Matthew Pottinger served as the Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump. A former China-based Wall Street Journal reporter turned Marine intelligence officer, he played an outsized role in Mr. Trump’s efforts to defeat the CCP virus and the regime that unleashed it on the world. On Sunday, Mr. Pottinger publicly shared lessons learned in…
Members of Congress and the public are understandably puzzled about why the U.S. Capitol remains a razor-wired, heavily defended Green Zone. It seems to be an expensive Maginot Line against a wildly exaggerated external threat to American democracy. The real peril to our constitutional Republic is now an impending inside job. In both the House…
Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s popular TV program, War Room Pandemic, has an engaging theme song. Its refrain is “Let’s take down the CCP.” The Chinese Communist Party has a variation on that tagline – “Let’s take down the USA.” Unfortunately, the CCP’s version isn’t just a catchy jingle. It’s a strategic policy, one that…
Joe Biden will tell fellow globalists today that “America is back.” His Munich security conference audience will interpret, and welcome, that as code for repudiating the policies Donald Trump called “America First.” Instead, we’ll be “back” to the approach Barack Obama called “leading from behind.” Call it “the Great Reset.” That’s actually the name of…
President Joe Biden has given the Chinese Communist Party a free-pass to engage in genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Western China. In a televised CNN townhall, he dismissed it as a manifestation of a different “cultural norm.” Genocide would be more accurately described as a “CCP norm.” Throughout the Party’s sordid…
I host a television program called “Securing America” that’s a kind of owner’s manual for protecting the country we love. It’s first instruction is “Don’t let radical leftists enact legislation that crushes freedom.” One such bill is being fast-tracked by congressional Democrats. They misleadingly call it the “For the People Act,” but it’s better known…
Donald Trump’s defense gets its turn in his second Senate impeachment trial today. The former president’s lawyers are expected to focus on the unconstitutionality of the proceeding and the protections afforded by the First Amendment to free political speech. The rest of us should be focused on a subtext of the prosecution’s case that was…
America has a problem. Its most dangerous enemy ever, the Chinese Communist Party, is using virtually every available means to destroy us – including fomenting problems in our elections and internal strife in their aftermath. Our President has a problem, too. He’s contracted the “Biden China Syndrome” and either wants to appease the CCP, or…
There’s a discernable pattern emerging in the Biden presidency. For example, Mr. Biden legitimated the World Health Organization by reversing Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from an entity clearly in the Chinese Communist Party’s pocket. He also said federal employees can’t describe Covid-19 as “the China virus.” And, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says there’s “an…
In Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, the former President is not the only one in the dock. So are tens of millions of us if the House prosecutors can successfully implicate Mr. Trump’s supporters in his alleged seditious conspiracy. After all, the stated purpose of Democratic partisans is to prevent Donald Trump from regaining the…
It’s said that, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” In the case of Joe Biden, the principle should apply as well to people who live in White Houses. President Biden says his predecessor should not have access to classified intelligence briefings, a courtesy normally extended to former Commanders-in-Chief. Mr. Biden’s stated justification…
Yesterday, President Joe Biden used a foreign policy address to insist that “America is back.” But back to what? Based on the contents of the rest of the speech and his performance to date the answer appears to be: Back to the failed Obama-Biden administration’s policies which made it better to be America’s enemy than…
President Joe Biden lays out today his foreign policy priorities. At the moment, they seem to be characterized by one principle: Not Trump. Donald Trump opposed the Chinese Communist Party’s “people’s war” against this country and its “genocide” against Uyghur Muslims. Will a President Biden, deeply compromised by the CCP, return to the Obama practice…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Of President Biden’s many problematic initiatives aimed at nullifying the Trump legacy, his rebooting of U.S. Middle East policy is particularly ominous. Its hallmarks are: promoting the Palestinians over Israel; dissing the United Arab Emirates that made peace with the Jewish State; and, worst of all,…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. On Sunday, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” program warned that the Chinese Communist Party is hoovering up our DNA and other personal medical data. By some estimates, eighty percent of us have already had such information ripped off by PRC companies that are obliged to share it…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Americans were horrified to learn in the early days of the Chinese Communist Party-induced pandemic that our country is acutely dependent on China for protective gear and medicines. Now we’re discovering the PRC supplies another determinant of our public health and safety: the U.S. electric grid.…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. A prominent Chinese influence operator named Di Dongcheng recently bragged that China’s “old friends” on Wall Street had for decades ensured that U.S. government policy suited Beijing. He relished the prospect that, after a rough patch with Donald Trump, America would once again be submissive to…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, President Joe Biden placed “climate change at the center of our domestic, national security and foreign policy.” The clear implication is that the very real – and growing – threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the mullahs of Iran are…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The bloom may be coming off the rose of the Biden-Harris presidency. Or maybe it’s just buyer’s remorse as millions of Americans who voted for Joe Biden – and others whose votes against him weren’t accurately counted – are confronting the reality that he’s certainly not…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Among the most insidious legacies of Barack Obama’s presidency was the wrecking operation he conducted against the U.S. military. It was defunded, disarmed and subjected to social experimentation without regard for the adverse consequences for our troops’ warfighting capabilities, readiness and morale. Tragically, Joe Biden is…