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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The Port of Wilmington’s Board of Directors recently voted unanimously to turn over management of that strategically located facility to a billionaire Iraqi family named Jafar. One of its most prominent members is Dr. Jafar Dhai Jafar. Fifteen years ago, he was considered such a threat that U.S. troops liberating Iraq were directed to capture or kill him.
The reason why? Jafar Jafar was Saddam Hussein’s nuclear bomb-maker.
The inadvisability of having the Jafars anywhere near an American port is further heightened by the fact that their company, Gulftainer, also has partnered with Rostec, a Russian state-owned weapons and technology company that exports the Club-K Missile Launch System. That’s a cruise missile-launcher concealed in what looks like an ordinary shipping container.
Fortunately, Rep. Duncan Hunter has urged President Trump to direct a national security review of this transaction. Obviously, it’s long overdue.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement yesterday that he will not seek reelection offers congressional Republicans an opportunity to pull out of the political death-spiral that imperils their majority and invites the impeachment of President Trump.
The question is: Will the House GOP seize the opportunity to excite and engage voters indispensable to such outcomes? Or will it alienate them further, ensuring that the base stays home – with predictably devastating results?
That choice will be determined by whether the Republican caucus tries to fob off on its base another establishment politician, presumably drawn from the ranks of Ryan’s lieutenants. If, instead, in the days ahead the House GOP embraces as its next leader an authentic conservative with passion, energy and, most importantly, Make America Great Again principles, they will give the base a reason to turn out – and prevail.
Jim Jordan for Speaker.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
President Trump wants to punish Bashar Assad’s regime for its alleged role in the latest, murderous chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians. The temptation is to lash out with more tactical retaliation against military targets implicated in such operations.
If successful, that would convey resolve and impose costs. The trouble is that, like the response itself, the signals thus sent – let alone the effects – are likely to be very short-lived. Assad and his Russian, Iranian, Hezbollah and Turkish partners will discount such attacks, and perhaps even be emboldened by them.
What is clearly required is a broader, more strategic and enduring response. That could be conveyed by three initiatives: First, provide military and political assistance to the Kurds in the region. Second, support Israel as it defends its vital interests – and ours – in Syria. Third, treat Turkey as an ally no more.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Last night, Fox News host Laura Ingraham issued a powerful warning about how some Americans are steadily losing the freedom of speech. Specifically, she described what amounts to the censoring of conservatives by giant Internet companies that long ago lost any claim to being neutral purveyors of information.
Ms. Ingraham’s show aired on the eve of a double-feature appearance by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill, starting today. Facebook is one of the most aggressive perpetrators of the selective dissemination of information to disadvantage those on the Right, while favoring Leftists and their Sharia-supremacist allies.
Most legislators are single-mindedly focused on another Facebook scandal – one that involves that company’s business model built on deliberately abusing customers’ privacy.
No less ominous are politicized corporate restrictions on speech, and Zuckerberg must also be held accountable for imposing them.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
With John Bolton’s installation today as the President’s new National Security Advisor, Donald Trump has taken a huge stride toward putting in place a team to help him protect our country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Arguably, the most insidious of such enemies – whom he explicitly promised to defeat back on August 15, 2016 – are adherents to the toxic Islamic ideology they call Sharia.
Ever since, Mr. Trump, has been roundly attacked for his clarity about this threat and his determination to vanquish it. Ditto Amb. Bolton.
Now, those enemies are desperate to keep another robust opponent of Sharia-supremacism from joining the Trump Cabinet. Ironically, by raising objections on these grounds to Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo’s confirmation, they will find the American people still want the truth about jihadism – and leaders who will counter it decisively.
Bring on that debate.
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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
President Trump is doubling down on his campaign to keep Communist China from massively ripping off U.S. intellectual property. With good reason. This may be our last chance to prevent hostile Chinese behavior from evolving into a full-blown conflict between the two countries.
Two decades of such “unrestricted” – and unreciprocated – warfare against us has left China approaching the point where it can engage in highly competitive innovation in its own right, including in cutting-edge technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Beijing is translating such breakthroughs into ominous power-projecting military systems and capabilities. It’s also accelerating efforts to undermine our financial might by displacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
So, we all have a stake in Donald Trump’s bid to wield America’s remaining leverage to dissuade China from continuing, let alone intensifying, its war against us. Let’s pray it works.
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