a-Lago and the fact they spent nine hours there, he believes the Bureau planted surveillance equipment, bugs, inside the President’s residence.”
The FBI raiders’ request that surveillance cameras inside Mar-a-Lago be turned off was reportedly not honored by the Secret Service. If so, an investigation into this suspicion should quickly confirm or deny whether Team Biden’s efforts to get something, anything, on President Trump surpassed even the notorious Watergate break-in that drove a previous president, Richard Nixon, from office.
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We once were told that Merrick Garland was a great Supreme Court nominee as he had “unwavering fidelity to the rule of law.”
Indeed, when now-Attorney General Garland announced yesterday that he had personally authorized the FBI raid on former President Trump’s home, he declared, “Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy….All Americans are entitled to the evenhanded application of the law, to due process of the law, and to the presumption of innocence.”
As we await the pretext given a federal magistrate to approve that raid, one thing is already clear: Donald Trump has not gotten equal treatment under law as that given prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder or Sandy Berger. For such weaponizing of the Justice Department, Garland must be impeached, if he won’t resign.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On Friday, the House of Representatives is expected to authorize the hiring of 87,000 armed IRS investigators, supposedly to pursue corporate and wealthy tax-cheats.
In fact, under President Biden, this doubling of that agency’s current workforce of 90,000 employees will amount to a huge new cohort empowered to use not only unwarranted audits to intimidate and penalize perceived political foes. Recent events suggest they’ll also constitute a vast paramilitary force available to perpetrate the sorts of raid mounted at President Trump’s home earlier this week.
Some Democratic partisans are quibbling about the use of the term “raid” to characterize what went down at Mar-a-Lago. Ask yourself: If 40 federal agents wielding weapons and a search warrant they won’t let you see came to your house, what would you call it – aside from a terrifying violation of your constitutional rights?
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A profoundly troubling Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar yesterday assessed President Biden’s takedown of America’s armed forces. As the prospect looms of kinetic war with the Chinese Communist Party, the cumulative effects of his ideological purges, insane vaccine mandates, the ravages of inflation and indoctrination that America is not a nation worth dying for are devastating our only military, and emboldening our enemies.
The question occurs: If Joe Biden were working for the CCP, what would he be doing differently?
I can’t think of a thing. To name but a few other Biden initiatives on Xi Jinping’s wish list: replacing our energy independence with reliance on Chinese “renewable” technologies, among other CCP supply chains; facilitating an invasion by millions of illegal aliens; surrendering Afghanistan; and humiliating and prosecuting Americans critical of China.
Whatever his motivations, Joe must go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
For 18 months, we have been told that a far-right group known as “Oath Keepers” seeks to overthrow the U.S. government. It seems that others, who might be called “Oath Breakers,” pose a far greater threat to our Republic.
Yesterday’s FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home is the latest evidence that Democratic politicians and officials – all of whom have sworn to protect and defend the Constitution – are instead weaponizing law enforcement and other government agencies against partisan foes in a manner at odds with the rights guaranteed by that document, including equal justice under law.
How far will the Oath Breakers go? Will they deliberately provoke President Trump’s many millions of patriotic, Constitution-revering supporters to justify further official misconduct, perhaps to an extent that would affect the upcoming elections? Might 87,000 new IRS agents be weaponized for repression?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Congressional Democrats have cynically adopted a deceptively entitled “Inflation Reduction Act.” It would be more accurate to call it the “Help China Win Act.”
Americans will suffer and the Chinese Communist Party will benefit as independent economists say inflation will be undiminished – notably, devastating defense spending.
Moreover, the Act will advance the CCP’s agenda of destroying the United States by: moving us towards a police state by up gunning – literally – and weaponizing the IRS against Americans; reducing our energy security by further assaulting coal and increasing renewables’ supply-chain dependencies on China; and making massive new expenditures that undermine the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
Unfortunately, such effects are not isolated events. They are of a piece with the Biden administration’s larger wrecking operation that hurts our country to the benefit of our mortal enemy: the Chinese Communist Party.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Historian Barbara Tuckman’s account of how this month in 1914 was marked by military mobilizations and maneuvers that set the stage for World War I was called The Guns of August. Welcome to the missiles of August.
In recent days, the Chinese Communist Party has accompanied live-fire exercises effectively blockading Taiwan with ballistic missiles sent over the island. These actions cap months of CCP preparations reportedly aimed at transitioning China’s home front “from normal to war” to achieve Taiwan’s “reunification- by-force” with the mainland.
To date, the Biden administration has ignored repeated appeals from those like our Committee on the Present Danger: China to deter such Chinese aggression by dramatically increasing its risks and costs. Unfortunately, our inaction before this ominous August and in its course will not prevent a kinetic Sino- American conflict, but decrease the odds of our ultimate victory when it comes.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The Chinese Communist Party has effectively begun its invasion of Taiwan with live-fire air and naval exercises surrounding the island, including some within Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone. This would seem to be a bad time for U.S. government employees and military personnel to have their retirement savings invested in CCP companies.
Yet, as an article in today’s Wall Street Journal makes clear, the CCP’s “Old Friends” like BlackRock’s Larry Fink have effectively eviscerated President Trump’s decision two years ago to bar such investments through the federal Thrift Savings Plan. Our coalition opposing that scheme has established that TSP participants could be unwittingly investing in hundreds of Chinese corporations – including ones tied to its military and/or human rights abusers.
Learn more at NoTSPforCCP.org, then join us in opposing such outrageous underwriting of our mortal enemy.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan didn’t cause a crisis with the Chinese Communist Party. Rather, it has simply brought into sharp focus a long-ignored reality: The CCP is at war with America.
As it happens, that’s the title of a book published last month by the Center for Security Policy’s Team B. It’s available for free at CCPatWar.com – and required reading for everyone suddenly anxious about China’s next steps.
A blockade of Taiwan, further constriction of its own supply chains upon which we heavily depend, more violent aggression in the Western Pacific against our interests and perhaps our own assets, personnel and territory – including further biological warfare attacks like the Covid pandemic – are now in prospect. We can no longer ignore these and other forms of the CCP’s unrestricted warfare against us. We must respond robustly while we still can, or surrender.
This is Frank Gaffney.
The liquidation by drone strike of Osama bin Laden’s successor is a welcome tactical victory for America’s intelligence and military personnel. Sadly, it also reminds us of the magnitude of the strategic defeat we suffered at the hands of their Commander-in-Chief a year ago.
Consider the following facts: Ayman al-Zawahiri was operating in Afghanistan’s capital. Clearly, with America’s surrender of the country to the Taliban, it’s a new haven for Sharia- supremacists the world over. Worse yet, thanks to more than $80 billion-worth of advanced U.S. weaponry President Biden abandoned there, those jihadists are vastly better armed than ever before.
And the tens of thousands of unvetted, mostly unaccompanied young Afghan men that Team Biden allowed to enter and settle throughout America ensures the danger we face from the next Zawahiris will not be decisively defeated by wack-a-mole tactics in distant Afghanistan.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Will she or won’t she? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is traveling in Asia, but hasn’t confirmed whether her itinerary will include Taiwan.
It's better.
After all, China’s dictator Xi Jinping has made this a throw- down and President Biden is, once again, in full appeasement mode. If the Speaker complies with their respective demands that she skip a stop in Taiwan, it will not avoid a conflict with the Chinese Communist Party. It will guarantee it, later if not sooner.
To her credit, Nancy Pelosi has in the past robustly opposed the CCP’s brutality towards its own people and those of Tibet. In recent years, however, her husband has made a fortune doing deals with Party-controlled companies. The legacy of Ms. Pelosi’s Speakership will be enhanced by a tangible demonstration in Taiwan that – unlike Joe Biden – she’s not among those “elite-captured” by Beijing.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden is a disgrace. It’s bad enough that the president of the United States is seen to be increasingly demented and clearly incapable of performing the duties of his office. Worse yet, his characteristic irresolution and personal corruption is surely encouraging our country’s greatest enemy ever, the Chinese Communist Party, to believe that it can engage in aggression without appreciable costs.
That’s not just a national mortification. It will get Americans killed.
For the fifth time in his presidency, Mr. Biden spoke for hours yesterday with Communist China’s dictator, Xi Jinping. The uninformative White House “read-out” on the call suggests the President failed again to respond forcefully to Xi’s threats to Taiwan or otherwise demonstrate the strength that’s the one hope for preventing a bloody conflict in the Western Pacific – which seems not only increasingly likely, but imminent.
Joe must go.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Of all the toxic things the Biden wrecking operation has inflicted on our country, one of the most corrosive is its relentless, further undermining of the principle of “equal justice under law.”
In practice, this entails federal law enforcement treating dramatically differently alleged wrongdoing by prominent Republicans and Democrats.
The latest examples involve the Justice Department’s reported plans to indict former President Donald Trump on the absurd proposition that he engaged in a seditious conspiracy to overthrow our government on January 6th.
Meanwhile, unidentified whistleblowers have revealed that the DoJ and FBI have studiously ignored hard evidence that Hunter Biden and “the Big Guy” – his father, Joe – have actually sold out our country to its mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.
Biden’s weaponizing of our system of justice really will take down our Constitutional Republic, and embolden the CCP to pile on.
This is Frank Gaffney.
A new McLaughlin poll commissioned by our Committee on the Present Danger: China has several impressive – and potentially politically consequential – findings:
First, 60 percent of those sampled agreed that the Chinese Communist Party deliberately unleashed the COVID-19 virus on the world.
Second, 60 percent also agreed that the CCP should be held accountable for the deaths of roughly 1 million Americans, the immense economic damage and the loss of personal freedoms caused by the pandemic.
And third, roughly 70 percent said they or their family had been negatively affected by the pandemic.
What makes these data remarkable – and actionable – is that, for the better part of three years, virtually every media and governmental instrument available has relentlessly disinformed, discouraged and outright “cancelled” such sentiments.
Finally, 76 percent said that a candidate’s position on China would be “important” or “a consideration” in their vote.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Every American has a stake in the answer to this question: Should infants as young as six-months-old be injected with the Covid vaccines the Food and Drug Administration has recently approved?
After all – even if you are not the parent of a child now eligible to receive vaccines authorized by the FDA without adequate testing – you and the rest of our society will wind up bearing the costs of inflicting on our kids potentially profoundly debilitating illnesses and the associated human and financial costs.
Such real risks are to be incurred in order to protect them against the statistically negligible likelihood of contracting this disease, let alone suffering seriously from it.
Given these stakes, you have a need to know the facts. Join our webinar at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time today entitled: “Covid Jabs:They’re Coming for Your Babies” at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus helped the Chinese Communist Party impose the “China Model” worldwide by blessing its unprecedented – and devastatingly counterproductive – program of lockdowns, mask mandates, compulsory jabs with inadequately tested and problematic “vaccines” and enforcement via “vaccine passports.”
As our new book, The CCP is at War with America, makes clear, China’s Model also enabled electoral arrangements and political abuses that contributed to Donald Trump’s defeat. Could another mishandled pandemic have similar effects in the 2022 elections?
We may be about to find out. Dr. Tedros has just declared – reportedly over the objections of a majority of his advisory panel – a new global health emergency involving Monkeypox. If we don’t get back to pandemic responses that actually work, we may be doomed not only to more CCP-style lockdowns and passports, but more stolen elections.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden said yesterday that he has cancer. The White House responded that what he meant to say was that he had skin cancer in the past. Neither is acknowledging that the President appears today to have rapidly accelerating, and debilitating, dementia.
We cannot safely navigate the growing dangers worldwide with our present leadership and its policies. We must move now to put a new, competent and patriotic team in place that will actually protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
The prospect of the seriously inadequate Kamala Harris becoming president necessitates the appointment and confirmation ASAP of a new, non-partisan vice president. The times require that it be someone with a robust national security background who will promise not to run in 2024 – ideally, a highly accomplished and regarded senior retired military officer like General Jack Keane.
This is Frank Gaffney.
President Biden is reportedly so frustrated that Senator Joe Manchin has stymied his so-called “climate change agenda” that he is prepared to declare a state of emergency to implement it without congressional action.
Exactly what that would mean is unclear. Presumably, sweeping measures will be mandated because President Biden insists, “the science is settled” and greenhouse gas emissions must be curbed. Expect mandates for further reductions in the use of fossil fuels.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is already proposing to penalize publicly traded companies for failing to get with the Green New Deal program.
But wait. Two of America’s most eminent scientists rebutted the SEC declaring, “There is no climate-related risk caused by fossil fuels and carbon dioxide” and that the adoption of the Commission’s proposed rule would cause “disastrous consequences for people worldwide.”
Say “No” to Joe.
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Roger Robinson helped Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviet Union, the last totalitarian Communist regime that threatened to destroy America. Central to that accomplishment was a comprehensive effort to cut off the Kremlin’s cash flow from Western sources.
Today, Mr. Robinson is warning about what he says may be “the largest financial scandal in world history.” That would be the underwriting from Wall Street that’s propping up an even greater threat: the Chinese Communist Party. He estimates between $3-6 trillion has been invested to date by U.S. sources in companies owned or controlled by the CCP.
What’s most scandalous is that, thanks to financiers like BlackRock’s Larry Fink, those sources include scores of millions of mostly unwitting American investors, among them now U.S. government and military personnel.
Join a webinar today at PresentDangerChina.org to learn how this enemy can be financially defeated, too.
This is Frank Gaffney.
All other things being equal, we now know the answer to Benjamin Franklin’s famous admonition about whether we’ll be able to “keep” our constitutional republic.
New polling data suggests that, unless something dramatic changes among a generation or two of younger Americans, in due course, we will surrender our sovereignty, freedoms and country to new management.
According to a Heartland Institute-Rasmussen survey, a majority of us in the 19-39 age cohort want the United Nations to be responsible for safeguarding our civil rights.
That would be the end of the Constitution bequeathed to us by Franklin and the other Founders.
Instead of individuals we elect and who are, therefore, supposed to be accountable to us, we would be ruled by foreigners – most of whom, like the Chinese Communist Party, hate freedom.
Are you willing to let that happen to America?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Joe Biden is promoting Palestinian aspirations with symbolic gestures, bad precedents and squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on the illegitimate Mahmoud Abbas and the terrorists of Hamas. As it happens, both are committed to the destruction of Israel, and inciting violence against it.
The President would, nonetheless, have us believe that he is committed to the Jewish State’s security. To that end, we’re told he’s also encouraging the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
In fact, Team Biden’s preoccupation with resuming the previous, failed U.S. policy of treating the Palestinians as arbiters of whether the Saudis and others can make peace with the Israelis is calculated to undermine the Abraham Accords and otherwise impede progress on that front – not advance it.
Biden’s Mideast agenda is rewarding America’s enemies and harming its friends – a formula for more enemies and fewer friends. This is Frank Gaffney
The U.S. and Israeli governments declared for the umpteenth time today that Iran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. It ain’t necessarily so.
Israel’s Interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid is a leftist up for election. He’s happy to have a paper pretext not to act in the only way that will, at this point, prevent the mullahs from getting The Bomb at any time – namely, a full-scale assault on their nuclear weapons program.
President Biden is determined to prevent such an attack by Israel as his administration begs the Iranians to sign another bogus agreement forswearing taking that step.
The President’s promises to use all instruments of American power to prevent it may give unfounded hope to Israelis and others in the mullahs’ crosshairs. But its only practical effect will be to run out the clock on the preemption option.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Heartbreaking video from inside Uvalde elementary school documenting the protracted failure of police to stop the slaughter underway there is prompting afresh disbelief and fury at the officers involved. What on earth were they thinking?
After weeks of conflicting official descriptions of what went down, this video further undermines public confidence in law enforcement. And those most critical of its conduct, especially towards minorities, are emboldened to renew and generalize their condemnations and efforts to demean and, if possible, defund the police.
Given all that, it seems likely what the Uvalde cops were thinking was: If they took unauthorized initiative to stop the shooter, their risk-averse chain of command would throw them to the wolves.
It’s not an excuse, just a possible explanation. And one that surely is operating elsewhere at a time when we need robust policing more than ever.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Last night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson delivered a searing indictment of Joe Biden and his presidency. He makes a compelling case that our Commander-in-Chief is deeply and perilously compromised by the Chinese Communist Party.
That’s translated into Biden’s material help to our mortal enemy in achieving its strategic objective of destroying the United States and ruling the world. For example: the President has stopped counter-intelligence operations against China’s espionage; ended tariffs on its imports; arrested two Americans the CCP has sanctioned by name – Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon; and wrecked our energy sector.
In fact, Tucker argued, as we have, that “Whatever helps the Chinese government, Biden has dutifully done.” Ditto whatever hurts America.
We’ll explore all this and more at 1 p.m. ET today in the first of a new webinar series entitled “USA Betrayed.” Join us at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Joe Biden takes his wrecking operation to the Mideast this week. Wonder what harm he can do? Think Afghanistan on steroids.
My colleague, David Wurmser, has just published a brilliant analysis of the dangers arising from Biden’s diminishing of Arab perceptions of the United States as the “strong horse.”
Dr. Wurmser correctly argues that the Israelis must do whatever they can to fill the vacuum thus created.
Instead, they are submitting to Biden, even giving him their country’s highest award. Not since Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize has a distinction been less deserved.
No good can come from Biden’s three priorities: protecting Iran from Israeli preemption; resuscitating Palestinian ambitions; and encouraging Saudi oil production, not ours.
Peace through strength – Israeli, if not American – is the only hope of preventing such truly reckless policies from resulting in the next horrific regional war.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Joe Biden’s policies at home and abroad have two things in common: They are bad for America and serve the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. It now appears that’s not just two sides of the same coin, but of twenty pieces of silver.
For example, we have recently learned that President Biden has not only sold Communist China a million barrels of precious oil from reserves meant to protect our national security. The purchasing conglomerate, Sinopec, is one in which the President’s notorious son, Hunter, has had a financial interest – from which Joe himself may have benefited, as well.
Joe Biden is not simply grifting, something he appears to have engaged in throughout his time in government. He is doing so to the benefit of our mortal enemy and the grave detriment of our nation and its honor. He must go.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Barack Obama once outrageously diminished his office and our nation by bowing when he greeted the Saudi king. Joe Biden is widely expected shortly to repeat such submissiveness – figuratively, if not literally – when he pleads with the Kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, for help in lowering oil prices.
Such appalling conduct would be relatively robust, however, compared with the flat-out prostration the U.S. administration is currently doing before the Chinese Communists. Call it “the Biden kow-tow.”
Amidst escalating threats of war emanating from Beijing, Team Biden has been weakening our military, relaxing tariffs on PRC imports and insisting that the Chinese Communist Party is a “competitor,” not an enemy. It has even sold the CCP oil from our hedge against national security-imperiling disruptions in energy supplies: America’s strategic petroleum reserve.
Such appeasement invites not only contempt, but conflict.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
For years, we have been warning about the inevitable consequences of presidents of both parties since Ronald Reagan neglecting Latin America. Mostly, it was benign neglect. But sometimes it was actually malign.
Either way, it was predictable – and predicted – that the vacuum of power thus created would be filled by those hostile to our country and interests. In the past year alone, Peru, Chile and Colombia have voted in Communist regimes, joining those that have already devastated places like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Brazil may be next.
The principal beneficiaries of these tectonic shifts are our enemies: China, Russia and Iran. They are, among other ominous things, now preparing to participate next month in military exercises in Venezuela and pre-positioning weapons, some of which will almost certainly prove threatening to us.
We can no longer ignore the gathering storm in our hemisphere.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
There’s a Chinese Communist product that is as addictive as its fentanyl, and potentially far more deadly. The CCP’s TikTok app has deeply penetrated the youth culture here. And, according to, among others, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, it’s a threat to the national security.
The idea that a platform for sharing silly dance videos could be so dangerous is unimaginable to most of the kids hooked on it. Yet, the Chinese Communists’ ability to exploit immense amounts of personal data about its users puts them at risk of manipulation, compromise or worse.
Incredibly, the U.S. military has decided to use the TikTok app to help address its serious recruiting shortfalls. What could possibly go wrong?
The Chinese Communists would never allow us to operate a comparable app in their country. And we shouldn’t let them do it here.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Twenty-five years ago today, I was in Hong Kong to witness the surrender of that outpost of the Free World to the Chinese Communist Party. Official festivities couldn’t conceal the palpable sense of abandonment, and foreboding.
Hong Kongers intuitively knew the Chinese Communists would crush the freedoms they had enjoyed as a British territory. They were promised that wouldn’t happen for fifty years, which would be bad enough. Far worse is what occurred.
The CCP used its coronavirus and oppressive legislation to end the huge demonstrations by which the people of Hong Kong resisted China’s tyranny. Their leaders are in prison; free media is dead; and all vestiges of a supposedly liberty-tolerant “second system” have been forcibly eliminated.
Hong Kong is no more, reduced to an ominous foretaste of what the Chinese Communist Party wants to do to the rest of us.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
When you get a problematic diagnosis of a problem – particularly, one with potential life-and-death repercussions, it’s a good idea to get a second opinion. Rarely has that been more true than with respect to the Chinese Communist Party’s unrestricted warfare against America.
Fortunately, a team of distinguished national security professionals sponsored by our Center for Security Policy is today disputing the U.S. government’s party-line on the virus that triggered the COVID-19 pandemic.
This “Team B III” found that this coronavirus likely came from a Chinese biological weapons laboratory and the CCP’s deliberate efforts to spread it outside China mean the pandemic was a biological attack. As such, it fits the PRC’s longstanding doctrine, plans and growing capabilities for such asymmetric, and unrestricted, warfare against us.
Catch the Team’s important webinar at 1:00 p.m. ET today by registering at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Sweden and Finland have just been admitted to NATO, bringing fresh forces and capabilities to bear at a critical moment. And Tom Cruise is uplifting millions of patriotic Americans and others still rooting for our country with his Top Gun sequel, “Maverick.”
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the U.S. military that is the backbone of the NATO alliance and that is currently being portrayed so evocatively by Hollywood is in serious trouble.
Leading indicators are the dramatic shortfalls in recruitment being experienced at the moment by most of the armed services. Factors like Biden’s Afghan debacle, inflation, personal pronouns, the priority given to Critical Race indoctrination and ideological purges and forcing out healthy warriors unwilling to take COVID vaccines are destroying readiness, confidence in the uniformed leadership and eligible candidates’ willingness to serve.
Such unforced errors imperil America.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
As President Biden confers with other leaders this week, the disconnects between his stewardship of our security and steps being taken by our adversaries should be top of mind. Instead, they’re getting scarcely any attention – especially here at home.
Take for example, Biden’s squandering of our strategic petroleum reserves. In a bid to mitigate his policies’ disastrous inflation of energy prices, the President has been selling off a million barrels a day, bringing the reserves to their lowest levels since 1987.
Meanwhile, Communist China has been aggressively building up its stocks of not only oil – including Russian imports, but uranium, rare earth minerals, fertilizers and food. Obviously, doing so reduces the availability of such commodities to others. In stark contrast to Biden’s profligacy, moreover, they are consistent with the CCP’s preparations for kinetic war – and could prove decisive in our defeat.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met virtually last week in what amounted to an ominous throw-down to the United States and its dollar’s privileged status as the world’s reserve currency.
The Russians and Chinese have been trying for some time to supplant the dollar, especially following the financial punishment meted out to Russia’s ruble and economy following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, they appear to have the buy-in of not only South Africa for a “BRICS” basket of currencies, but two putative American allies: Brazil and India.
It remains to be seen how fast this alternative to the dollar will materialize and with what effect. But the present impetus behind it makes more likely a scenario we should dread – when we can no longer sustain profligate spending and economic dominance by simply printing more money.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
It’s no secret that domestic terrorists are intent on inflicting violent harm in our country. It turns out, though, they’re not the white supremacists we’re incessantly told are the greatest threat.
Instead, they are anarchists and Marxists who have seized on the impending Supreme Court ruling on abortion as a pretext to inflict a “Summer of Rage” that could make that of 2020 pale by comparison.
It remains to be seen whether groups like “Jane’s Revenge” will be joined by unknown numbers of others – including possibly military-age men who have entered this country illegally since Joe Biden opened our southern border and admitted tens of thousands more from Afghanistan.
What we do know now is that, if our security agencies remain focused on phony threats conjured up proponents of Critical Race Theory, instead of real ones, our peril will be enormous.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Just as the danger posed by the Chinese Communist Party is reaching unprecedented heights, the Biden State Department has chosen an “Old Friend” of China to manage the bilateral relationship. Evidently, Hunter Biden wasn’t available.
Instead, Tom Donilon got the gig. As Barack Obama’s national security advisor, he presided over the surrender of the South China Sea to Beijing. These days, he runs an investment institute for Larry Fink’s financial management firm, BlackRock – which the CCP recently rewarded for its service to China with the first wholly foreign-owned mutual fund business there.
Such service by BlackRock has included playing a leading role in transferring $3-6 trillion in U.S. investments to CCP front companies. It also recently helped such companies gain access to the retirement savings of federal employees and military personnel.
The times demand American patriots in charge, not China’s Old Friends.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
There may be a worse time for Joe Biden to pay a visit to the Middle East, but it is hard to think of one. The government of Israel has just fallen, its parliament disbanded and the fifth round of elections in three years called for October.
The Biden team has been emboldening the Palestinians to engage in renewed violence. Jordan’s kingdom is hanging by a thread. And the likelihood of conflict with Iran seems to be growing by the moment.
There is literally no chance that President Biden’s presence will improve matters. His team has fostered regional instability by subverting Israel, appeasing Iran’s mullahs and simultaneously undermining Saudi Arabia and asking it to increase oil production. China and Russia are making regional inroads at our expense.
It’s in the vital interests of the United States for Joe Biden to stay home.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The election of an erstwhile narco-terrorist leader to be Colombia’s next president moves Latin America to the brink of being entirely run by this country’s enemies. With the fall of Peru and Chile to Communists last year and the prospect that Brazil’s electorate may soon return to power its former radical leader, Lula, an enduring ascendancy of indigenous Marxists seems assured.
Worse yet, external forces are at work there, as well. The Chinese Communists and their Russian and Iranian allies are aggressively expanding influence operations, infrastructure build-outs and basing arrangements that will strengthen their footholds in the Western Hemisphere under the banner of today’s Communist Internationale, known as the Forum of Sao Paolo. No good can come of all this for U.S. commercial or strategic interests – or the flow of still more illegal aliens fleeing leftist predations.
Paging President Monroe.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Team Biden’s appalling surrender of Afghanistan last year shocked the world. Many were similarly astonished when the U.S. administration effectively encouraged Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. There can be no surprise about Biden’s next – and most dangerous – failure to deter aggression, namely the war the Chinese Communist Party is poised to launch against Taiwan.
After all, a powerful webinar sponsored yesterday by the Committee on the Present Danger: China served notice that the CCP is actively preparing for such a conflict. It has amassed the capabilities to conduct one decisively in the absence of effective countermeasures. And, all other things being equal, U.S. assets, personnel and territory will likely be targeted.
We may still be able to deter such a world-changing disaster. But we must do so at once, not persist in Biden behavior that instead invites it. Learn more at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Last month, the World Health Organization sought with the help of the Biden administration to secure sweeping new powers to dictate what constitute public health emergencies and how they will be addressed.
That gambit was blocked by an unexpected surge of opposition from nations not as willing to surrender their sovereignty to an unaccountable supranational organization as is Team Biden.
The WHO’s complete submission to the Chinese Communist Party line in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic may have been a factor. As its Director-General renews his bid for expanded powers, he is distancing himself a bit from Beijing –notably, by expressing a willingness to consider afresh whether the Covid virus actually did come from a Chinese bioweapons laboratory.
Watch this space as our Center for Security Policy has a major new study on that subject coming out next week.
This is Frank Gaffney
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
On Monday, Communist China ratcheted up yet again its territorial claims to the waters, airspace and resources of the Western Pacific. Beijing declared that it “has sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait,” the 90-mile-wide stretch that separates Taiwan’s island from the Chinese mainland.
The United States and Taiwanese governments have, properly, rejected this assertion, affirming that the Strait is, instead, an international waterway and declaring an intention to continue to exercise freedom of navigation there.
Unfortunately, in the Taiwan Strait as elsewhere, the Chinese Communist Party is inexorably creating facts on the ground – or, at sea – that will enable the People’s Liberation Army not just to enforce its requirements for permission to transit or otherwise utilize contested areas. They are preparing for war. We must, therefore, be about deterring and, if necessary, defeating the future aggression being telegraphed.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
“Do something” is not generally a prescription for considered and appropriate action in an emergency. That’s especially true when the proposed options require the compromise of Americans’ constitutional rights.
A gaggle of Republican Senators have just agreed with Democratic counterparts that the something they are prepared to do in response to recent mass shootings is adopt a national “Red Flag” law. As a result, in the name of preventing deplorable, but random, acts of “gun violence,” every American could be one anonymous denunciation away from having their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms eliminated.
If this initiative becomes law, it will likely be viewed by Republican voters as the “White Flag” initiative, an abject – and profoundly alienating – monoparty surrender to gun-grabbing Marxists at a moment when our arms are needed more than ever to safeguard all our liberties.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Last week, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Wei Fenghe, held an “emergency meeting” in Singapore. Evidently, it went pretty much as have other conversations between senior Biden officials like Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, which is to say the Americans were rhetorically mauled by their truculent interlocutors.
The problem wasn’t simply that Defense Minister Wei declared that his country won’t hesitate to go to war over Taiwan. The truth, evidently unacknowledged by either minister, is that China has actually been engaged in “unrestricted warfare” against us for over two decades.
When an enemy makes a point of directly threatening you, it is advisable to prepare for conflict. Unfortunately, Team Biden is, instead, signaling a lack of resolve – and, worse yet, encouraging American investors actually to underwrite the Chinese threat.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The prime-time launch last night by the House Select Committee on January 6th showed that it’s promoting a false narrative of a government-toppling “insurrection,” not pursuing the truth.
After all, the truth is there would have no been penetration of the Capitol had it been on a heightened security status. Instead, somebody directed that it be on a less secure footing than even the normal, day-to-day level.
Who gave that order? Was it the same person who declined President Trump’s authorization to deploy 20,000 National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol?
The further question occurs: Was the reason for such decisions to set the stage for “direct action,” perhaps by FBI informants and operatives and those with whom they were working?
We’re not likely to get answers to these questions from the January 6th Committee, at least until is under new management.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
As a young man, I had the privilege of working for five years for a great Democratic Senator named Henry “Scoop” Jackson. He would not recognize his party today, and probably would not be willing to be associated with its agenda.
Take, for example, the Democrats’ studied silence – at best –towards the threatening behavior of pro-abortion activists towards conservative Supreme Court justices, including making public the location of their homes and unlawfully demonstrating outside them. We learned yesterday of the predictable upshot of that criminal activity: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh was the object of an assassination attempt.
Scoop Jackson would surely lead the way in decrying such behavior, as he did any threat to our national and homeland security. The failure of his counterparts in today’s Senate to do the same implicates them in those threats and disqualifies them from leadership positions.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The Summit of the Americas taking place in Los Angeles this week should be a moment to address a shocking reality: As a result of decades of not-so-benign neglect of the region by the U.S. government, one Latin American nation after another has succumbed to the temptation to vote in Communists or other Marxists in the name of “change.”
Today, the most important nations in our hemisphere – including increasingly our own – are embracing and promoting the radical left agenda of the modern Communist Internationale, doing business as the “Forum of Sao Paolo” under the influence of China, Russia and Iran. Two more, Brazil and Colombia, may enlist this year.
Instead of focusing on climate change, social justice and buying oil from Venezuela, Team Biden should be concentrating on preserving and expanding the freedoms the Forum of Sao Paolo seeks to crush.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Last August, Joe Biden failed to deter the Taliban’s final assault in Afghanistan. In fact, his conduct – and odious orders to the U.S. military to cut-and-run in the middle of the night, leaving $83 billion worth of advanced weaponry behind – not only assured, but effectively invited, the jihadists’ victory there, and whetted their appetite for more elsewhere.
In February, Team Biden once again communicated its unwillingness to impose appreciable costs, this time for a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin responded like the Taliban.
Now, as Communist China prepares for war, the Biden administration is clearing the way for U.S. investors, including federal government employees and military personnel, to put their money in China. It’s also easing Trump-era tariffs – further generating revenues that not only signal our provocative weakness, but actually will help pay for China’s aggression.
Had enough?
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Thirty-three years ago last weekend, the Chinese Communist Party murdered tens of thousands of students and others in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and elsewhere for courageously protesting its abuses, corruption and oppression.
These massacres were vivid reminders that Communists care only about power – acquiring, maintaining and wielding it ruthlessly. They are indifferent to the attendant suffering of their own people. And they certainly won’t hesitate to do the same to others’.
To the everlasting shame of President George H.W. Bush, he responded by sending his National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, to assure the CCP that there would be no punishment for such egregious crimes against humanity. Instead, it would be rewarded for them with more sweetheart business deals and other “engagement” with the West.
The predictable result is today’s China – enriched, empowered and emboldened by us, and now at our throats.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Within hours of the board that oversees the federal government’s $800 billion retirement fund giving the Chinese Communist Party access to its participants’ money, four Biden nominees to that board have signaled that they oppose the practice.
In a letter to Senators holding up their confirmation, the nominees to the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board wrote, “We agree it is unfitting for Americans to invest in companies from China or elsewhere that undermine U.S. national security.” Since that’s what the Chinese Communists are all about, and since every Chinese corporation must do their bidding, none should have access to Thrift Savings Plan funds.
To assure military and civilian government employees won’t unwittingly invest in our enemy, the Senate must not confirm these nominees until all Chinese companies are removed from mutual fund offerings endorsed by the current Thrift Savings Plan board membership.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Another day, another mass casualty shooting. Inevitably, federal legislators will redouble efforts to give the appearance of “doing something” to stop such violence. One idea under consideration is “universal” background checks.
There’s a significant problem that arises from what is, arguably, the most enduring impact of Team Biden’s wrecking operation: namely, the two million-plus illegal aliens it has let into this country that now live in neighborhoods like yours all across it.
Most of them are unaccompanied, military-age males. And, like the vast majority of such uninvited immigrants, we have no idea who they are. You can’t conduct a background check on someone with an unknown background.
So, “universal” – as with the rule of law more generally these days – means only some will have to obey legal restrictions. Unequal justice is a formula for the destruction of what’s left of our constitutional Republic.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
We seem to have dodged a bullet last week at the World Health Assembly. No, it wasn’t the 9-millimeter kind President Biden wants to restrict. Rather, it was one Team Biden aimed at our sovereignty via proposals to let a proxy for the Chinese Communist Party dictate what constitute “public health emergencies of international concern” and what we’ll do about them.
Unfortunately, world-government types are sure to resurface this gambit in the future. Worse yet, the Global Resetters simultaneously meeting in Davos unveiled two new digital mechanisms for imposing their totalitarian ambitions.
As a courageous freedom-fighter named Dr. Naomi Wolf has warned for over two years, such “vaccine passports” will inevitably usher in what the CCP calls a “Social Credit System.”
Her brilliant new book, “The Bodies of Others,” is an instant best-seller – and required reading for American patriots.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Incredibly, at the stroke of midnight tonight, an obscure federal agency will enable the retirement savings of military men and women, past and present, and their civilian counterparts to be invested in companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
Worse yet, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is not going to warn the participants in its Thrift Savings Plan that they are making such investments.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, for starters, in the words of one of America’s most storied warriors, Lieutenant General William “Jerry” Boykin, this action is tantamount to “treacherous sedition.” He and five other influential retired military leaders wrote the Board last week declaring, “The government of the United States should be precluding any underwriting of the CCP’s ominous military build-up and human rights abuses, not legitimating and facilitating them.”
If you agree, say so at NoTSPforCCP.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Memorial Day is dedicated to honoring the sacrifice of those who served and died so that the rest of us might enjoy the blessings of liberty. If the Chinese Communist Party has its way, though, this one might be our last.
That ominous possibility was a takeaway from a webinar last week featuring members of the Committee on the Present Danger: China discussing evidence that the CCP is now actively mobilizing for war. Particularly chilling is a videotape reportedly of a high-level planning session in China’s Guangdong Province indicating Chinese leaders are preparing to attack, not just Taiwan, but apparently us – and plan to do so within months.
Some are questioning the credibility of this video. Others, like Secretary of State Tony Blinken, act like it doesn’t exist. That’s malfeasant, and it will inevitably invite Chinese Communist aggression, to our mortal peril.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Memorial Day is more than just a time to remember the sacrifice of fallen American heroes. It’s a living testament to the essentiality of practicing “Peace through Strength” to prevent needless wars – and to win those we must fight.
Yesterday, Secretary of State Tony Blinken delivered a speech about China antithetical to that time-tested philosophy. He failed even to mention the unrestricted warfare the Chinese Communist Party has waged against us for decades, let alone the growing prospect of its imminent military action.
Instead, Blinken focused on “cooperation” and “competition” – the sort of submissive blather one would expect from the former director of the Penn Biden Center, which received some $54 million in anonymous Chinese donations.
Such pap bespeaks, at best, of what Dr. Bradley Thayer calls “the Fog of Peace.” At worst, it smacks of betrayal of more than Peace through Strength.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The global governance crowd is on a roll in destroying the sovereignty of nations like ours and freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. The Global Resetters and their Chinese Communist allies have recently revealed three initiatives designed to catalyze a New World Order.
First, with the Biden administration's connivance, the World Health Organization is beavering away in Geneva on agreements that will empower its Chinese-appointed, Marxist director-general to dictate public health policies here and elsewhere.
Second, on Tuesday, China’s Alibaba conglomerate announced at Davos that it will produce a “personal carbon footprint tracker” to monitor everyone’s contribution to climate change – and everything else.
Then, yesterday, German-owned T-Mobile boasted at the World Economic Forum that the World Health Organization has selected it to provide universal Global Digital Health Passports, yet another building-block for insinuating worldwide China’s totalitarian Social Credit System.
God help us.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The convergence of the Communist and capitalist wellsprings of the new world order – and its ominous implications for Americans and others who love freedom – was on display in Davos, Switzerland yesterday.
At the globalist World Economic Forum, the Chinese Communist Party’s tech giant, Alibaba, unveiled the next big thing in the planet’s inexorable march to the Digital Gulag. It’s called a “personal carbon footprint tracker.”
Evidently, we need not be concerned that Alibaba is a key enabler of the CCP’s totalitarian surveillance state and its uber- Orwellian “Social Credit System.” That’s because, while this tracker will monitor your whereabouts, travel, personal consumption and behavior – offering you inducements to do “the right thing ” – there’s no reason to worry that all of that data will be collected and monitored by Communist China because, you see, it’s “green.”
And you will like being green.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
As Team Biden continues to flail publicly about what, if anything, it will do if the Chinese Communist Party attacks Taiwan, the CCP’s menace is becoming ever clearer.
A leaked video of a top secret meeting on May 14th shows leaders in Guangdong Province planning the transition from “normal to war.” And hacked Chinese police data confirms the CCP’s oppression and genocide of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities.
Such revelations should bring to a screeching halt efforts to get U.S. military personnel and other government employees to invest their retirement savings in Communist Chinese companies. But will it? It’s still possible to prevent the Thrift Savings Plan from inflicting a disaster on investors and a threat to our national security.
Urge your representatives to stop what amounts to aiding and abetting the enemy on the eve of war at NoTSPforCCP.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
President Biden today explicitly declared that the United States would defend Taiwan in the event it is attacked by Communist China. As has happened before, however, the White House promptly walked back that statement, reestablishing the sort of official “strategic ambiguity” that at this point can only invite such Chinese aggression.
An even further inducement to the Chinese Communist Party’s belligerence is a move afoot in Washington and on Wall Street that would result in U.S. military personnel and other federal government employees helping pay for it. The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is holding a public meeting tomorrow morning and – all other things being equal – it is expected to greenlight the investment of their Thrift Savings Plan accounts in mutual funds that will include CCP companies, even sanctioned ones.
Join us in opposing such underwriting of our mortal enemy at NoTSPforCCP.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Next week, the Biden administration intends to reward Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, for arguably the most profoundly wrong – and deadly – public health misdiagnosis ever.
Team Biden wants the man who affirmed and enforced Chinese Communist Party lies about the Covid-19 pandemic it unleashed on the planet to be authorized to dictate what’s a “public health emergency of international concern” – and what affected nations must do in response.
Actually, history’s greatest public health emergency is Communist China’s illegal biological warfare program that spawned this pandemic. An avowed Marxist like Tedros, who helped foist the further, needless destruction of the so-called “China Model” of lockdowns, vaccine mandates and “passports” on the rest of us, should be prosecuted for his role in China’s present global genocide, not empowered to do worse in the future.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
As we assess the immense damage being done to America’s international prestige and national security interests by Joe Biden’s wrecking operation, some negative consequences are self-evident. In short, this country’s enemies – notably, Communist China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and their Marxist allies in our own hemisphere – are emboldened and becoming more dangerous.
Less obvious, but no less problematic, has been the toll arising as allies and other partners adjust to the new reality of an irresolute, weakened and unreliable United States. Some have simply cut deals with adversaries from whom we used to offer protection. Others are actively considering how best to secure a nuclear deterrent of their own in the face of yawning uncertainties about the condition and sufficiency of ours.
Even NATO’s putative solidarity over Ukraine and possible further expansion are imperiled by Russia’s continued aggression and Turkey’s veto.
Paging “Pax Americana.”
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Joe Biden and his partisans clearly think the American people are stupid. They relentlessly serve up patent untruths, then accuse their critics of engaging in “Big Lies.”
Take the President’s declaration in Buffalo yesterday that, “…Angry, alienated, lost, and isolated individuals [are radicalized] into falsely believing that they will be replaced…by the ‘other’ — by people who don’t look like them.” Actually, Americans correctly regard the Biden team’s “open border” policy as realigning the electorate, to make it more reliably Democratic.
With fraud-prone mail-in ballots and locales like New York now giving non-citizens the right to vote within 30 days of getting there, the addition of millions of illegal aliens could offset the rising revulsion legal voters feel about Biden’s appalling record.
Calling people racists for objecting to such electoral skullduggery is not simply wrong. These deflections are incendiary and contemptible.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
In the Navy, this moment would require klaxons to sound “General Quarters” in response to an emergency situation requiring all hands on deck. A webinar yesterday confirmed that America’s sovereignty is in imminent jeopardy, not because of enemy action, but at the hands of the Biden administration.
Specialists in medicine, human rights, diplomacy and investigative journalism and two former legislators told our Stop Vaccine Passports Task Force that – unless dramatic action is promptly taken – Team Biden will offer unvetted amendments giving an unaccountable, and deeply compromised, international bureaucrat authority over U.S. public health crises. What could possibly go wrong?
Video of the webinar will be available shortly at StopVaxPassports.org. As there isn’t a moment to waste, I urge you to go there today to send a personal message to your elected representatives telling them to stop the surrender of our sovereignty NOW.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is arguably the most powerful, wholly unaccountable person on earth. He’s using his firm’s trillions of dollars under management to impose his radical agenda on American businesses and investors.
A shocking webinar revealed that Fink is leading a renewed effort to get our military and other government employees unwittingly to invest their retirement savings in companies owned or controlled by our mortal enemy: the Chinese Communist Party.
The effect will be: endangering their investments in potentially fraudulent Chinese firms; enabling the CCP to become a more dangerous threat; and creating potentially security-compromising conflicts of interests for those in uniform and civilian federal workers.
This arrangement may further enrich Larry Fink and others prepared to betray our country on Wall Street. But it must not be legitimated and instituted by our government’s Thrift Savings Plan.
Watch the webinar at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Xavier Becerra is the 25th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He may effectively be the last. After all, if an official delegation he’s leading to the upcoming World Health Assembly in Geneva succeeds, the Biden administration will contract out America’s public health policy to the Chinese Communist Party.
Team Biden wants the Director-General of the World Health Organization henceforth to determine whether there are “public health emergencies of international concern” in this country and, if so, what we are going to do about them.
The Communist Chinese picked the incumbent, who unfailingly does their bidding. If you like the “China Model” of lockdowns, vaccine mandates and digital health passports, you’ll love Bacerra’s successor.
If not, join us at StopVaxPassports.org in telling your elected representatives to end this insane voluntary surrender of our national sovereignty and security.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Like a boa constrictor crushing the last vestiges of life from its prey, the Chinese Communist Party has intensified this week its merciless snuffing of freedom in Hong Kong. On Sunday, its hand-picked thug named John Lee won an uncontested race with ninety-nine percent of the votes cast by 1500 hand-picked CCP supporters.
Almost immediately, a new roundup of prominent freedom-fighters began with the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen and several others suspected of violating Beijing’s odious “national security law.” They could face life-imprisonment when, not if, the rigged judicial system finds them guilty as charged.
Such mistreatment of Hong Kong’s former archbishop validates his courageous criticism of both Communist China’s totalitarian regime and the Pope it reportedly paid handsomely to sell out Catholics in China. Let’s pray for these and all Xi Jinping’s other victims – current and prospective, which includes us.
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Weeks before the Chinese Communist Party unleashed the Covid-19 pandemic, its representatives participated in “Event 201,” a table-top exercise organized by, among others, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Its stated purpose was to see how a coronavirus pandemic could be used to strengthen world government.
A senior Biden administration official named Loyce Pace happens to be a graduate of the Bloomberg School. She is also the author of 13 amendments that would transform the head of the World Health Organization into the global arbiter of what constitutes public health emergencies and how they will be addressed. Not our government, but CCP-shill Tedros Ghebreyesus.
Former Representative Michele Bachmann says we need Republicans in Congress to conduct the equivalent of a general strike – no quorums, no legislation – until Ms. Pace’s appalling surrender of our national sovereignty is formally repudiated.
Do it now.
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Congress is urgently considering legislation to provide protection to Supreme Court justices’ family members. The fact that they need physical security is an indictment not only of the mobs now driving them from their homes. It is a symptom of the Biden administration’s embrace, yet again, of unequal justice under law.
Team Biden’s effective encouragement of its radical and even violent leftist allies’ intimidation – and worse, contrasts sharply with its harsh treatment of political opponents smeared as “domestic terrorists.” In practice, giving a pass to those threatening members of the Supreme Court effectively greenlights not only efforts to pack it, but to purge it.
While robustly protecting justices and their families is, of course, necessary, it is not sufficient. President Biden and his subordinates must make clear immediately that anyone endangering them will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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The across-the-board wrecking operation that Joe Biden has unleashed on America has two common denominators: Every one of his policies is harmful to our country. And every one of them seems to benefit the Chinese Communist Party.
Take, for example, amendments Team Biden has proposed to give the CCP-controlled World Health Organization sweeping new powers at the expense of our national sovereignty and independence. Even absent a renewed pandemic, the WHO will be able to dictate to the world, not just public health policies, but even whether travel and trade restrictions may be imposed.
Welcome to the China Model, brought to you by the people who inflicted on us Covid-19, lockdowns and vaccine passports.
International voting currently expected to approve Biden’s latest betrayal of our country will occur in two weeks. Will anyone challenge – let alone effectively oppose – it?
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Nina Jankowicz has been plucked from obscurity to be the famous person she yearned in song to become. In her new role as arbiter of what is unacceptable “mis- and disinformation,” she has become the poster girl of the now-intensifying Marxist Revolution in America.
Tucker Carlson observed last night that Ms. Jankowicz’s past antics – notably, her sometimes salacious and deeply partisan renderings of popular music, her screeds inveighing against ideological opponents and, yes, her own actual and absurd disinformation – obscure, like Joe Biden’s affable senility, serious “Stalinist” tendencies.
What can possibly go wrong with having such a person given free rein in a law enforcement capacity to go after political opponents – even school board-criticizing moms now officially called potential “domestic terrorists” – simply because she deems their exercise of First Amendment rights to be impermissible?
The short answer is “plenty.”
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February has precipitated an impressive, and these days rare, degree of bipartisan support here for the people of Ukraine, translating into billions in aid and vast arms transfers to the beleaguered defenders.
Despite punishing sanctions and military reverses, however, Putin appears determined to continue his murderous aggression. Indeed, he threatens to escalate the conflict further and punish those assisting Ukraine, including with nuclear weapons.
As the war in Ukraine’s actual and potential costs continue to grow with President Biden seeking another $33 billion, hard questions about America’s role there must be urgently addressed.
In the course of a very timely webinar at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time today, our Center for Security Policy will assess “The Case for Ukraine” with two prominent Ukrainian-American leaders and a former senior Kremlin official. Join us at SecureFreedom.org.
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Bill Gates is one of the creepiest guys on the planet. His involvement, for example, with sovereignty-crushing global governance, transhumanism, eugenics, nanochip-transfusing vaccines and Epstein Island, would cause most of us to regard him as a kook, if not a pariah, were he not one of the world’s richest men.
Unfortunately, Gates’ immense wealth gives him the stroke to impose his agenda on the rest of us. That makes particularly worrying his latest calls for enormously strengthening the Chinese-controlled World Health Organization. Especially so as the Biden administration is quietly working to give the WHO the ability to override national health policy decisions during future pandemics.
This and other aspects of the “Digital Gulag” being constructed by the likes of Bill Gates, Team Biden and the Chinese Communists must be resisted. View our terrific webinar on why at PresentDangerChina.org.
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The leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion signaling the majority’s intention to overturn Roe vs. Wade is an ominous indication of what may be in store for the country over the next six months. Expect actions aimed at preventing such a decision from being finalized and/or influencing this fall’s elections.
They might include institutional assaults like ending the Senate filibuster to enact pro-abortion legislation and perhaps pack the Supreme Court.
Alternatively, there may be physical threats against its justices. Or perhaps even a renewed “color revolution” laying waste to American cities like the so-called “Summer of Love” two years ago.
The latter require an end to the Biden administration’s politicization and weaponization of U.S. national and homeland security agencies against its partisan foes. Real threats to freedom must be countered, not deflections like “white supremacists,” “insurrectionists” and “disinformation.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned up Saturday in the capital of Ukraine effusively declaring, “Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.”
Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi has been far less forthcoming with respect to a matter closer to home. As Mark Levin pointed out during his Fox News program last night, she has not shared her insights into what actually happened on January 6, 2021.
The select committee Ms. Pelosi created – ostensibly to establish what occurred – cannot possibly accurately do that unless it hears from the Speaker, under oath, about what she knew that day regarding the threat to the Capitol and when, and why she lowered, rather than heightened security for the congressional complex.
Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to Vladimir Putin channeling Joseph Stalin would be more convincing if she’d ensure her inquiry is not just a show-trial.
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The man enabling millions to immigrate here illegally just unveiled another, mortal threat to our country. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that his department is establishing an Orwellian Ministry of Truth called the Disinformation Governance Board.
It’s not hard to connect the dots on how such an effort to restrict speech will tie into the rest of the Marxist revolutionary wrecking operation the Biden administration is mounting. A new “Digital Gulag” is being constructed in which vaccine passports repackaged as SMART health cards will provide infrastructure for the surveillance, data weaponization and control mechanisms the Chinese Communists call the “Social Credit System.” It will be used to track and punish those deemed guilty of thought crimes called “disinformation.”
Learn what we can do about this at our “Digital Gulag” webinar on Monday at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Register at StopVaxPassports.org.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will resume today on Capitol Hill the role he played yesterday as a human piñata pummeled by critics on both sides of the aisle frantic about the wrecking operation that passes for the Biden administration’s immigration policy.
Its dismantling of so-called “Title 42” will soon see 18,000 aliens illegally entering our country every day. In response to that prospect, Secretary Mayorkas blithely claimed, “We are preparing. We are implementing our plans. We are intensifying our efforts.” Actually, the plan is nothing more than to ensconce those invaders across our country as quickly as possible.
If congressional Republicans gain a majority in November, it will be substantially due to the immense harm being done to public health, public safety and the national security by the Biden-Mayorkas team. They deserve to be impeached for it – and surely will be.
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In October 2019, a group of globalists and U.S. and Chinese officials conducted an ominous tabletop exercise called “Event 201.” Among other things, it modeled how a coronavirus pandemic could be used to strengthen world government.
Within weeks, the CCP unleashed such a pandemic. As predicted by the Event 201 team, the World Health Organization assumed a prominent role in the response. We soon learned, however, that it was basically a shill for Communist China and its “model” of totalitarian mask mandates, lockdowns and inadequately tested vaccines.
The Biden administration nonetheless seems intent on greatly increasing the power of the World Health Organization to dictate responses to future pandemics. On May 22nd, votes are expected that would subordinate our national sovereignty and decision-making to the dictates of the WHO without the approval of the U.S. Senate.
Will we let that happen?
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Last week, former President Barack Obama declared that government needs to start regulating free speech on social media platforms because their “content management” efforts are failing to keep rhetorical “raw sewage out of the public square.”
This week, billionaire Elon Musk bought one of the most influential of such platforms, Twitter, with the pledge to restore free speech – an apparent repudiation of what is not so much about managing content as it is the suppression of information and opinion politically intolerable to radical leftists like Obama.
Time will tell whether these were coincidental developments or, for that matter, whether Mr. Musk will really enable freedom of expression on Twitter. What is clear already is that the fight for that fundamental liberty has never been more necessary – and the emergence of a formidable man professing to be its champion more welcome.
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The man who promised to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” is back at it. In an address at Stanford University last week, former President Barack Obama called for the government to regulate free speech.
Despite describing himself as “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist,” Mr. Obama outlined an approach whereby private sector social media’s own efforts at what he euphemistically called “content management” would be regulated by governmental authorities so as to control the dissemination of “disinformation.”
It’s hard to overstate the menacing implications of such an arrangement for our constitutional republic. Obama characterized the exercise of free expression by a domestic political opponent as “flood[ing] the public square with…raw sewage.” Such an impetus for censorship is not a characteristic of a First Amendment absolutist, but someone absolutely determined to silence speech of which he does not approve.
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“Have you eaten lately?” is a Chinese greeting rooted in centuries of famine, particularly under the Communist Party’s misrule. It may soon become something Americans ask one another, too.
After all, world food shortages are on the rise, aggravated by serious disruptions of both Russian and Ukrainian wheat exports induced by Putin’s invasion.
Shortfalls in imports of the ingredients needed to fertilize America’s farmland are examples of the folly of relying on foreign supply chains.
China has been hoarding, accumulating huge wheat and corn stockpiles. It has also been buying up large quantities of U.S. farmland and food processing plants here.
Ominously, there have lately been a spate of as-yet-unexplained fires and other “accidents” reported at 12 of such plants.
One thing seems certain already: All these problems can add up to acute food insecurity for millions of us.
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An online dictionary defines the term “grooming” as “when a sexual or other kind of predator sets the stage for abusing another.”
Such a definition certainly applies to the gangs of Pakistani immigrants in the United Kingdom and Jeffrey Epstein who “groomed” and sexually abused underage girls.
Notwithstanding a ludicrous claim by a Republican political operative named Matthew Dowd that, “If Jesus Christ was alive today, he would be called a groomer,” such a charge is not only deeply offensive to the world’s Christians, it is utterly unwarranted.
Retired Navy Captain James Fanell, however, has coined a new and very apt application of the term when he described as “CCP groomers” prominent Americans who are setting the stage for the Chinese Communist Party to abuse all of us by obscuring – and enabling – its true, predatory and genocidal designs against our country.
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Kamala Harris yesterday added outer space to the portfolios in which she has demonstrated appallingly poor judgment and undermined America’s national security. She effectively declared the Biden administration would unilaterally disarm in the face of demonstrated – and very dangerous – Chinese and Russian anti-satellite capabilities.
This initiative exemplifies the sort of naivete – if not actual subversiveness – of leftists like Biden and Harris and their radical arms controller allies. The Veep asserted that our refusal to test missiles from the earth to attack objects in space would foster new norms for responsible behavior in space.
Actually, such unilateral restraint will not prevent debris fields in space or make it safe for civilian exploration and other uses. Instead, it will embolden our enemies by locking in their advantages aimed at militarily controlling the High Frontier, in furtherance of their ambitions to dominate our planet below.
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Yesterday marked the start of Holy Week in Ukraine. It may be the last on earth for large numbers of Ukrainian civilians Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will try to murder in the days ahead.
Whether that happens could depend in part on us. Putin clearly believes he can use with impunity missiles, aircraft, a new armored offensive and perhaps chemical or even tactical nuclear weapons to reduce virtually every Ukrainian city to the uninhabitable rubble that is what’s left of the southern port of Mariupol.
In addition to robust sanctions, expedited transfers of urgently needed weapons, expressions of solidarity and, of course, prayers in support of Ukraine, American leadership is urgently required to change Putin’s calculation. Start by establishing that nations still doing business with him will be regarded as not just tolerant of his genocide there, but as accomplices to it.
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The plot sounds like something plucked from a spy thriller. Two operatives claiming to be U.S. security personnel, but suspected of ties with foreign enemies, were recently arrested. They had stashed a small arsenal in a luxury apartment near the U.S. Capitol from which they were cultivating relationships with White House Secret Service personnel.
Who Haidar Ali and Arian Taherzadeh are working for is unclear at the moment. But they may be part of an Iranian plot to exact revenge for the liquidation of the mullahs’ top terrorist, Qassem Soleimani. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is among those reportedly being targeted for assassination.
Incredibly, a magistrate named Michael Harvey rejected prosecutors’ request to jail these suspects, instead releasing them to home detention. Since an inside tip foreshortened the investigation into their operation, we cannot fully assess the danger of doing so.
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Of all Joe Biden’s wrecking operations, the one that may do the most enduring damage is his destruction of our southern border. Since he became president, 3 million illegal aliens have gained access to our country, the largesse of its social safety net and the opportunity – if they choose to do so – to wage war inside in communities across the country to which they have been dispersed.
With every state now reeling from the cumulative effects of these invaders, their governors have not only the duty, but the clear constitutional authority to act. Unfortunately, scarcely any have done so.
One of them, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, however, recently created leverage with Mexico – and the Biden team – to secure the border by imposing time-consuming and economically disruptive safety checks on incoming foreign trucks. Much more needs to be done, but it’s a start.
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will not be spending some $400 million to “facilitate” this year’s election. His decision may have had something to do with last week’s roll-out of a powerful video indictment of the impact of a similar donation by Zuckerberg and his wife in the 2020 race.
The movie is called “Rigged: The Zuckerberg Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump.” It documents how so-called “ZuckBucks” lavished primarily on local election officials in Democratic districts – involving, in some cases at least, actually staffing their balloting operations – had the predictable effect of corrupting the results.
Zuckerberg may spend millions more this year on what he calls an alliance for “election excellence.” But he better be very careful: So far, eight states have banned the sort of “philanthropy” he engaged in last cycle. And there’s talk he may face prosecution for undermining election integrity.
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President Biden announced yesterday a new initiative, ostensibly in response to surging violent crime rates across the country. Its centerpiece is a set of new restrictions on so-called “ghost guns” – a made-up descriptor for home-made weapons. The object, though, is called a “gun-grab.”
This is problematic on two scores. First, interfering with legal gun ownership is a hardy perennial of the Left, which understands the freedom to bear arms enshrined in our 2nd Amendment to be the ultimate check on its ambitions to “fundamentally transform” America.
Second, Joe Biden has acknowledged that he’s opting to use “regulatory action” because he cannot secure the congressional majorities needed to grab guns legally. Using unconstitutional means to impose unconstitutional restraints on Americans’ freedoms only compounds the unacceptability of the President’s gambit.
Reject this latest lurch towards tyranny, or expect more of it soon.
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It is often said that “Elections have consequences.” Rarely, though, has an election in one country had more profound consequences for another than the change from Donald Trump to Joe Biden has had on Israel.
Before President Trump left office, the Jewish State had benefited greatly from his commitment to its sovereignty, security and right to defend itself against Iran and allied terrorists. And Mr. Trump denied the Palestinians a veto over improved relations between Israelis and Arabs willing to make peace.
Team Biden, by contrast, has repeatedly undermined Israel and those who share its determination to counter the threat they all face from an incipient nuclear-armed Iran. He has, moreover, emboldened the mullahs with promises of perhaps another 150 billion dollars. And he’s renewed the Palestinians’ conviction that they can wage jihad against the Jews with impunity.
This won’t end well.
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Conventional wisdom, supported by recent polling, says Republicans will succeed in taking back the House and possibly the Senate in November’s elections. The Senate’s GOP caucus yesterday showed how they can still lose.
Rather than utilize the full thirty hours afforded them for post-cloture debate on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, every single one of the fifty Republican Senators acquiesced to a sharply truncated discussion of her radical record and problematic judgment.
Three of them actually voted for Judge Jackson’s confirmation. Knowing they would, the rest opted to vote “No” quickly, and then go on vacation.
They thereby missed an historic teachable moment – failing to inoculate the Supreme Court against Justice Jackson’s expected hard-leftist activism and alienating voters seeking representatives who will relentlessly stand and fight for their values and freedoms.
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House Democrats have just added to the list of partisan opponents they are determined to defame, bankrupt and otherwise destroy.
Their majority yesterday endorsed the January 6th Committee’s request for criminal prosecution of two more of President Donald Trump’s key subordinates, his Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino and trade adviser Peter Navarro. Others may yet be added to the list that already includes former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
Let’s get real: January 6th was not an insurrection. The committee investigating it is not legal. The prosecutions they seek are aimed at taking out the Democrats’ political targets, not getting to the truth.
And, most importantly, the committee is obscuring, not pursuing, evidence that what actually occurred that day was officially-sponsored “direct action” – not an attempt by Trump supporters to overthrow the U.S. government.
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Last night, Tucker Carlson announced a death watch for the Biden presidency. In one of the most insightful, and pathetic, video clips in American political history, he showed the President of the United States being shunned by former President Barack Obama and, God help us, future President Kamala Harris – and everybody else – at a recent White House event.
Think of it as “dead man shuffling.”
Tucker not only confirmed what I said here ten days ago: “Joe must go.” He powerfully showed that to now be the consensus in partisan Democratic circles.
The chilling prospect of Kamala ascending and/or the curtain being pulled back on what is effectively Obama’s third term demands an urgent effort to identify and recruit a non-partisan vice president, someone of real accomplishment, with a robust national security background and who will promise not to run in 2024.
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There’s something surreal about the unfolding nightmare along America’s southwestern border. As a direct result of Biden administration policies, roughly three million people from all over the world entered the United States illegally over the past 12 months.
200,000 of them entered in March alone. And that number will soon swell dramatically, thanks to President Biden’s recent elimination of pandemic-related restrictions.
Then, there are the roughly 125,000 mostly unvetted Afghans brought here by the U.S. government.
What is surreal is not just that the ominous social, economic, demographic and electoral impacts of this influx are being minimized. The fact that unaccompanied military-age men make up large percentages of these migrant populations suggests a literal invasion is underway, with potentially dire national security implications.
Will it take widespread violence here by such invaders before we awaken to this danger?
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For several generations, the radical left has been relentlessly engaged in what cultural Marxists call “a long march through the institutions.” This program of political warfare has systematically penetrated and undermined virtually every pillar of our Republic in order, as Barack Obama put it, to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
The revolutionaries’ long march is now poised to reach the last hold-out: the Supreme Court. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the choice of Black Lives Matters’ self-described Marxist leaders because she will be a champion of their subversive agenda of dividing Americans along racial lines, promoting toxic identity politics and undermining the “nuclear family.”
Judge Jackson’s radicalism is evident in her now-documented, inveterate leniency towards purveyors of child rape, torture and other forms of sexual abuse. She must not be allowed to begin fundamentally transforming the Supreme Court.
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If freedom-loving people have the opportunity to write the history of our time, they will doubtless decry the immense help that American elites have given to their country’s mortal enemy: the Chinese Communist Party. By some estimates, Wall Street mavens like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink have transferred more than $3 trillion of U.S. investors’ money, funds the CCP uses to wage “unrestricted warfare” against us.
Tragically, we lost yesterday an influential financier who stood athwart such betrayal. Dan Celia was the longtime host of a hugely popular TV and radio program and ministry called “Financial Issues.” He was sharply critical of fellow capitalists who fail to put patriotism before profits.
While we mourn Dan Celia’s untimely passing, he is surely in a position now to enlist more directly the Lord’s help in protecting the country he so dearly loved. Godspeed, our friend.
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“No borders. No walls. No USA at all.” That’s the rallying cry – and the agenda – of the radical leftists who have worked with fellow travelers in the Biden administration to open America’s southern border.
Now, they are celebrating the announcement that Team Biden is going to remove at the end of May the last significant impediment to illegal entry to this country. A Covid-19 pandemic-related provision known as Title 42 will be dispensed with, clearing the way for millions of single men, many of them military age, to join the invasion now well underway.
Government officials from President Biden on down are violating their oaths of office. Far from protecting our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, they are actively collaborating in those enemies’ efforts to ensure there is no USA at all. Will the rest of us tolerate such betrayals?
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You can tell a lot about a country by how its elites treat children and those who mistreat them. So, it’s ominous that America’s identity politics-obsessed left is promoting a new, favored category: so-called “minor-attracted persons.”
This odious practice of excusing pedophiles, child-abusers and sexual predators has been brought to the fore by the Senate’s review of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sentencing record. Just how problematic is her consistent practice of giving, wherever possible, relatively light punishments to such convicted criminals is suggested by her failure to disclose or otherwise explain to Senators the most recent, and egregious, of these cases.
That failure may constitute a felony offense. Either way, Judge Jackson’s extremism must be considered disqualifying for a lifetime seat on the highest court in the land. If she will not withdraw, she must be rejected.
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It is hard to overstate the U.S. government’s incoherence with respect to an extremely fraught topic. President Biden declared last week that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” The White House immediately claimed this was not a call for regime change. But yesterday, Mr. Biden insisted he wasn’t backing away from his original comment, spinning it as “moral outrage” at Putin’s bloodletting.
Putin has reportedly relocated to one of his hardened underground leadership bunkers in the Ural Mountains. That may be due to paranoia about a coup d’etat. It’s consistent, though, with preparation for a preemptive nuclear attack.
Our PresentDangerChina.org webinar last week made the case that, given Russia’s ability to launch such strikes essentially without warning, it behooves us to increase the readiness of our deterrent forces. Joe Biden’s loose talk makes that not just prudent, but imperative.
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In Poland last week, President Biden threw rhetorical matches into a potential nuclear tinder box. His suggestion that the 82nd Airborne would soon be in Ukraine and his subsequent declaration that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” invited preemptive action by the Kremlin.
Our PresentDangerChina.org webinar last week established that, given Putin’s doctrine, preparations and paranoia, such loose talk could well precipitate his first-use of nuclear weapons. The speed with which the White House walked back both statements suggests the magnitude of the danger.
Several conclusions follow from this latest Biden debacle: One, It’s time for Joe to go. Two, if he won’t resign, the 25th Amendment must be invoked to remove him. And, three, a new, non-partisan vice president must be appointed, one with a robust national security background who will promise not to run in 2024.
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As evidence continues to mount that President Biden is personally, deeply compromised by our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, everything he is doing to help the CCP demands urgent national security scrutiny. Fortunately, eight U.S. Senators have just added a new item to that list – and are calling for corrective action.
Last month, the Biden administration announced that it was terminating a Justice Department program called “the China Initiative” that was successfully exposing and rooting out CCP espionage inside the United States.
The pretext for terminating the Initiative is that it was “racist” thanks to the Chinese Communists’ practice of using PRC nationals, students and naturalized American citizens from China as spies.
The Senators are right: The CCP is a threat that cannot safely be ignored on such grounds. If anything, the effort to defeat it requires a vastly redoubled effort.
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As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continued making his rounds of Western legislatures with virtual speeches to a joint session of Congress yesterday and the German Bundestag today, he seemed to have scored at least one potentially significant victory. President Biden has joined him in declaring Russian dictator Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.”
The International Criminal Court has already opened an investigation into the ongoing, and still-intensifying, crimes against humanity Putin is inflicting on innocent civilians, refugees and others in Ukraine. At present, however, he seems unlikely to stand trial, let alone be punished.
Putin’s designation as a war criminal, however, could have an important knock-on effect, though. His ally, Communist China’s Xi Jinping, must be put on notice: Those enabling Putin’s crimes by violating international sanctions on Russian energy sales, resupplying the Kremlin’s arsenal, etc., will be deemed accomplices, and treated accordingly.
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Donald Trump promised we were going to “get tired of winning.” Now, I, for one, am tired of America losing.
The latest in a long and growing list of losses devastating our national prestige, honor, prosperity and other vital interests, is the reported deal whereby Communist China will begin buying Saudi oil in its currency, not dollars. That would be an ominous milestone in the transformation of the PRC into the world’s hegemon, whose protection and economic ties nations find more reliable – and necessary – than ours.
A hard reality must now be confronted: The cumulative effect of the wrecking operation the Biden-Harris administration has conducted is a pattern of wins for our mortal enemy: the Chinese Communist Party. There’s no sign that its dictator, Xi Jinping, has gotten tired of winning. Or that Team Biden is going to stop helping him do so.
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There’s much talk of a “Great Reset” favored by global capitalists more or less unapologetically admiring of the efficiency of the Chinese Communist Party. The day’s headlines demonstrate that what is needed instead is a “Freedom Reset.”
A CCP virus-justified lockdown of China’s key manufacturing hub in Shenzhen underscores the dangerous folly of supply-chain dependencies in the name of “engagement” with the People’s Republic. Deep sell-offs of Chinese stocks over concerns about, among other things, capricious government regulations and interference, is a warning against U.S. investments in them. And the prospect that Xi Jinping will help bail out his ally, Vladimir Putin, suggests worse is to come.
That’s especially so if U.S. states – including Republican-run ones – introduce China’s odious social credit system for surveilling and controlling their people in the guise of digital health cards. Join us in opposing them at StopVaxPassports.org.
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The reason Presidents Reagan and Trump practiced the national security policy they called “peace through strength” is that it works. Alternatives, like Joe Biden’s – which might be called “peace through groveling” – never has.
Look no further than Team Biden’s maniacal pursuit of a new nuclear deal with the mullahs of Iran. There appears to be no limit to the concessions and humiliations the Iranian regime is prepared to demand – and that Biden and Company are willing to accommodate.
Even a salvo of ballistic missiles launched from Iran into the immediate vicinity of a U.S. consulate in Iraq is no impediment to further appeasement in the name of preventing Tehran from getting The Bomb.
Unfortunately, there is no hope – none – that ayatollahs committed for over four decades to bringing “Death to America” will forego the most efficient means of inflicting it.
Enough already.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Vladimir Putin’s forces have attacked Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, including the one synonymous with radioactive disasters: Chernobyl. At particular risk are cooling ponds for spent fuel rods that, if denied electricity to circulate cold water, will see those rods torch-on, spreading radioactivity for many miles downwind and downstream.
Unfortunately, we face a similar danger at scores of nuclear power facilities here at home.
If our electric grid goes down and stays down, containment vessels should preclude radioactive releases from U.S. nuclear reactors. But once co-located emergency generators run out of fuel, the rods in their uncontained cooling ponds will catch fire, creating Fukashimas across America.
For eleven years, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has failed to act on a proposal to provide resilient and cost-effective emergency cooling for these storage sites. Join us in urging them to get that done now at SecuretheGrid.com.
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In a world in which tyranny is on the march from Ukraine to China to Latin America, there was an important victory for freedom yesterday. The people of South Korea rejected the presidential candidacy of a pro-North Korea, anti-America Communist.
Instead, they elected his conservative opponent, Yoon Suk Yeol, who has pledged to strengthen his country’s alliance with the United States, rebuild its ties with Japan and enhance its defenses against growing threats from North Korea and China.
The question occurs: Will the lame-duck leftist President Moon Jae-in use his remaining weeks in office to redouble his policy of appeasing North Korea that has been formally repudiated by the electorate? Not only would such a gambit be at odds with popular sentiment. It could embolden tyrants in Pyongyang and Beijing to take advantage of the transition to advance their territorial ambitions.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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Vice President Kamala Harris has been dispatched to buck up our NATO partners on the alliance’s eastern front lines. The effect is likely to be further signs of diminished confidence in the United States and slip-sliding away from confrontation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia over Ukraine.
For example, on the eve of Harris’ trip to Poland, Warsaw offered to send 28 of its old Soviet MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. air base in Germany in exchange for more modern American ones. Washington has nixed the idea, declining to transfer the MiGs onward to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Germany has refused to end its perilous dependence on Russian energy imports. With the Ukrainians negotiating what sounds like their inevitable surrender to Putin, expect more such fractures in NATO’s “united” front – especially in the wake of Kamala Harris’ practice of off-putting and incompetent diplomacy.
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A plausible argument can be made that environmental zealots like Greta Thunberg, the poster-girl of a Children’s Crusade aimed at weaning the world off fossil fuels, helped create today’s soaring energy prices. Western nations are contemplating intensifying this crisis by ending imports from the principal beneficiary of such “green” activism – and one of its sponsors, Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Such a cut-off could actually advance the “Green New Deal” agenda – namely, making oil, natural gas and their by-products prohibitively expensive. If the predictable economic train-wreck that would follow is to be avoided, sources and quantities of supply in Europe and here are going to have to be greatly diversified and expanded. Read, reversing virtually all of Joe Biden’s ideologically driven energy policies.
That includes avoiding creating new – and perilous – supply chain dependencies on Communist China for so-called “renewable” solar, wind and battery technologies.
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Tomorrow, yet another vital nation may be lost if the people of South Korea decide to elect a pro-North Korea, anti-America Communist as their next president. Or alternatively, if, despite the majority’s preference for his pro-freedom, conservative opponent, this election – like the parliamentary ones of 2020 – winds up fraudulently giving victory to the radical left.
Either way, the outcome would be a further blow to America’s strategic position in the world – and boon to Communist China’s.
Coming on the heels of the loss of Peru, Afghanistan, Chile and Ukraine in the past year, and the prospect that U.S. allies may be voted out in Colombia and Brazil in the next few months, our enemies will surely be further emboldened and our remaining friends destabilized.
A generation ago, the question was “Who lost China?” Today, it will be: “Who lost the Free World?”
This is Frank Gaffney.
While the world’s attention is focused on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the likelihood grows that ominous conflicts will erupt elsewhere, as well.
The obvious one will involve the Chinese Communists moving against Taiwan, either directly and forcefully or via a flanking maneuver, blockade and or other coercive, non-kinetic techniques including cyber, information and economic warfare.
In addition, even as Vladimir Putin pursues his Ukrainian invasion, he has put a large naval force into the Eastern Mediterranean. This may be an indicator that hostilities are imminent between Israel and one, or both, of the Kremlin’s regional clients: Iran and Syria.
Such a prospect is another reason, if any were needed, for Team Biden to abandon its appalling appeasement of the mullahs. The idea of giving them still more billions for additional empty promises to abandon their nuclear ambitions is not just reckless. It’s insane.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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Joe Biden’s Gaslight of the Union Tuesday was riddled with falsehoods and deflections. Particularly striking, however, was his failure to mention even once Communist China. That’s like having your doctor examine you for Covid, but not discuss your stage-five cancer.
We can speculate about why the Commander-in-Chief would completely leave out of what was supposed to be his assessment of the state of our Union the immense damage being done to it by the Chinese Communist Party’s decades-long “unrestricted warfare.” Perhaps his personal and family corruption by Beijing – shockingly documented in Peter Schweizer’s new book, Red-Handed – explains his completely ignoring its killer virus, deadly fentanyl smuggling, hollowing out of our economy, espionage, unreliable supply chains and growing military threats.
As it happens, the CCP did a simultaneous throw-down by threatening Taiwan. Joe Biden can pretend China is no problem. We can’t.
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News Flash: Joe Biden did not deliver the State of the Union last night. Instead, the man who plays the President of the United States on TV presented the Gaslight of the Union.
Virtually the entire speech before a joint session of Congress and a national – indeed, global – audience was a clearly poll-tested description of what the American people want – not what they have been getting from the Biden-Harris administration.
For example, the Commander-in-Chief professed his determination to secure the border. To fund the police. To lower inflation and decrease energy prices. To support the people of Ukraine in their desperate fight for freedom.
Unfortunately, a president who uses his most powerful platform of the year to lie to the American people about his record and priorities is unlikely to live up to the many, desirable commitments he made last night.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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Joe Biden’s State of the Union address tonight will likely feature promises of more federal spending aimed at advancing the radical left’s “fundamental transformation” of our country and spinning of his administration’s abysmal foreign policies.
A shocking “60 Minutes” segment aired on Sunday should prompt Mr. Biden to include in his remarks several concrete and immediate actions to address what is arguably the most important public policy issue of all: the danger that our electric grid is vulnerable to potentially catastrophic take-down.
The President must: make protecting the grid against all hazards a top priority; create a “czar” responsible for performing it; secure legislation requiring electric utilities to do their part; and prevent them from utilizing likely compromised equipment from China and other hostile powers.
We must secure the grid now, before it sustains devastating attack, endangering tens of millions of Americans.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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Fifty years ago this month, President Richard Nixon went to Communist China. The object was what his successors of both parties have done ever since – namely, seeking China’s assistance with some American priority or another, from countering the Soviet threat to help in ending the Vietnam war to opening markets to mitigating climate change.
Whatever the U.S. motivation for “engaging” with the ruling Chinese Communist Party, the actual effect five decades later is clear: The CCP has eaten our lunch.
Instead of our enriching the Chinese Communists translating into actual help from Beijing – let alone making them more like us – we have simply enabled China to wage what the CCP calls “unrestricted warfare” against this country and the Free World more generally.
It is absolutely insane for us to persist in engaging with, let alone continue underwriting, our most dangerous enemy ever.
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“Decapitation” is graphic way of describing the evident object of Vladimir Putin’s intensifying invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, if this despot can get away with not only eliminating an elected government in one of Russia’s neighbors, but presumably installing one to his liking there, other enemies of freedom will surely be emboldened to do the same.
Former President Trump warns that Russia’s “twin sister” – Communist China – will be next to act on Beijing’s longstanding ambition to extend its enslaving misrule to Taiwan.
The question now is: Can such calculations – whether by the Chinese Communist Party or other thugs allied with Russia and China – still be influenced? That will depend in part on whether endangered governments are convinced that they will be better supported than we have those of Afghanistan, and now Ukraine. Or whether they should simply surrender preemptively to freedom’s enemies.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Overnight, Vladimir Putin went to full-on war in Ukraine. The Russian dictator is appears set on nothing less than the conquest of that neighboring nation, demilitarizing it, changing its government and dominating it henceforth in a manner reminiscent of the Kremlin’s previous enslavement of Ukrainians and others during the Russian empire and its Soviet counterpart.
Regrettably, such aggression seems unlikely to end there. Putin and his partners in China, Iran and North Korea appear to perceive a window of opportunity, thanks to weakness in Washington and the West more generally, to use violence to reorder things to their liking.
In the face of such dangers, America must revert to a policy of peace through strength aimed at demonstrating convincingly that the United States and its allies have the capacity and the will to counter aggressors forcefully, not just punish them economically.
This is Frank Gaffney.
On February 11th, I asked in this space, “What is Vladimir Putin thinking?” Now we know. After the Russian dictator invaded eastern Ukraine earlier this week, he’s channeling another tyrant’s calculations of nearly nine decades ago.
Similarities between Adolf Hitler’s actions and Putin’s recent conduct are striking. An Anschluss like the Nazis’ uncontested occupation of Austria has lately happened in Belarus. Putin has reprised the Third Reich’s brazen seizure of Czechoslovakia’s German-populated Sudetenland, in the name of ethnic solidarity, with his operations in Ukraine’s Crimea and Donbass regions.
Vladimir Putin now probably calculates that, like Hitler, he can finish the dismembering of the country he’s targeted. The Western response again has been too little, too late. And, most worrying, like Hitler, he has a powerful partner in such crimes. His Stalin is another ruthless Communist: China’s Xi Jinping.
Brace for impact.
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So it begins. As predicted in this space, now that China’s Genocide Games are complete, Vladimir Putin has launched his long-planned invasion of Ukraine. It turns out not to be a “minor incursion.” Rather, the Russian dictator has – clearly by pre-arrangement – recognized the independence of two Ukrainian provinces in the Donbass region and moved so-called peacekeeping forces in to begin the process of annexing them to Russia.
This is unlikely to be the extent of what might be called the “Not-So-Great Reset.” In a speech yesterday forcefully denouncing the legitimacy of Ukraine’s sovereignty, Putin made plain that his ambitions extend to the whole of that country.
In the absence of the needed, credible deterrence by the United States, we must expect moreover that Putin’s Communist Chinese allies – and perhaps others – will seize the opportunity for aggression, as well. That will end badly.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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One of the most worrisome consequences of the Chinese Communist Party’s virus and the pandemic that has flowed from it is this chilling fact: The pandemic that appears to have emanated from a CCP bioweapons laboratory in Wuhan, China is having a devastating impact on our military personnel.
That’s in part due to the disease itself. But mostly, it is thanks to the damage being done by the Covid-19 “vaccines” and President Biden’s insistence that all service personnel be subjected to them.
A recent, powerful webinar viewable at www.StopVaxPassports.org demonstrates the immense harm being done to the physical condition of our troops, their morale, readiness and deterrent capabilities. All of which is being exacerbated by the Biden team’s racist, ideological brainwashing and purges.
At a time when multiple wars are impending, such unilateral U.S. disarmament invites disaster for our national security.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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A revered friend of mine has just survived the latest of myriad surgeries as part of many months of desperate attempts to save his life. To protect his privacy, let’s call him “Tim.”
Tim is one of the most brilliant national security practitioners of his generation. He’s a distinguished veteran of combat overseas and the bureaucratic wars in Washington.
Tim’s experience mirrors what’s been happening to the country he loves so deeply and has served so well. Like America, he’s been wracked by disease, debilitating hardships and skyrocketing costs.
Also like the USA, Tim is tenaciously fighting to survive the forces of darkness working to take him down. His heroic courage is an inspiration to those of us who love him and a hopeful sign that our nation will pull through, too.
Please join me in praying for Tim – and for America.
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Last week, in a searing, hour-long interview, a serving, combat veteran Marine officer identified only as “Paul” told me about the destruction that is being inflicted upon our military by Biden’s Covid-19 vaccination mandates, ideological purges and other policies.
The resulting, enduring damage to the armed forces has become even more obvious with the revelation that the Pentagon leadership is now taking steps to conceal evidence of the physical harm tied to experimental gene therapies it has inflicted on our troops. As Conservative Review’s brilliant Daniel Horowitz has documented, shocking data recently given to Senator Ron Johnson by three Defense Department whistleblowers has been deceptively altered.
The culture of the military and the servicemen and women’s confidence in their superiors are essential to readiness and deterrence. We risk breaking both irreparably. God help us if we let that happen, as our enemies won’t.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned American Olympians last week not to anger the “ruthless” Chinese Communist regime. Those inside the Genocide Games’ totalitarian bubble surely needed no reminder that they are competing in a monstrous police state – and, thereby, legitimating it.
Rather, Mrs. Pelosi seems to be trying to impress on the rest of us that the CCP’s rise is inevitable, and that resistance to it is dangerously futile. She sounds like “Tokyo Rose” – the voice of Imperial Japan’s efforts to demoralize and defeat our troops in World War II.
Unfortunately, “Beijing Nancy,” like the two people north of her in the constitutional food chain, is compromised financially and/or ideologically by the Chinese Communist Party.
The CCP sees an opportunity for aggression. Disabusing it requires publicly repudiating Beijing Nancy and the others among our elites “captured” by, and helping, our ruthless enemies.
This is Frank Gaffney.
In a triumph for tyranny, the world’s nations will be honoring and legitimating today the genocidal Chinese Communist Party. No good can come of the Genocide Games in Beijing.
Not since 1936, when Adolf Hitler hosted the Summer Olympics in the Third Reich’s Berlin, has the so-called “international community” provided a bigger propaganda windfall for so monstrous a regime. Just as the effect then was an emboldened megalomaniac and mass murder at his hands, both at home and abroad, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is sure to feel the way clear to intensify with impunity his domestic oppression and his foreign aggression.
The very least we can do is deny the Chinese Communist Party – and its enablers like broadcaster NBC – the global audience they seek by refusing to watch the Genocide Games. Join us in turning off these odious Olympics at GenocideGames.org.
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The weather is awful in much of the country at the moment. In Texas, it is also an ominous reminder of a “perfect storm” that took down that state’s electric grid a year ago, costing many lives and over $100 billion in other damage. Hopefully, such a disaster is not in the offing now.
But there could be a repetition. Despite Governor Greg Abbott’s repeated assurances that the vulnerabilities that gave rise to last year’s crisis have been fixed thanks to state legislation enacted in the intervening period, his grid’s serious shortcomings persist.
Whatever happens with the present mega-storm, Governor Abbot needs to call a special session of the state legislature and task it with actually assuring the Texas grid’s resiliency – both to protect his own constituents and to serve as a model for the rest of our country.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray sounded an urgent alarm yesterday at the Reagan Library. He warned that Communist China is, well, eating our lunch.
Thanks to the CCP’s systematic espionage, cyberwarfare, intellectual property theft and active subversion, there is, in Director Wray’s words, “No country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, our innovation, and our economic security than China.” It is, in short, our mortal enemy.
Yet, the Biden Justice Department is reportedly giving serious consideration to the demands of “Old Friends of China.” They claim the FBI and DoJ are engaged in xenophobic and racist witchhunts against innocent Chinese nationals and others in Beijing’s so-called “Thousand Talents” recruitment program.
To paraphrase “Jaws”: If anything, we’re gonna need a bigger “China Initiative” to counteract the Biden team’s efforts to “manage” Communist China’s inevitable “rise,” and America’s inexorable and desirable decline.
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Remarkably, as Black History Month gets underway, the man who is arguably the most powerful black American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas – having served with distinction in that role for thirty years – is being aggressively denigrated by the left. Its operatives transparently seek to discredit and otherwise diminish a man for being a principled and impactful conservative.
The present campaign does so by vilifying Justice Thomas’ wife, Ginni, another principled conservative whom I am privileged to call a valued colleague. Leftist partisans in the media and their allies want to negate both Mrs. Thomas’ effective public policy activism and the Justice’s votes by dictating when he must recuse himself from cases before the Court.
Both Clarence and Ginni Thomas have exhibited immense courage, integrity and independent thought over the years. They deserve our nation’s thanks, not the left’s scurrilous attacks.
This is Frank Gaffney.
We lost two Great Americans last weekend. Their deaths would have been mourned at any time, but especially so in this perilous moment.
The first was a storied military leader, one-hundred-year-old Army Major General John Singlaub, Jack was a Special Forces warrior who performed extraordinary feats as a member of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, during the Chinese civil war, in Korea and Vietnam. His courage and unwavering opposition to Communism were inspirations to countless others here and around the world.
The second was Larry Greenfield, a much younger man, but also a life-long freedom-fighter. While Larry served as a naval intelligence officer, he will be most remembered for his many non-kinetic contributions in the War of Ideas on behalf of our exceptional country and its most important ally, Israel.
God bless these departed national treasures.
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Winston Churchill described World War II as the “unnecessary war.” He believed, rightly, that the West’s failure to understand and counter early on the territorial and other hegemonic ambitions of its totalitarian foes made an otherwise avoidable conflict inevitable.
That failure was made palpable in the British and French governments’ negotiations with Adolf Hitler behind the backs of their Czech allies. The resulting agreement produced not peace in that time, but the loss of a Free World nation and set in motion Axis aggression in Europe and elsewhere.
The bilateral and NATO diplomacy now underway with Russia’s Putin, excluding the Ukrainians, is signaling again the West’s irresolution and weakness. Tragically, as in 1938, the world seems likely soon to reap the whirlwind, not only in Eastern Europe, but in Asia and the Middle East, in the next, horrific and unnecessary global war.
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The wrecking operation that passes for Joe Biden's administration has just prematurely ended the career of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. No sooner had the President unilaterally announced Justice Breyer's departure than he declared that only a black woman would be considered as his replacement.
Mr. Biden made a similar, constitutionally challenged, indeed racist commitment with respect to his vice-presidential selection of Kamala Harris and even Joe Biden seems to have realized that was an unadulterated mistake. In fact, they get along so badly that he reportedly is prepared to nominate Kamala as Breyer's replacement just to get her out of the White House.
Fortunately, the American people having been fooled once by Biden's racist appointment of someone of such limited ability and even less personal appeal seem unlikely to agree to her obtaining a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.
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The Biden administration would have us believe that it is robustly opposing a potentially imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine.
At the same time, however, Team Biden is sending a very mixed signal to Moscow. As part of its obsession with reaching some new Iran nuclear agreement, U.S. diplomats are reportedly relying on their Russian counterparts to facilitate secret negotiations with the mullahs. There are many reasons to be concerned about this activity – including its lubrication by the release to Tehran of billions of dollars held by South Korea and the promised, premature termination of sanctions.
But you can’t both expect to deter a thug like Vladimir Putin and rely on his good offices vis a vis Iran. Wars often start by miscalculation. And encouraging perceptions of, at best, Washington’s incoherence, and at worst, its cynical dishonesty about protecting Ukraine actually invites it.
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According to legend, a single, courageous Roman warrior named Horatius successfully defended a bridge against an invading army, sparing his city from certain destruction. It turns out that we have a Horatius in the U.S. Senate: Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
Yesterday, Senator Johnson convened an informal hearing about the Covid-19 virus and the toll it has needlessly taken on our countrymen and women due to governmental and media ineptitude and malfeasance. He took five hours of testimony from leading medical practitioners, vaccine victims and other experts who participated in an extraordinary “Defeat the Mandates” march in Washington the day before.
On this issue and the Big Lie about January 6th being an “insurrection,” Senator Johnson is singlehandedly showing his Republican colleagues what they can, and must, do this year – even in the minority: Namely, expose the truth.
Godspeed Horatius Johnson!
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The case for U.S. athletes to skip the Winter Games in Beijing keep growing – and the failure of Olympic authorities to pull the plug becomes ever more egregious.
For one thing, the public health crisis that has prompted the Chinese Communist Party to lockdown conservatively seventy million people around the country has reached Beijing, as well.
For another, the Olympics are shaping up to be an even bigger super-spreader event than the notorious Wuhan New Year’s pot-luck that helped disseminate Covid-19 worldwide. Will our athletes and others potentially infected in Beijing be welcomed home, and, if so, how soon?
The problem has become so acute that two of the news networks that will be enabling the CCP’s propaganda-fest now won’t send their announce teams to Beijing, lest their personnel get sick.
Our Olympians must now be told “Don’t go there.”
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Dr. Peter McCullough is one of the world’s most influential physicians. Sunday, he’ll address a march in Washington. Tonight, he gives Secure Freedom Radio his prescription for our country:
“I think at this point in time, we go ahead and drop all the vaccine mandates. We can make things very easy for the Supreme Court and the Biden administration. And then we pull the vaccines off the market – Pfizer, J&J and Moderna. Pull them….Do a review on safety. Figure out what went wrong: Why did they fail against the variants?
“And then, if an occasional sick Omicron patient comes up, [they’ll be early-treated with available therapies]. They're very treatment responsive. And then we go back to normal. Now we can stop all the emergency measures, stop all the masks, lockdowns, social distancing. Stop all that. Just return to normal now.”
Amen.
This is Frank Gaffney.
“What the President meant to say” is bureaucratese for damage- limitation when the nation’s Chief Executive makes policy via unscripted pronouncements. It kicked in after Joe Biden signaled during yesterday’s press conference that Russia could use a little military force against Ukraine with impunity.
The uproar that ensued on both sides of the Atlantic prompted the White House immediately to affirm that the President meant to tell Vladimir Putin that any military actionby his forces would result in a “swift, severe and united response.”
Unfortunately, long before this telegraphed Biden dive, his humiliating Afghan surrender and collapse on impeding Putin’s Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, the Russian dictator knew what Americans are still learning to their horror: This President is no match for ruthless tyrants – and not just Ukraine, but the world, is likely soon to suffer greatly as a result.
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There’s a lot of loose talk at the moment about “voting rights.” The question is not so much what those rights are, but who gets to exercise them. And what partisans denouncing Republican state and federal legislators for “suppressing the vote” are really concerned about is that people who are not legal voters will be prevented from casting ballots.
That would include, notably, illegal aliens – every one of whom can disenfranchise American citizens by effectively negating their ballots.
Fortunately, Biden and Company currently cannot enact legislation that would institutionalize fraud-conducive voting arrangements like those that compromised the 2020 presidential election. But they are establishing in New York City the model for ending the citizenship requirement for voting that will surely be replicated in Democratic strongholds across the country.
This must not be allowed to happen to your voting rights.
This is Frank Gaffney.
America’s top athletes are, for better or worse, celebrities. That’s because they not only excel in their sports. Vast followings also can translate press coverage of their musings into ratings.
Thus, when prominent NBA players and owners curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party, their submission of human rights and U.S. interests to profit considerations gets attention. The most recent example is the statement by an owner of the Golden State Warriors that “I don’t care about the Uyghurs” being genocidally persecuted by the CCP.
Fortunately, one courageous NBA player, Enes Kantor Freedom, is denouncing this preoccupation with “making money and promoting CCP propaganda.” Freedom has asked the Warriors owner whether he’d care if female members of his family were being tortured and gangraped every day, like Uyghur women.
Will American Olympians care about genocide, or join those submitting to its perpetrators?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Today, we are supposed to be celebrating the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King, tragically cut short by a white supremacist assassin’s bullet. Unfortunately, what we are witnessing in America today is MLK’s assassination 2.0 – this time at the hands of Marxist racists.
Consider the radical left’s wholesale repudiation of Dr. King’s most famous aspiration, that we be judged by “the content of our character, not the color of our skin.” It is now Biden administration policy that Americans in government, in uniform and in schools be indoctrinated to believe we are unalterably defined by our race.
What would Martin Luther King say about Critical Race Theory and denying white people medications and treatments reserved for “people of color”? He was the man we honor on this holiday precisely because he would reject such reverse-racism, and castigate those who perpetrate it.
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Over a year after the so-called “insurrection” at the Capitol, the Justice Department has finally, formally accused eleven people with sedition in connection with what happened there on January 6, 2021. The most prominent of those thus charged is Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, reinforcing the Biden team’s official narrative that our constitutional Republic is in mortal peril thanks to that and other “extremist militias” and their sympathizers.
This prosecution may be complicated by the mostly kid-glove treatment Rhodes and an-as-yet-uncharged lieutenant, Ray Epps, have received to date, suggesting they were working with the FBI on January 6th – either as informants or provocateurs. Presumably, that evidence will emerge in any trials of Oath Keepers personnel and, if so undermine both such proceedings and the party line that large numbers of conservatives, veterans and patriots are domestic terrorists.
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North Korea just demonstrated a missile capability for which the United States has no counterpart. Worse yet, we have no defense against Kim Jong-un’s hypersonic weapon – or for that matter, similar systems now being introduced into the Russian and Chinese arsenals.
How could a Communist regime so poor it can’t feed its people obtain the world’s most advanced missile technology? The answer is that North Korea’s tyrannical government gets by, as it always has, with the help of its friends in Beijing and Moscow.
And they, in turn, have benefitted from help from us – notably, the transfer of hypersonic missile-related technology to the Russians pursuant to one of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s pay-to-play schemes. There must be accountability for such dangerous misconduct, and urgent steps taken to field credible in-kind deterrents to, and defenses against, the burgeoning hypersonic threat.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Yesterday, while ostensibly promoting voting rights, Joe Biden declared war on people he explicitly described as domestic enemies.
He was not talking about the Marxists and Islamists who have made no secret of their desire to “fundamentally transform” America, replacing via stolen elections or through color revolutions our constitutional Republic with the form of totalitarian government they respectively favor.
Such actual enemies are, of course, part of Biden’s base. Instead, he’s targeting Americans who share: a love of God and the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution; a commitment to election integrity; and a reluctance to be vaccinated with increasingly ineffective, and even harmful, so-called “vaccines.”
It’s not treason to oppose Mr. Biden’s desperate bid to enact legislation that would impose permanently and nationwide the fraud-conducive voting arrangements that enabled his election. And Americans who do so are not the enemy.
This is Frank Gaffney.