How Donald Trump could shut down The Intercept -- declare it terrorist
How Donald Trump could shut down The Intercept The Intercept From: no-reply@emails.theintercept.com To: Mark M Giese Fri, Feb 20 2026 at 10:02 AM Mark M– Last September, Donald Trump issued NSPM-7, a new directive that could pose an existential threat to any nonprofit organization that dares to challenge him or his agenda. And that includes nonprofit investigative news outlets like The Intercept. First, a quick primer on what NSPM-7 says: Anyone espousing a sweeping range of political beliefs that conflict with the MAGA agenda should be considered a potential terrorist. NSPM-7 then instructs the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces, the Treasury Department, and the IRS to pursue criminal probes. If this sounds like the action of an authoritarian police state, that’s because it is. And yet the corporate media has almost entirely ignored NSPM-7. The Intercept is digging deep to expose how this draconian directive is being implemented — and at the same time, we must prepare ourselves f...
