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So the hawking radiation is so strong that it impedes matter falling into the hole?

And can you charge the hole with enough of a charge to use electromagnetism to move and contain it?

Do note that that's a bit speculative. We haven't actually observed hawking radiation. And Hawking radiation definitely isn't what slows feeding in astronomical black holes, but radiation from the gas heating up as it falls.

Yes the event horizon would be smaller than the width of a proton. Good luck getting anything into that with 300 TW of gamma rays coming out of it.

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