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Created: 2025-07-21 22:31:39 UTC

The White House didn't "take control" of the press pool - they seized the megaphone of democracy to silence dissent. When AP refused to rebrand geography for Trump's vanity on February 11, 2025, they became the first casualty of this engineered "Gulf of America" truth purge. Now every journalist knows: report facts at your own peril.  

The admin's April X court loss exposed their retaliation playbook, yet they've kept AP banned through appeals while expanding censorship. Pentagon escorts for reporters (May 25) and NPR's eviction (July 17) prove this isn't about "fair access" - it's about replacing journalism with state-sanctioned propaganda. They learned from firing pandemic whistleblowers: permanent exclusion beats temporary criticism.  

Democracy dies when truth becomes a government-curated service.


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