Author Franz Kafka’s name has become synonymous with nightmarish judicial proceedings. Kafkaesque barely begins to describe, however, what federal Judge Emmet Sullivan is doing to Mike Flynn after Attorney General William Barr decided to terminate the general’s prosecution for lying to the FBI.

After Gen. Flynn finally got competent counsel, the case against President Trump’s first National Security Advisor has proven to be not just groundless, but a scandalous abuse of power.

Yet, Emmet Sullivan is refusing to recognize that, as Flynn attorney Sidney Powell puts it, “The case is over.” With the official prosecutor standing down, the judge has appointed his own to continue what is actually the persecution of a heroic three-star general, whom he once asserted could have been tried for treason.

Sidney Powell’s request yesterday for the Appeals Court to remove Judge Sullivan should be approved immediately.

This is Frank Gaffney.

How is it that Chinese Communist Party companies get preferential treatment in our capital markets? Unlike American corporations, they don’t have to disclose their financial condition or material risks – leaving investors unprotected from fraud and needless losses.

Worse yet, American investors may be putting their money into CCP companies that help the regime threaten our country and violate the human rights of Christians and millions of others in China.

It turns out that the CCP’s companies have been able to tap Wall Street for some $3 trillion to date because the Obama administration let them violate our securities laws, accounting standards and regulations. Reporter John Solomon revealed yesterday that in 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden personally helped make that happen.

On Sunday, fifty-one of us wrote securities regulators urging them to end this arrangement. Help us do that at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Opinion polls show an unmistakable trend: Americans are increasingly clear-eyed about and hostile towards Communist China. A new one found that 78% percent said they’d be willing to pay more for products no longer made in the PRC.

So how would they feel about Chinese Communist Party companies getting preferential treatment in our capital markets? Unlike American corporations, they don’t have to disclose their financial condition, governance arrangements or material risks. Wall Street just sends them our money anyway – by some estimates $3 trillion in recent years.

What could possibly go wrong?

Fifty-one former officials, military leaders and other patriots wrote our capital markets’ regulators yesterday urging them to require the CCP to play by our rules. If they don’t, U.S. investors are not only underwriting our enemy, they’re likely to lose their shirts.

This is Frank Gaffney. Learn more at PresentDangerChina.org.

You don’t have to look far to find examples of the malevolence of the Chinese Communist Party. After all, every American has suffered from the virus it deliberately, consciously and malevolently unleashed on all of us.

But the CCP has just exhibited again its contempt and hostility towards us and others. The Chinese government allowed a large booster rocket stage used recently to test part of its ominous manned space program to make an uncontrolled return to earth.

As a result, New York and Los Angeles were two of the American metropolitan areas that were overflown as that huge metal object crashed through the atmosphere. Had it landed on either of them at speeds of over 100 miles per hour, there could have been loss of life and much destruction.

The Chinese Communist Party is our enemy. We can’t pretend otherwise any longer.

This is Frank Gaffney.

At a time when many of us are covering our faces, being “unmasked” might endanger our health. In official Washington, it can have the effect of destroying one’s professional and personal life.

We learned yesterday the names of over thirty Obama Administration officials who appear to have abused their power to unmask – employing intelligence tools to violate General Michael Flynn’s constitutional rights, expose his identity and end his career.

Evidently, this act of political warfare was not an isolated incident. Late in his presidency, Barack Obama vastly expanded the numbers of his subordinates allowed to unmask American citizens. The predictable effect was to enable many officials to do what was done to Mike Flynn, namely, take him out.

We appear now to have the first smoking-gun directly implicating President Obama in the “Obamagate” scandal. There are likely more to come.

This is Frank Gaffney.

We’ve witnessed lately the release of a slew of formerly classified documents. Some of them have shed clarifying light on a long-running campaign to thwart Donald Trump’s election and undermine his presidency.

Mr. Trump calls the scandal thus exposed “Obamagate” and asserts that it “makes Watergate look small time.”

The question that defined that earlier, notorious abuse of power must now be asked of Mr. Trump’s predecessor: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”

The recent document dump suggests that Barack Obama was aware of – and, therefore, complicit in – a plot to defeat Donald Trump at the polls and, failing that, to ensure he would not long occupy the White House.

If that proves to be true, Obamagate must end as did Watergate – with the man ultimately responsible and his senior subordinates driven from public life in disgrace.

This is Frank Gaffney.

When President Trump learned recently that American servicemen and women and other federal government employees’ retirement funds were about to be invested in Chinese Communist Party companies, he said, “This needs to stop.” And yesterday, his order was faithfully executed by no fewer than three senior subordinates – National Economic Council Chair Lawrence Kudlow, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia.

The message they collectively sent to the board that manages the Thrift Savings Plan could not have been more clear: Chinese companies are unacceptably risky. Some enable malevolent CCP activities that repress the Chinese people and threaten ours. And none conform to our nation’s requirements for transparency, accountability and disclosure.

The Gipper’s worthy successor, Donald Trump, has sent a powerful message to Beijing. And Wall Street is on notice, too.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The US House of Representatives has become of late a ghost house. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ruled out its reconvening on the grounds that the so-called COVID-19 pandemic has made doing so unsafe. This arrangement allows her effectively to dictate legislation, rather than allow the Congress as a whole to participate.

Another consequence has been to prevent opportunities for needed bipartisanship in response to the threats posed to our nation by the Chinese Communist Party. That effect was on display when House Republicans tried to forge a task force on China with their Democratic counterparts, only to be rebuffed.

Apparently, Speaker Pelosi and her caucus are determined to do nothing that would advance the country’s interests if it might reflect well on President Trump. Such virulent partisanship is always reprehensible. But it is unacceptable in time of war – like now.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday’s release of sensitive documents in Washington provides proof at last of a mortal threat to our Republic – namely, the weaponization of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as instruments of the Left’s domestic political warfare.

Any objective observer would find appalling the now-documented, deliberate entrapment and take-down of President Trump’s first National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General Mike Flynn. Worse yet, the evidence suggests that President Obama, as well as many of his senior subordinates, were involved in – or at least informed about – a larger effort to use government powers to prevent Mr. Trump’s election and, failing that, to abort his presidency.

Scarcely less ominous are new revelations confirming that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has systematically engaged in abuses of power, too – rather than preventing those of others.

Now that we know, those responsible must be held accountable.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Larry Fink runs Wall Street’s 800-ton gorilla, a company called BlackRock. It started 2020 with $7.4 trillion under management. And Fink makes no secret of using that financial clout to advance his hard left, post-America globalist agenda.

Specifically, Fink is forcing the many companies in which BlackRock invests to adopt his so-called ESG priorities. That basically means conforming to the radical environment, social justice and governance schemes espoused by the lunatic Green New Deal.

The one exception Fink makes is for investing in Communist China. He’s indifferent to the CCP’s abysmal record with respect to “E”, “S” and “G.” And Chinese companies are very risky bets at the moment, too.

Larry Fink’s firm manages federal retirees’ pension funds and wants them invested in China. Donald Trump wisely does not. Who will prevail? The anti-Trump globalist or the America First President?

Trump must.

This is Frank Gaffney.