But then doesn't it make the previous-page (i.e. here) info available to the destination page? The reason for this OpSec rule is to force people to paste the URL manually into the area at the top of the page. Don't defeat it!
If nobody's dead, then it's all legal. That's the current law. Internal propaganda is legal, for the black hats and for the white hats too.
If this is true, it's yet again Trump using the bad guys' system against them rather than immediately dismantling it.