DJT Regime Expands Operation Whirlwind

Alt National Park Service, pulling together various items that appeared disconnected in news headlines, warns that Operation Whirlwind is expanding.

An excerpt from their update follows:

Operation Whirlwind has expanded—the Trump administration will now handpick which media outlets can participate in the presidential press pool, the small, rotating group of reporters who relay the president’s daily activities to the public. This breaks decades of precedent, giving the White House more control over which journalists can witness the president’s actions up close and ask him questions. [See timeline items about the White House barring Associated Press from most access to Donald Trump, allegedly because their style guide continues to use “Gulf of Mexico” instead of Trump’s declared “Gulf of America.”]

Operation Whirlwind is also targeting individual citizens. People have been forcibly removed from events for speaking up against the administration. [For an example, see the timeline item about a doctor’s forced removal from a town hall at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.] Everyday Americans who express dissent—whether at public forums, town halls, or even online—are becoming the latest targets of this operation. The crackdown on opposition is no longer limited to journalists and political figures; it is now reaching into communities across the country.

Attorney Ed Martin has also threatened to prosecute any resistance member who is in the way of Elon Musk or his staffers. As the head of the Department of Government Efficiency [which is a subset of a White House IT team, not a government department], Musk and his team have been granted extraordinary authority, with Martin signaling a zero-tolerance policy toward any interference with their activities. This move is a further extension of Operation Whirlwind’s use of the legal system to protect those in power while targeting their opponents.

News media articles across the internet are being forcibly taken down, which we are sure many have noticed. [This is becoming more common. As an example, see the timeline item about the Daily Beast’s report that was online barely long enough for the internet archive to save a copy.] Reports critical of the administration, investigative pieces exposing government overreach, and opinion pieces challenging the legitimacy of Operation Whirlwind are vanishing from websites, raising concerns about censorship at an unprecedented scale. Major news organizations are facing intense legal pressure, with some even forced to shut down sections of their coverage to avoid government retaliation. [This omits mention of some news organizations paying multimillion dollar “settlements” to Donald Trump in a effort to reduce the heat.]