Secure Freedom Minute: The Art of Breaking the Deal

President Trump is the author and preeminent practitioner of The Art of the Deal. The first year of his second presidency has been marked by many of them.  The question is: What happens when the other party to “the deal” lies, cheats or otherwise defeats its “object and purpose”? For example, the Iranian regime is…

Secure Freedom Minute: We Must Learn from, and Respond Appropriately to, Jihadism

Ten years ago today, jihadists launched coordinated and murderous attacks against civilians across Paris. The experience deeply traumatized France – but will be commemorated by a country that has, if anything, become over the past decade even more vulnerable to such Muslim terrorism.  So, unfortunately, is ours.  That’s because, in the intervening years, both France…

Secure Freedom Minute: 80 Years after Nuremberg, We Must Save Persecuted Christians

Eighty-years ago this month, a trial began for top Nazis responsible for perpetrating immense crimes against humanity. Tragically, the systematic murder of 6 million Jews and other victims prosecuted in Nuremberg is today being vastly surpassed by those persecuting Christians around the world.  According to Open Doors USA, 380 million followers of Jesus are currently…

Secure Freedom Minute: Loyalty Oaths Matter – and Must Be Enforced

On Veterans Day, we honor those who have sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic – often giving their lives to do so. An important VictoryCo.org webinar today at 11 a.m. Eastern Time will call attention to the importance of such oaths sworn by…

Secure Freedom Minute: If Elected, You Must Support the Constitution to Serve

A social media satire claimed New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani canceled an oath-taking ceremony requiring him to pledge to “support and uphold” the U.S. Constitution.  Evidently, the event will take place. But it’s no laughing matter that he can’t possibly make such a promise truthfully. In fact, both of Mamdani’s ideologies – Communism and sharia-supremacism…

Secure Freedom Minute: An Early School Test for Comrade Mamdani

Soviet Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin promised, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”  New York Communist-Islamist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reportedly is “all but assured” to entrust the teaching of his city’s children to former Congressman Jamaal Bowman. Such an appointment would be an early indicator of…

Secure Freedom Minute: Christians in Syria Need Protection, Too

Last week, President Trump – to his great credit – resolved to punish “radical Islamists” in Nigeria responsible for the “mass slaughter” of Christians.  In a social media post on October 31st, he declared,“The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries. We stand ready, willing, and…

Secure Freedom Minute: For “Everlasting Peace” with China, Prepare for War

One of the most time-tested principles in international affairs is the prescription “If you want peace, prepare for war.”  Since he became Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth has been clear about the most serious threat against which we must prepare – namely, that posed by the Chinese Communist Party.  The long-awaited National Defense Strategy reportedly…

Secure Freedom Minute: NYC’s Trojan Horseman of the Apocalypse

Today, a tiny fraction of New York City voters will enable a “Trojan horse” to be wheeled into their mayor’s office in the person of the Democratic candidate, Zohran Mamdani.  Worse yet, he may prove to be a horseman of the apocalypse.  A recent, chilling VictoryCo.org webinar documented Mamdani’s ominous personification of the “Red-Green axis”…

Secure Freedom Minute: Donald Trump Stands Up for Christians and Civilization

In what may be the finest hour to date of his two presidencies, Donald Trump has pledged to counter the dire threat to civilization inherent in history’s greatest crime against humanity: the persecution of over 380 million Christians worldwide.  The overwhelming majority of the acts of heavy persecution to which those followers of Jesus are subjected occur…

Secure Freedom Minute: Resume Nuclear Testing Now!

For thirty-three years, the United States has unilaterally refrained from conducting even very-low-yield underground tests of our aging arsenal of nuclear weapons.  By relying on computer simulations and educated guesses – instead of actual, realistic experimentation, we have precluded the sort of modernization in which both Russia and China have engaged relentlessly, surely with the…

Secure Freedom Minute: The CCP is Still at War with America

The meeting between President Trump and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in South Korea is now in the past. Still in the future, and very much in doubt, is what will come of it.  The President has characterized the meeting as “a 12” on a one-to-ten scale. He announced numerous initiatives designed to help: American manufacturers…

Secure Freedom Minute: See Something about Mamdani’s Death Cult, Say Something

A chilling VictoryCo.org briefing yesterday raised an alarm about a mortal threat posed to America’s preeminent metropolis.  According to four eminent experts, the predicted election of Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani would put a man who adheres to several ideologies that call for the destruction of this country in charge of the security of its…

Secure Freedom Minute: Do We “Know the Enemy” – and Ourselves?

The ancient Chinese strategist, Sun Tse, had profound insights about The Art of War, including these:  “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know…

Secure Freedom Minute: Trump’s “Reykjavik Moment”

The China Matrix is a brilliant, and very timely, new book by Lee Smith. It chronicles how successive presidents of both parties and countless leaders of America’s business, political and other elites have subordinated national security and economic strength to the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party, and often their personal enrichment.   Mr. Smith documents…

Secure Freedom Minute: Springing Barghouti Would Foster Jihad, Not Peace

President Trump told Time Magazine that he will soon decide whether to press Israel to release Marwan Barghouti from prison. Doing so is being portrayed as a step towards an alternative to Hamas and consistent with our interests and efforts to promote peace in Gaza and regionally. In fact, unleashing Barghouti – a jihadist serving…

Secure Freedom Minute: A Blow Against “Global Governance,” More Needed Now!

Last week, President Trump struck a blow for freedom against “global governance.” He rallied fifty-seven members of the International Maritime Organization to prevent for at least a year the imposition of “international taxation” on this and other sovereign nations. That’s the very good news.  The bad news is that, to date, the United States has…

Secure Freedom Minute: Is the Party Over for Xi Jinping?

The so-called Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party now underway in Beijing may determine whether its dictator, Xi Jinping, retains absolute control – or is removed from power by the large numbers of Chinese military leaders and those of political factions who have suffered at his hands. Grounds for Xi’s removal include: his relentless…

Secure Freedom Minute: When is a Deal Not a Deal?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  When is a deal not a deal? That question looms large in Israel at a moment when American envoys are pressing their hosts to comply with an agreement to cease fire in Gaza.  That agreement, however, required Hamas to stop hostilities, disarm and give up power.…

Secure Freedom Minute: Put the CCP on “the Ash-heap of History”

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  On Friday, our PresentDangerChina.org webinar stunningly documented the extent to which the Chinese Communist Party has long engaged in devastating economic warfare against America.  It underscored the need, at long last, for a comprehensive and effective U.S. response above and beyond what President Trump has commendably…