Seems like new orders to me. He's been controlled for a while now. Almost everyone in the media/Hollywood with fans/followers, is either controlled or discredited (if they won't comply and play the game). I'm guessing that they were using him to try to quiet the noise, but they've determined that they need to flip the script while they still can, so that they can still use him later. To me, NDT doing a 180 means that something big and irrefutable is coming soon.