Secure Freedom Minute

Today, President Trump is supposed to receive recommendations of the Secretaries of State and the Treasury concerning arguably his second presidency’s most consequential national security decision to date. 
At stake is whether the United States joins other allied nations in banning the Muslim Brotherhood. Or alternatively, pretends that the organization is not leading a global Islamic movement to destroy our constitutional Republic and Western civilization. 
Dozens of leading American freedom-fighters just appealed to Mr. Trump to ban the Brotherhood, meaning the parent organization as well as all of its chapters and subdivisions, including the U.S. ones and their extensive infrastructure in this country.
By so doing, the President can clearly demonstrate that America will resist, not submit to, the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies’ bid to transform ours from the land of the free to the home of the enslaved.
This is Frank Gaffney.

The threat the Chinese Communist Party poses not just to us, but the whole world is truly catastrophic. For example, China expert Gordon Chang recently illuminated the CCP’s global predations via immense, and often illegal, fishing operations.
Notably, he reports Communist China has fifty-setven thousand industrial fishing vessels that have over two recent years fished in the waters of more than ninety countries for more than twenty-two million hours.
Mr. Chang concludes that “thanks to Chinese illegal fishing and other factors, the seas have been stripped bare,” citing an expert as estimating that ninety-three percent of the world’s major fish stocks are either fully exploited, overexploited, or significantly depleted.
Such “locusts” of the seas imperil billions worldwide, as does the Chinese Communist Party that weaponizes them. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

On December 20th, President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a powerful warning to the AmFest audience. She declared that Islam’s sharia-supremacist ideology, which she called “Islamism,” is “the greatest near and long-term threat to our freedom and security.”
Director Gabbard’s warning could hardly be more timely as the President will imminently act on recommendations by the Secretaries of State and Treasury about whether, and to what extent, he should ban the world’s preeminent champion of that toxic ideology – namely, the Muslim Brotherhood. 
The Brotherhood’s most important enablers, Qatar and Turkey, clearly oppose any such sanctions. But the evidence that it is a foreign terrorist organization and its toxic “political ideology” seeks our nation’s destruction cannot be ignored, let alone given a pass. 
Take action now by calling on President Trump to ban the Brotherhood at BantheBrotherhood.org. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

2026 will be a challenging year. The United States will be preoccupied with potentially game-changing mid-term elections. Western European nations seem likely to slide further into what Team Trump calls illegal immigrant-induced “civilization erasure.” 
Then, there’s Russia’s intensifying bloodletting in Ukraine and  Western civilization’s unfinished wars with jihadists in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. 
The question to which we must give earnest, focused and sustained attention is: Will China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, perceive such distractions – at least some of which he relentlessly fosters – as an irresistible opportunity to transition from the pre-kinetic warfare his Chinese Communist Party has long waged against us to a shooting war?
An important webinar today will explore that prospect – and what we must be doing now to prepare for, and hopefully deter, it. You have a need-to-know. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump will soon make what may be the most important national security decision of his second presidency. And scarcely anyone even knows it’s impending, let alone how fraught the wrong choice would be. 
Given the incredibly high stakes for our people and constitutional Republic, the lack of the necessary public awareness and national debate about this decision is completely unacceptable.
By Christmas Eve, Mr. Trump is supposed to get a report from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about how to handle the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood. Our Victory Coalition report describes the President’s “choice” as either ban the Brotherhood or face “civilization erasure” here. 
You have a need to know the right answer – and why. So does President Trump. Learn why he must ban the Brotherhood and encourage him to do so at BantheBrotherhood.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.

During a White House Hannukah celebration yesterday, President Trump declared that, “All nations will stand together against the evil forces of radical Islamic terrorism” and observed that the perpetrators of a weekend massacre of Jews at a Hannukah party in Australia were “driven by Islamic state ideology.”
As it happens, Mr. Trump has a looming opportunity to act on those statements. By Christmas Eve, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are supposed to provide a report on the Muslim Brotherhood, the international organization that champions the ideology known as sharia that animates the Islamic State and other jihadists.
Mr. Trump will either ban the Brotherhood or encourage sharia’s adherents to believe they and their ideology will get away with achieving not just more terrorist attacks, but “civilization erasure,” here as well as abroad. 
Take action at BantheBrotherhood.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.