Reader’s Links for May 20, 2025

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

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  3. It Looks Like Jack Smith Could Soon Be in Serious Trouble
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/it-looks-like-jack-smith-may-soon-be/
    May. 20, 2025 10:30 am

    Guest post by Joe Hoft, republished with permission.
    Jack Smith returning to Washington DC after a hard week of work manufacturing charges against President Trump in Florida. (TGP photo)
    Jack Smith’s days outside of jail may be numbered.

    In December 2023 it was reported that Jack Smith had a terrible record not only in the US but more recently overseas in Europe.

    Larry Johnson wrote in mid-December 2023 that a whistleblower complaint was filed with the Department of Justice Inspector General’s Office on November 28 alleging that Jack Smith, the Special Prosecutor pursuing Donald Trump, was engaged in an extortion scheme while he was working at the International Court of Justice.

    These serious accusations were reported at The Gateway Pundit but ignored by Big Media outlets.

    Patrick Byrnes reported on this complaint as well. Byrnes shared:

    The superb 151-page whistleblower complaint (attached) speaks for itself. Three allegations to take from it:

    Jack Smith is the current Special Counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on two grounds, one related to J6 (for which I take full responsibility) and the other related to the “crime” of being an ex-President with an active Department of Energy clearance possessing classified materials. Before pursuing such novel legal theories as are expressed in those indictments, Jack Smith was the US prosecutor in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where Jack Smith was a blackmailer.
    Jack was sending henchmen to Eastern European to convey the following message to various parties (both innocent and perhaps not-so-innocent): We know that during the Yugoslavian Civil War you murdered some people, Jack Smith is going to indict you unless you put $X in a suitcase for me to carry back to Jack so your problems go away.
    $X = from $400,000 to $9 million (bribes of $7 million and $9 million were paid through Bitcoin, not suitcases).
    Jack sought a $100 million bribe from a head of state who refused payment and is now in prison.
    We learned of these allegations because of a passel of European whistleblowers who ultimately wrote superbly detailed affidavits, provided texts and financial records, etc. Read the 151 pages with exhibits yourselves. I am no lower, but from where I sit, Jack Smith looks royally shtuped.

    In April 2022 (18 months ago) this information with supporting documentation was provided by these whistleblowers to the DOJ in lengthy phone calls.
    One of the key whistleblowers contacted the DOJ in Washington DC to report it directly. Nothing happened. Then he called the US Embassy in Spain, who also did nothing. But then he received a phone call from the DOJ’s Alan Tieger. That main whistleblower then had a phone call with Alan Tieger, thinking it was someone to whom he could safely bring this information. Initially he thought Tieger was with the DOJ -SDNY (Southern District of New York).
    Alan Tieger spent the first few minutes of the call trying to get the whistleblowers to recant, and when they refused, reluctantly walked through their allegations and evidence. We know this because the 90-minute Zoom call was recorded (and is dynamite to hear, and which, of course, we have).
    Alan Tieger then buried the matter. This is likely explained by the fact that Alan Tieger turns out not to have been from DOJ Internal Affairs, nor was he in the SDNY: he actually was in the Hague with Jack Sith. In fact, Alan Tieger is a man who spent his career carrying Jack Smith’s luggage around the DOJ, and he has since replaced Jack as the American prosecutor at the ICC. So while the whistleblowers thought they were blowing the whistle on Jack Smith, they were tricked into doing so to Jack Smith’s own DOJ-butt-boy.

    I infer:

    Attorney General Merick Garland learned about this material 18 months ago, and he (or Lisa Monaco, the Littlefinger of Garland’s DOJ) summoned Jack back to Washington, DC to tell him something along the following lines: Listen you SOB, we know that you have been blackmailing people over in Europe and we are going to put you away for 30 years…. or you are going to come home and prosecute Donald Trump. We don’t care how far-fetched the legal theories, you are going to indict him and hound him to thwart his return to office.

    This explains why Jack Smith has indicted for possessing classified materials a man with an active DoE clearance, and for whatever that man did on J6 that no one can really explain.

    Here is the complaint.

    Finalized Complaint COMPRESSED by Joe Ho on Scribd

    This case was never addressed while the Biden regime was in office. Rumors are that this case has not been forgotten and that Jack Smith’s days may be numbered.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/it-looks-like-jack-smith-may-soon-be/

  4. CARTEL HUNTING SEASON: Two Top Mexican Federal Officials Murdered in the Capital, President Claudia Shinbaum Confirms
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/cartel-hunting-season-two-top-mexican-federal-officials/
    May. 20, 2025 2:20 pm
    Visibly shaken, Claudia Sheinbaum announces the murders of two of ther top aides.

    While President Claudia Sheinbaum continues to refuse permission for US forces to go after the Cartels in their territory, and does not act against them, the criminal organizations have opened a veritable hunting season of politicians.

    2024 saw a record 661 attacks on people and facilities related to politics, and this year also maintains the horrific pace.

    A mayoral candidate in the southern state of Guerrero; the mayor of Cotija in Michoacán state; the mayor of Guerrero’s capital, Chilpancingo, was decapitated; a high-ranking the governing party, was shot and killed in Veracruz; a female mayoral candidate and her daughter gunned down in a livestream – the list goes on.

    Now, the hitlist is getting closer and close to the president: a visibly shaken Sheinbaum confirmed today that Ximena Guzmán and José Muñoz, her secretary and advisor, were murdered in Mexico City.

    Watch: Sheinbaum is informed of the murders, as she was about to release a report on ‘the decrease in crime incidence’.

    En plena mañanera Harfuch le informa a Sheinbaum del asesinato en Calzada de Tlalpan de la secretaria particular y el asesor de la Jefa de Gobierno Clara Brugada !

    Mientras presentaban un reporte sobre la baja de la incidencia delictiva .

    pic.twitter.com/Mqk0w1Hm7l

    — Mireya Toto Gtz (@mitoguti) May 20, 2025

    Top Sheinbaum aides, Ximena Guzmán and José Muñoz were killed today in Mexico city.

    Watch: Sheinbaum confirms the murders (English translation below)

    #Urgente | Sujetos en una moto asesinan a la secretaria particular y un asesor de la Jefa de Gobierno de la CDMX, Clara Brugada, cerca de Metro Xola sobre la Calzada de Tlalpan.

    La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum prometió investigaciones y que no habrá impunidad. pic.twitter.com/w8Spzr25Dx

    — Buzos de la Noticia (@BuzosNoticias) May 20, 2025

    “It is very relevant, that is why we were communicating with the secretary. We had information, but it has already been confirmed. The head of government, Clara Brugada, just issued an informational card.

    The government of Mexico City reports that unfortunately, the personal secretary of the head of government, Jimena Guzmán, and José Muñoz, an advisor to the head of government, lost their lives during a direct attack on Calzada de Tlalpan and Napoleon Street in the Moderna neighborhood of the Benito Juárez borough.

    Personnel from the Citizen Security Secretariat and the Attorney General’s Office, both of Mexico City, with the support of the government of Mexico.

    From the very beginning, Omar gave instructions to ensure they have all the support from the National Intelligence Center, from the Subsecretariat of Intelligence of the Secretariat, and of course from the Secretariat of Defense and Navy, all the support that the head of government needs for the investigation to get to the bottom of this situation, that there is no impunity.

    With the support of the government of Mexico, they are already conducting the corresponding investigations to determine the motive of the aggression. Additionally, they are analyzing the surveillance cameras in the area to identify the probable culprits who are known to have traveled on a motorcycle, the aggressors. There will be no impunity; those responsible will be arrested and will have to face justice. From the government of Mexico City, we send our condolences.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/cartel-hunting-season-two-top-mexican-federal-officials/

  5. A 3-fer from J.E. Dyer:

    A note on Trump and Qatar (fish or cut bait edition)
    On Trump’s foreign policy moves, a guide for the perplexed.

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a-note-on-trump-and-qatar-fish-or-cut-bait-edition/
    ……..
    An eye to the main chance: The world that’s starting right now
    In structural failure, opportunity.

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/an-eye-to-the-main-chance-the-world-thats-starting-right-now/
    ……….
    Trumpschlacht debuts with vivid energy
    Trump plays his own game.

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com

    • “I wouldn’t do everything the way Trump does (just call Witkoff Agent 86 and excuse him from the diplomatic drama, though of course not from life itself), but Trump isn’t driving the Titanic into the iceberg.”
      [My emphasis, though I don’t endorse her “of course”.]

        • She has also said:
          Witkoff is probably the worst-messaging diplomat in the modern age. He’s awful. But he’s been awful since the middle of January and the worst predictions keep not coming true.
          – and –
          Witkoff makes alarming noises every time he opens his mouth…

          ~~~~~~~

          No, we keep praying AND get involved. It’s like the campaign for accountability from Harvard. A lot of work, but worth a try.

          Israelis won’t do it. For them he’s Cyrus, who’s celebrated on Purim: THE HERO. They rationalize away every issue with excruciating logic. They’re experts in close debate because that’s the system used for Talmud study.

          Like MAGA cultists who can master facts and debate convincingly.
          Phooey.

          We must grab PT’s attention. He may not do anything differently – he’ll never admit his own errors in judgement – but we can get him to know how we feel.

          Do the usual: write and call our Congress-critters (red states only). Send our concerns directly to the WH. (I send postcards, less bother for security.) Never use email – that’s just redirected to the donor site.

          The biggest, of course: Get the attention of Big Money Guys. Political operatives, corporate leaders, recognized names. If you don’t know anybody like that, ask around. Somebody is likely to know somebody.

  6. “Treasonous Thugs” – President Trump Says People Who Controlled Joe Biden’s Autopen Committed Treason, Calls For Severe Consequences
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/treasonous-thugs-president-trump-says-people-who-took/
    May. 20, 2025 5:00 pm

    President Trump on Tuesday said the people who ran Joe Biden’s autopen committed treason.

    “Joe Biden was not for Open Borders, he never talked about Open Borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, can flow into our Country at will. It wasn’t his idea to Open the Border, and almost destroy our Country, and cost us Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to get criminals out of our Country, and go through the process we are going through now. It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the Autopen. They stole the Presidency of the United States, and put us in Great Danger. This is TREASON at the Highest Level! They did it to destroy our Country. The Joe Biden that everybody knew would never allow drug dealers, gang members, and the mentally insane to come into our Country totally unchecked and unvetted. All anyone has to do is look up his record. Something very severe should happen to these Treasonous Thugs that wanted to destroy our Country, but couldn’t, because I came along. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump said on Truth Social.

    The Oversight Project recently released an analysis of Joe Biden’s pardons for family members, Dr. Tony Fauci, General Milley, J6 Committee members, and Gerald Lundergan.

    Joe Biden also issued a blanket pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, after promising not to intervene in the Justice Department’s prosecution of tax and gun crimes.

    On January 19, 2025, just one day before Trump was set to be sworn in as the 47th US President, Joe Biden issued a flurry of pardons to his family members, Fauci, and others.

    The Oversight Project determined that all of the pardons issued on January 19 had the same exact Biden autopen signature.

    The Oversight Project also has gathered every document they could find with Biden’s signature – ALL used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that he was dropping out of the 2024 election.

    Joe Biden was so incapacitated that someone else was in charge of his autopen. Biden’s pardons are now under investigation.

    DOJ Pardon Attorney Ed Martin said last Tuesday that the Justice Department is reviewing Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons amid the growing autopen scandal.

    Autopen Update
    We analyzed Biden’s Jan. 19, 2025 “pardons” for:

    -Biden Family Members
    -Anthony Fauci
    -General Milley
    -J6 Committee
    -Gerald Lundergan

    They all have the same exact Biden autopen signature https://t.co/jc6mkx37il pic.twitter.com/8VeBDwLNv7

    — Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) March 11, 2025

    House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) this week revealed in a bombshell interview with Jason Chaffetz that his committee has identified the shadowy White House staffers responsible for wielding President Joe Biden’s infamous autopen during a period when Biden was “clearly in mental decline.”

    We think we’ve identified who the staffers are. Jason, you all have done great work with that over at Heritage Oversight. We’re going to bring everyone we believe was involved in any role in the use of the autopen. We’re going to invite them to come in for a transcribed interview. If they decline, they will receive a subpoena and face a full-blown deposition.

    Click through to see the video

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/treasonous-thugs-president-trump-says-people-who-took/

    (Richard: Things are going to get real interesting as this plays out, it they can prove he didn’t OK the Pardons they are invalid and this will bring into question about the legality of everything that was signed by the autopen during Bidens administration. Things are going to get real interesting over the coming months.)