Donald Trump does a TikTok FlipFlop after meeting with Billionaire Tiktok Investor/GOP Donor

[essentialsaltes]

Steve Bannon Suggests Donald Trump Has Been Bought by Billionaire Tiktok Investor/GOP Donor​

A bipartisan bill put forward by members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party last week would work to "incentivize divestment of TikTok" by ByteDance by blocking it from appearing in American app stores and granting Executive Branch authority to take similar action in the future against social media companies operated by a "foreign adversary."

Lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy & Commerce advanced the legislation last week in a 50-0 bipartisan vote to the full U.S. House of Representatives.

Despite his past stances in favor of action against TikTok for its Chinese ties, Trump, the leading candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, wrote in a Truth Social post on Thursday that he opposed the recent bill, [suggesting that Facebook would gain if Tiktok loses, and Facebook is a "true Enemy of the People!"]

In response to this post, reports noted that the seeming shift in stance from Trump came after a meeting with Jeff Yass, a conservative hedge fund manager who has a $33 billion stake in TikTok. Yass, according to Intelligencer, has been allegedly threatening to pull support from GOP lawmakers who back the bipartisan divestment bill.

See also from 2020:

TikTok will be banned tomorrow

Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday ...well. This is sudden. I can kind of almost agree with this, except I don’t see why he won’t just let Microsoft buy the app - seems like that would be a great way to solve the problem without nixing a popular service...

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Trump plans to ban TikTok in US report says

Trump plans to ban TikTok in the US, report says President Donald Trump said late Friday that he planned to ban TikTok from the US. The action could come as soon as Saturday. "As far as TikTok is concerned we're banning them from the United States," Trump told reporters on Air Force One...

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Pompeo warns TikTok users' personal info could be going 'directly to the Chinese Communist Party'

From the article. Pompeo called out top tech leaders who claimed that they were unaware that Chinese are trying to steal American intellectual property Secretary of State Mike Pompeo supported President Trump's proposed ban of social media phenomenon TikTok, explaining to Fox News' "Sunday...

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[The IbanezerScrooge]

Super curious to see how the sentiment regarding that Chinese owned application shifts on these forums over the next couple of weeks.

 

[The Barbarian]

He's for sale. He needs cash. And he has no loyalty to anyone or anything but his perceived self-interest.

So not surprising.

 

[Vambram]

He's for sale. He needs cash. And he has no loyalty to anyone or anything but his perceived self-interest.

So not surprising.

I apply that description to Joe Biden.

 

[The Barbarian]

I apply that description to Joe Biden.

Comes down to evidence. Tough game, but it's real.

 

[Vambram]

Comes down to evidence. Tough game, but it's real.

Only those unwilling to see the evidence about Joe's corruption have not acknowledged it.

 

[The Barbarian]

Only those unwilling to see the evidence about Joe's corruption have not acknowledged it.

I notice that the House republicans have now admitted that they don't have any.
So it seems to be an ongoing problem for them.

 

[Vambram]

I notice that House Republicans continue to say that they have evidence about Joe's corruption.

 

[Ophiolite]

I notice that House Republicans continue to say that they have evidence about Joe's corruption.

I suppose the delay in presenting it is caused by the translation from Russian.

 

[KCfromNC]

Only those unwilling to see the evidence

I guess if there's no evidence, blaming others for not seeing it might be a good enough distraction for the time being. But eventually voters are going to catch on.

 

[KCfromNC]

I notice that House Republicans continue to say that they have evidence about Joe's corruption.

What they say and what they actually are able to present have diverged in this (and many other) cases.
Not to mention the thread is about Mr. Trump's flip flopping, not the complete lack of evidence presented for problems with the President.

 

[BCP1928]

I apply that description to Joe Biden.

Well, we can hope that Biden is too senile to act corruptly any more, and as long as He can front successfully for the enablement of Democratic policy. we'll just put up with it.

 

[The Barbarian]

I notice that House Republicans continue to say that they have evidence about Joe's corruption.

Well, let's take a look...​

House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden​

After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct.

House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden

After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct.

www.nytimes.com

‘You Don’t Actually Have Any Facts’: Even Fox Isn’t Buying GOP’s Claims About Biden’s Foreign Business Dealings​

'You Don't Actually Have Any Facts': Even Fox Isn't Buying GOP's Claims About Biden's Foreign Business Dealings

Fox News' Steve Doocy pushed back against House Oversight Chair James Comer's claims of having evidence linking Joe Biden to influence peddling scheme

www.rollingstone.com

It's over. Republicans are just dragging it out to fool as many people as they can.


Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Oversight Committee who is leading the Republican effort to investigate President Joe Biden, says the House may not hold an impeachment vote after all.

Comer told Spectrum News that the “math keeps getting worse” for Republicans, whose razor-thin majority in the House got even tighter after losing a Republican-held New York congressional seat earlier this week.
Rep. James Comer: Biden impeachment vote may not happen

 

[The Barbarian]

Meantime, with his daughter's special Chinese patents at stake, and running out of donor cash, Trump flips on TikToc again...
But now Trump sees some utility in helping to keep TikTok around, especially after President Joe Biden said he would sign the bill into law. “Frankly, there are a lot of people on TikTok that love it,” he told CNBC. “There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it.”

The former President’s flip-flop has sparked allegations that he’s doing the bidding of a powerful donor with a stake in ByteDance. But part of his calculus, multiple sources familiar with Trump’s thinking tell TIME, is the opportunity to make gains with younger voters by protecting their beloved platform.

“He realizes that a lot of people would be upset if it were banned,” says a Trump operative working on the re-election effort. “Now Trump and Biden are on opposite sides of an issue where younger voters are clearly in favor of not banning TikTok.”

Trump has other reasons for the reversal. He struck a rapprochement this month with the anti-tax group Club for Growth, which opposes the bill. Earlier this year, the organization admitted defeat in an expensive effort to keep Trump from winning the GOP nomination. “We’re back in love,” Trump recently told a gathering of its donors, according to Politico. The group opposes the bill, mirroring the position of one of its benefactors, billionaire Jeff Yass, whose investment company owns 15% of ByteDance. To boost the effort, Club for Growth hired longtime Trump loyalist Kellyanne Conway to advocate for TikTok on Capitol Hill.

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[The Barbarian]

Only those unwilling to see the evidence about Joe's corruption have not acknowledged it.

I've been told the same thing about Bigfoot. But at least they have a footprint or two to show us.

 

[wing2000]

I notice that House Republicans continue to say that they have evidence about Joe's corruption.

Okay....and your view of banning Tik Tok? You know, the topic of this thread?

 

[essentialsaltes]

House passes bill that could lead to US ban of TikTok​

• Who voted for the bill: The House vote was 352 to 65, with 50 Democrats and 15 Republicans voting in opposition. In a rare show of bipartisanship, the measure advanced unanimously out of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, and President Joe Biden has said he would sign the bill if it makes it to his desk.
• What the legislation would do: The bill would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is spun off from ByteDance. The bill would give ByteDance roughly five months to sell TikTok. If not divested by that time, it would be illegal for app store operators such as Apple and Google to make it available for download.
• Uncertain future in the Senate

I understand former Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is putting together a bid to buy TikTok.