The President's Daily Brief
February 24th, 2025: Twin Islamist Terror Attacks Strike Europe & Trump Shakes Up Military Leadership
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: Islamist terror attacks rock Europe, with a brutal stabbing in Berlin and a violent spree in France, raising concerns about growing threats across the continent. President Trump shakes up the military, firing Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and appointing Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as his replacement. Israel halts the release of Palestinian prisoners after Hamas stages what Prime Minister Netanyahu calls “humiliating ceremonies” during hostage handovers. And in today's Back of the Brief, Mexican authorities arrest two high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel, just days before the Trump administration officially designates it and other Mexican gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the key events happening in Europe related to terrorism?
We'll start today's show with a pair of deadly Islamist terror attacks in Europe this weekend. A brutal stabbing in Berlin and a violent spree in France underscore the growing threat across the continent. Later in the show, President Trump shakes up his military leadership, removing Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, known as C.Q.
Brown, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and appointing retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Kane as his top U.S. military officer.
Plus, just days after Hamas delivered the remains of the wrong person to Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu has announced a delay in the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners until the terror group ends the quote humiliating ceremonies staged during hostage handovers. Und in heute's Back of the Brief.
Mexican authorities have arrested two high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel just days before the Trump administration designated it and other Mexican gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. It's almost like they've known where the cartel leaders have been all this time, but didn't have any motivation to arrest them. But perhaps that just makes me sound cynical. All right.
First up, today's PDB Spotlight. This weekend, Europe was rocked by a pair of Islamist terror attacks that highlight an alarming trend of increasing violence across the continent. The first attack occurred on Friday evening in Berlin, near the Brandenburg Gate, at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
The victim, a 30-year-old Spanish man, was approached from behind by a 19-year-old Syrian refugee, who stabbed him in the neck. The victim suffered life-threatening injuries and doctors had to place him in an artificial coma. Glücklicherweise ist er seitdem stabilisiert und ist nicht mehr in einer kritischen Situation.
Der Verbrecher, der in Deutschland als unabhängiger Miner im Jahr 2023 herrschte, hatte einen Koran, einen Betrug und ein Stück Papier mit Koranversen und dem Datum des Angriffs auf es geschrieben. Bewerber glauben, dass der Motiv für den Angriff religiös war. Oh, denkst du? Mit Behörden, die beweisen, dass der Verbrecher für mehrere Wochen planen wollte, die Juden zu töten.
Die Begriffe bauen sich auf. Dies wurde von seinen Statementen an die Polizei und der Wahl des Memorial als sein Ziel bestätigt. Einen Tag später, am Sonntag, gab es einen zweiten Angriff in Mulhaus, das ist eine Stadt in Ostfranz auf der Grenze mit Deutschland und Switzerland. Der Angriffspunkt war ein lokaler Markt.
Es geschah um 4 Uhr, als ein 37-jähriger Algerischer auf einen Stabbruch ging, schreitend Al-Akbar, mehrere Male. Well, yeah, that again seems like a clue regarding motivation. The assailant killed a 69-year-old Portuguese man who was attempting to intervene and injured two police officers, both of whom are now in serious condition.
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Chapter 2: How is President Trump changing military leadership?
Chapter 3: Why is Israel delaying the release of Palestinian prisoners?
Mexican authorities have arrested two high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel just days before the Trump administration designated it and other Mexican gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. It's almost like they've known where the cartel leaders have been all this time, but didn't have any motivation to arrest them. But perhaps that just makes me sound cynical. All right.
Chapter 4: How are Mexican authorities dealing with cartel leaders?
First up, today's PDB Spotlight. This weekend, Europe was rocked by a pair of Islamist terror attacks that highlight an alarming trend of increasing violence across the continent. The first attack occurred on Friday evening in Berlin, near the Brandenburg Gate, at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
The victim, a 30-year-old Spanish man, was approached from behind by a 19-year-old Syrian refugee, who stabbed him in the neck. The victim suffered life-threatening injuries and doctors had to place him in an artificial coma. Glücklicherweise ist er seitdem stabilisiert und ist nicht mehr in einer kritischen Situation.
Der Verbrecher, der in Deutschland als unabhängiger Miner im Jahr 2023 herrschte, hatte einen Koran, einen Betrug und ein Stück Papier mit Koranversen und dem Datum des Angriffs auf es geschrieben. Bewerber glauben, dass der Motiv für den Angriff religiös war. Oh, denkst du? Mit Behörden, die beweisen, dass der Verbrecher für mehrere Wochen planen wollte, die Juden zu töten.
Die Begriffe bauen sich auf. Dies wurde von seinen Statementen an die Polizei und der Wahl des Memorial als sein Ziel bestätigt. Einen Tag später, am Sonntag, gab es einen zweiten Angriff in Mulhaus, das ist eine Stadt in Ostfranz auf der Grenze mit Deutschland und Switzerland. Der Angriffspunkt war ein lokaler Markt.
Es geschah um 4 Uhr, als ein 37-jähriger Algerischer auf einen Stabbruch ging, schreitend Al-Akbar, mehrere Male. Well, yeah, that again seems like a clue regarding motivation. The assailant killed a 69-year-old Portuguese man who was attempting to intervene and injured two police officers, both of whom are now in serious condition.
The suspect was already on France's terror watch list and had been under house arrest after being ordered to leave the country following his release from a detention center in June. Now, if this sounds wacky, let me just read that to you again.
The suspect was already on France's terror watch list and had been under house arrest after being ordered to leave the country following his release from a detention center in June. The French government is treating the attack as an act of Islamist terrorism. Well done, Poirot. President Emmanuel Macron was quick to condemn the attack, calling it without any doubt an act of Islamist terrorism.
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Chapter 5: What impact did recent terror attacks have on European politics?
The assailants' background and actions mirror a disturbing pattern of individuals linked to terrorist activity, underlining the challenges, of course, authorities face in preventing such attacks. Nun, wenn Sie den Präsidenten-Daily Brief gehört haben, werden Sie wissen, dass diese Fälle keine isolierten Ereignisse sind.
Wie wir in den vergangenen Monaten gesehen haben, werden Terrorangriffe in Europa immer häufiger werden. Vor einem Monat führte ein afghanischer Migrant sein Auto in eine Gruppe in München, um eine Mutter und ihr Kind zu töten, und um mehrere Tausende mehr zu verletzen. Just this January another Afghan national killed a two-year-old boy and a forty-one-year-old man in a knife attack.
In Dezember, a Saudi refugee drove an SUV into a Christmas market crowd in Magdeburg, killing six and injuring hundreds. Another attack by an Islamist in Munich in September. There was another by a Syrian asylum seeker in August in Solingen. Another by an Afghan refugee in Mannheim in May. Well, you get the point. I suppose you're beginning to see a pattern here.
The timing of these attacks couldn't be more significant, as they came just days before Germans were set to head to the polls for snap elections, which were held yesterday. The rise in violence has fueled the growth of right-wing anti-immigration parties. And the results of yesterday's elections in Germany reflected that fact.
The conservative CDU-CSU alliance secured the largest vote share of 28.7%, positioning their leader, Friedrich Merz, to potentially become the next Chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz. The far-right AFD achieved a historical result with 19.8%, making them the second largest party. The ruling Social Democrats, SPD, suffered their worst defeat since post-World War II with only 16.4%. All right.
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Coming up next, President Trump shakes up his military leadership and Prime Minister Netanyahu delays the release of Palestinian prisoners until Hamas ends its, quote, humiliating ceremonies during hostage handovers. I'll be right back. Hey, Mike Baker hier.
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Chapter 6: Why did President Trump fire General Charles Q. Brown?
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In a shake-up at the Pentagon, President Trump fired Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, known as C.Q. Brown, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday in a move rooted in concerns by the administration that the military was increasingly fixated on diversity initiatives at the expense of its combat readiness.
Brown, ein Vier-Star-Fighter-Pilot und nur der zweite schwarze General, der jemals die Post beherrscht, steigte die US-Militärstrategie in pivoten Theatern, von den Frontlinien der Ukraine bis zum volatilen Ausflug des Mittleren Osten in den letzten 16 Monaten während seines Tenors. Trump beantragte die Entscheidung via Truth Social, mit dem Dank für C.Q. Browns über vier Jahrhunderte Service.
while signaling a resolute pivot towards his administration's, quote, America-first strategy. Now, this sweeping Pentagon shake-up, orchestrated in tandem with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, also a critic of what he derives as the, quote, woke drift in military policy, forms the latest chapter in a broader campaign to reorient the armed forces squarely toward warfighting.
Hegseth, der lange gefragt hat, ob militärische Leiter für Merit oder Rasse ausgewählt werden sollen, hat früher für Browns Entfernung gebeten. In seinem Buch, The War on Warriors, hat Hegseth argumentiert, dass jeder General, der die DEI priorisiert, oder die Diversität, Qualität und Inklusion-Programme, die Tür zeigen sollte.
Browns Entfernung ist nur ein Element in einer Kaskade von hochwertigen Pentagon-Entfernungen, die auch Lisa Franchetti, die erste Frau-Führerin der Armee, sowie der Vize-Chef der Air Force, James Slife, sowie einige der Top-Militär-Legal-Advisoren, nur aus guter Bedeutung. In allem wurden sechs Pentagon-Affiziere gefangen.
In der folgenden Reorganisation wurde Admiral James Kilby als Aktionschef der Naval-Operationen verabschiedet. So, with C.Q. Brown out, who is going to be the next top military officer? Well, I'm glad you asked. Trump took to Truth Social to announce his intention to nominate retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Kane as Brown's successor.
Praising Kane as a, quote, real general, not a television general, Trump contrasted him with what he deems ineffective military leadership. And that's a sentiment he echoed just days earlier at a Miami summit, where the president lamented, and how often do you hear people lamenting, quote, end quote.
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