Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Donald Trump: US Treasury should get cut of TikTok deal
Former FBI director James Comey once said that dealing with Donald Trump gave him "flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob".
The US president has certainly made TikTok an offer it can't refuse.
If the video app doesn't break away from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, and sell its US operation to Microsoft, Mr Trump will simply ban it - putting TikTok's access to its 80 million active American users in jeopardy.
Trump Says U.S. Should Get Slice of TikTok Sale Price
WASHINGTON—President Trump said he was ready to approve a purchase of the U.S. operations of the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok, but only if the government receives “a lot of money” in exchange—an assertion of presidential power that appeared to lack precedent.
Trump's interview debacle sends a warning for the fall campaign
Donald Trump's weak and flailing interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios
fired a warning flare about the President's hopes for reelection, if
his campaign and White House staff programed to fulfill his yearning for
praise are prepared to recognize it.
Trump came across as ill-prepared, narcissistic and far from in control of the coronavirus pandemic.
It was a far cry from the image of courageous leadership and energetic,
unstinting commitment on behalf of Americans that his aides spend every
day trying to sketch.
It
is hard to remember an interview in which a sitting President was more
unsparingly exposed or seemed so unequal to the magnitude of a crisis
that is threatening the American people and is nowhere near ending.
There was no "Trump derangement syndrome": We were right about him all along
Those of us who warned America that fascism was coming were called hysterical alarmists. How does that feel now?
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