Secure Freedom Minute

President Donald Trump is making a gigantic bet on a remade Middle East. The massive weapons sales he has announced to Saudi Arabia and others that may be in the offing with additional regional states, to say nothing of his termination of sanctions on and possible normalization of relations with Syria might make sense in a region transformed by two other developments.
First, Iran has genuinely ceased to be a threat to all of its neighbors, and us, by being denuclearized, ending the regime’s support for terrorism and terminating its proxy wars.
And second, Israel has decisively defeated its enemies – and ours – and re-emerged as America’s powerful, secure and valued ally. 
As a practical matter, however, those two conditions can only emerge if the Iranian people have been liberated from the mullahocracy that brutally oppresses them and threatens the rest of us. 
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Overshadowed by news yesterday of progress by the Trump team in securing more reciprocal trade arrangements with the Chinese Communist Party were reports that top Wall Street firms are doubling down on the CCP’s wildly unreciprocated access to our capital markets.
At issue is fundraising that Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America are determined to do for what the Pentagon has determined is a “Chinese military company operating in the United States.” Known as CATL, this conglomerate makes electric batteries for consumer vehicles. Its batteries are also making China’s submarines more lethal.
House CCP Committee Chairman John Moolinaar has explicitly warned Dimon and Moynihan to abandon the CATL deal. By refusing to do so, they must now be subject to extensive document disclosures and, ideally – given the harm they are causing to the national security – public repudiation, as well. 
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Even as the United States was negotiating yesterday with Iranian diplomats to effect their country’s denuclearization, Iran’s regime was putting on a show of its undiminished enmity with mobs chanting “death to America.” 
The man most especially, and quite literally, in the mullahs’ crosshairs is President Donald Trump. They have for some time had assassination squads inside this country with orders to kill him and several of his former senior subordinates. 
This week, incredibly, the President is scheduled to visit three Middle Eastern nations – Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar – that are awash with such Iranian operatives and/or Muslim Brotherhood-tied jihadists itching to murder him. What could possibly go wrong?
In short, any single thing and Donald Trump is coming home in a box.
Please call the White House at 202-456-1111 and urge the President to cancel his trip now.  
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The election of Peruvian-American Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV is a fresh start for the Vatican. Or is it? 
An early test of whether this papacy will amount to more of the same will be if the new pontiff continues the worst legacy of Pope Francis – namely, his toxic secret deal with the Chinese Communist Party.
A damning documentary available for free at RepealtheDeal.org makes clear that the CCP has weaponized such legitimization by the Vatican to intensify its destructive domination of Catholics, their churches, their Bible and other people of faith. 
In short, Pope Leo’s decision will determine whether the Church will serve Jesus Christ – or a literal anti-Christ figure: China’s dictator Xi Jinping, who is determined to be treated as a god, especially by faithful Christians.
The world needs a new pope, not Francis 2.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 
Eighty years ago today, the Second World War in Europe ended. Amidst celebrations of the anniversary, there’s widespread cognitive dissonance – psychologists’ term for an inability to perceive what one doesn’t want to see.
European elites in particular profess concerns about the possibility of another invasion of their lands, this time by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They bemoan President Trump’s purported diminished commitment to Europe’s security in light of Chinese preparations for war that our Indo-Pacific commander recently described as at a “rapid boil.”
The truth is that Europe has already been invaded by millions of illegal immigrants best described as Sharia-supremacists for their attachment to Islam’s totalitarian code which requires that its adherents engage in jihad and conquest. Europe’s collective failure to address – and mitigate – this threat may mean the next victory there will be celebrated by freedom’s enemies, not its friends.
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Bloomberg reports that two of Wall Street’s biggest firms have doubled-down on their intention to help raise at least $7 billion dollars for a Chinese military company helping the People’s Liberation Army prepare to kill Americans. 
Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America exemplify the indifference of too many in the U.S. financial sector about national security. Evidently, they’re determined to help enable electric battery-manufacturer CATL’s making Chinese conventional submarines a more lethal threat to our naval forces and personnel.
House CCP Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar has warned the companies to drop the CATL deal and SEC Chairman Paul Atkins to stop such corporate enabling of our enemy in violation of President Trump’s “America First Investment Policy.” 
These material risks are not being properly disclosed to investors, greatly compounding the treacherous malfeasance of JPMorgan and Bank of America.
This is Frank Gaffney.