Secure Freedom Minute

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. This is Frank Gaffney

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