Source: The UnPopulist
by Robert Tracinski
“The administration’s crackdown on criticism of Charlie Kirk was its big trial balloon to see how far it could get in characterizing opposing views as incitement to political violence. While its attempt to keep Kimmel off the air — not even for criticizing Kirk directly, but for accusing the ‘MAGA gang’ of trying to ‘score political points’ off his death, which was undoubtedly true — was unsuccessful, other targets proved more vulnerable. … Trump rather quickly forgot about Charlie Kirk as his pretext for this clampdown. Within days, he moved on to the idea that criticism of him — Trump — is inherently illegal. … All of this is now being codified in a presidential directive known in the White House by the somewhat pretentious acronym NSPM-7, because it is Trump’s seventh ‘National Security Presidential Memorandum.'” (10/30/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-new-directive-could-treat