I am presently beyond words as to how wrong this is. More on that later. I guess after he got away with extorting the president of Ukraine, he has come to feel there are no limits. More probably though, this is just another diversion. He knows it will never fly. That people will be outraged. He just upended the deal, because he doesn't want a deal. He wants to silence TikTok users.Doubts surround ‘education fund’ connected to TikTok deal
20 September 2020
By Demetri Sevastopulo and James Fontanella-khan
President Trump has given his “blessing” to Oracle’s partnership with ByteDance to operate TikTok, but his claim that the companies would finance a $5-billion “patriotic” education fund has raised questions about the deal to allow the app to operate in the U.S.
The president said he had given “preliminary” approval for the deal that Oracle and ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the short-video app, proposed to alleviate concerns about protecting U.S. national security.
But in a new twist in the more than week-long negotiations between the companies and his administration, Trump said his team was talking to them about funding a venture that would teach American children about the “real history of our country.”
“We have a deal worked out,” Trump told supporters in North Carolina on Saturday. “They are going to pay $5 billion into a fund for education so we can educate people as to the real history of our country. We are getting very close to that deal.”
However, ByteDance said in a statement Sunday that it had first heard about the $5-billion education fund from media reports. More...
Clay Claiborne
He attacks Tiktok because it's a bunch of teens speaking out about how he might have once been a good businessman but doesn't know how to run a country for shit-
— Batty Boi Dan []Multi-character[] (@Goth3Dan) September 22, 2020
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