Secure Freedom Minute

Resist the Temptation to Prop Up Erdogan

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rivaled the likes of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Iran’s Ayatollah Khameini and Syria’s Bashir Assad for the length of his rule, its ruthless dictatorship at home and its aspirations for imperial power abroad. 
In particular, in keeping with his Sharia-supremacist ideology, Erdogan has long sought to reconstitute the Ottoman empire and  become its ruling caliph. His recent success in replacing Assad with a murderous jihadist puppet seemed to clear the way for not only destroying our Kurdish and other friends in Syria, but running the table in the wider Mideast.
Suddenly, though, the would-be caliph is reckoning with violent revolts at home and relying on foreign jihadists to keep him in power. Official Washington’s reflexive response would likely be to try to prop us this supposed “NATO ally” who hosts key U.S. bases.
We should resist the temptation.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Secretary Bessent - "Screen Out" Wall Street's CATL Fundraiser, Now!

The new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent affirmed yesterday the Trump administration’s determination to stop underwriting the growing threat posed by our greatest “foreign adversary”: Communist China. 
Thus, a U.S. CFO has finally supported an “America First Investment Policy” that will screen “outbound investment” to respect American investors’ commonsensical unwillingness to facilitate the CCP’s military buildup, human rights abuses and surveillance-state oppression. 
A dynamite PresentDangerChina.org webinar yesterday confirmed J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are nonetheless trying to sluice over $7 billion to a Chinese military company accused of using slave labor without transparently disclosing such material risks – let alone the dire implications for its securities’ value of President Trump’s America First policy.
Secretary Bessent: Screen out the CATL China First fundraiser. Now.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Mr. President - Stop CATL

Last month, President Trump told his administration to implement an “America First Investment Policy” to stop Wall Street’s underwriting – and greatly intensifying – the threat we face from Communist China.
This month, four prominent U.S. investment banks are defying his executive action by ramping up their China First investment policy. J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are helping a Chinese military company called CATL raise $7 billion dollars or more from American and other investors. 
They have so far failed to mention President Trump’s directive, let alone its potential negative impact on the value of this foreign adversary’s corporation and its securities.
The Trump team must make an example of CATL’s Initial Public Offering by disallowing its enabling by U.S. banks. It should also require prominent warnings about any such future deals that they put China, not America, First.  
This is Frank Gaffney.

Britain's Hard-Left Government

Britain's hard-left government has temporarily entrusted its Office of Standards in Education to Sir Hamad Patel. If allowed to stand, this appointment would appear to mark a tipping point in Western submission to Sharia supremacism. Sir Hamad is ranked among the 500 top Muslims worldwide, a list dominated by adherence to authoritative Islam's totalitarian doctrine known as Sharia. It obliges faithful Muslims to engage in stealthy if not violent, jihad to achieve global Islamic rule. Fortunately, not all Muslims follow Sharia or seek to impose it worldwide. The bad news is that Sir Hamad isn't among them.
Only a nation that is suicidally irresponsible about Sharia and the mortal threat it poses to Judeo-Christian civilization would entrust to an individual who is Sharia adherent the job of standard setting for its educational system. Others, including ours, must not indulge in similar delusions. 

President Trump: Don't Let Wall Street Put China First, Again

President Trump recently unveiled one of his most important initiatives called the “America First Investment Policy.” It’s supposed to end Wall Street’s insane practice of using U.S. retail investors’ retirement and other funds to help the Chinese Communist Party threaten our people – and repress those of China.
Yesterday, Ronald Reagan’s financial warfare expert, Roger Robinson, told Maria Bartiromo’s audience that J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have doubled down. 
They intend shortly to use our money to raise at least $7 billion for a Chinese electric battery manufacturer known as CATL. The Defense Department says the company supports our mortal enemy’s military. And five key legislators – one of whom is now Secretary of State Marco Rubio – have denounced CATL for using slave labor.
President Trump, keep Wall Street from putting China First, again: Say “No” to CATL.
This is Frank Gaffney.

What We Must "Want" in Iran - Its People's Liberation

President Trump – like his predecessors – has insisted that Sharia-supremacist Iran will not be allowed to get “the Bomb.” Unfortunately, the ayatollahs can probably reveal at any time that they have done so.
So, there’s great urgency to the ultimatum Mr. Trump gave  Iran’s regime this week, to either resume denuclearization negotiations or face military action. Iran’s president recently responded that his country will not negotiate and told him to “do whatever the hell you want.”
Since what we want is an end to the nuclear and other threats from Tehran, the response must be to help Israel enable the long-suffering Iranian people to liberate themselves from the regime that brutally oppresses them and explicitly seeks our destruction and that of the Jewish State – namely, by targeting the mullahocracy and the security apparatus that keeps it in power. 
This is Frank Gaffney.