This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Donald Trump has achieved the release of all twenty of the surviving hostages seized and brutalized by Hamas two years ago. Praise God! It remains to be seen, however, at what price it has been achieved. Two thousand terrorists – including some of the most…
In May 2019, the Chinese Communist Party declared a whole-of-society “People’s War” on the United States. Yesterday, Beijing announced highly restrictive controls on exports to this country of rare earth minerals essential to our economic activity and national security. History may record it as the moment when China’s longstanding, pre-kinetic “unrestricted warfare” against us took…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, negotiations in Egypt on a 20-point plan for ending hostilities in Gaza bore fruit with a ceasefire that is supposed to result in Hamas releasing “all” of the remaining Israeli hostages, living and dead, whom it seized two years ago. The question is: Will that…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Two years ago, the Gaza franchise of the terrorist organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood perpetrated the most horrific act of jihad since 9/11, beheading raping and murdering 1200 Israeli babies, women and men. The Biden-Harris administration responded with rhetorical sympathy, intermittent support and a diplomatic…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Twelve years ago, China’s Communist emperor, Xi Jinping, launched his so-called “Belt and Road Initiative.” It’s used to colonize nations around the world, seducing and entrapping them with large investments in infrastructure and other projects. Now, according to the formidable Chairman of the House Select CCP…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Donald Trump has practiced the “art of the deal” for decades. The question is: Will his ambition to achieve a transformative Middle East peace agreement cause him to violate one of the most important principles of any constructive negotiation: You must be willing to walk away…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. For over fifty years, we’ve waged a “war on drugs.” A memo recently sent to Congress says President Trump has now declared we’re in a “non-international armed conflict with…designated terrorist organizations” and directed the Pentagon to conduct operations against them pursuant to the law of armed…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. At a meeting with military leaders on Tuesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and President Trump opened the door to an urgently needed corrective to our national security posture. In the context of restoring the Pentagon’s focus on warfighting for a potentially imminent conflict, Secretary Hegseth…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The War Department is back. Yesterday, its secretary, Pete Hegseth, told our top commanders what a difference that will make. Every American – certainly those in uniform, but most especially our civilians – need to listen to what was one of the most impressive public addresses…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The day Secretary of War Pete Hegseth chose to gather hundreds of generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia, the flag of Communist China will fly over our nation’s birthplace in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, the whole country may one day be flying China’s flag, rather than our own,…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. At the White House today, Donald Trump will likely press Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end hostilities in Gaza. Both men would be well advised, however, to have Iran top of mind. Of course, Iran’s regime precipitated the horrific invasion of Israel by Hamas two…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. In a nomination hearing last week, Riley Barnes cited former Senator and Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “We are a nation founded on a powerful principle…that all men are created equal, because our rights come from God our Creator – not from our laws, not from…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump has restored the Defense Department’s name to the Department of War. Largely unnoted in the reporting on the rebrand is the fact that we are at war – and it could go fully kinetic at any time. That’s the conclusion of a riveting webinar…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Big Pharma sure is furious with Robert Kennedy, Jr. The pharmaceutical industry wants him terminated as Health and Human Services Secretary. That was the unmistakable takeaway from Bobby’s hours-long grilling yesterday before the Senate Finance Committee. He was relentlessly attacked by Democratic members for his insistence…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Chinese dictator Xi Jinping just hosted leaders of the world’s most dangerous regimes against the backdrop of a parade through Tiananmen Square testifying to the PRC’s unprecedented military build-up. President Trump declared on social media that Xi, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump took to social media yesterday to respond to the offensively false narrative pushed out by Xi Jinping and his friends in the emerging “Beijing Bloc” about the Chinese Communist Party’s pivotal role in defeating Imperial Japan. In fact, while the U.S. military decisively helped…
For two overarching reasons, no good can come of the summit Communist China convened last weekend. First, there’s a discernable pattern of what happens when Chinese dictator Xi Jinping entertains his counterparts from dangerous regimes. I call it “strategic arson.” Second, in part due to the resulting conflagrations, Xi, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the Iranian…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The White House announced yesterday that President Trump is not proposing to issue six hundred thousand student visas to Chinese nationals. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the Trump administration will instead simply maintain the current number of such PRC “students” at…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump has a potentially fraught meeting today with his new South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae Myung. While the focus will be on trade relations, there will be an ominous elephant in the room: Lee is deeply hostile to the United States and dangerously aligned with…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. In America, there’s a growing awareness of and concern about Islam’s totalitarian code known as Sharia. Its practitioners are increasingly on the march around the world and in this country. For example, in Britain, Sharia-condoned gangs of immigrants are estimated to have raped a million native…