Vermillion Posted March 11 Posted March 11 ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Mr. President, while talking about China, I want to ask you about perhaps one of the biggest business stories and policy stories of the moment, and that is TikTok. You have called TikTok a national security threat. At one point you said that their, quote, “Data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans personal and proprietary information.”. And yet, it appears that you’ve now reversed your view on banning TikTok. Why is that? DONALD TRUMP: So– I had it done. And then Congress said, well, they never, they they ultimately, usually fail, (laughs) you know, they are a gooch– like, extremely political and they’re extremely subject to people called lobbyists who happen to be very, very talented, very good and very rich. I could have banned TikTok. I had it banned just about, I could have got that done. But I said, you know what? But I’ll leave it up to you. I didn’t push them too hard because, you know, let them do their own research and development, and they decided not to do it. But as you know, I was at the point where I could have got that done if I wanted to. I sort of said, you guys decide you make that decision because it’s a tough decision to make. Frankly, there are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who who will go crazy without it. There are a lot of, users. There’s, you know, a lot of good and there’s a lot of bad with TikTok. But the thing I don’t like is that without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger. And I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media. What Facebah-book did with lock boxes, with a $500 million, Zuckerberg’s, lock boxes that he put in. I mean, I considered illegal. But, you know, so they, you know, they put people in jail when they spend, they put people in jail when they spent more than $5,600 in a campaign. They go to jail if they’re $200. Look at Dinesh D’Souza, and they put him in jail over a couple of hundred bucks, and yet here’s the guy spends $500 million and he doesn’t go to jail. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Mr. President, but with TikTok. But do you believe that TikTok is a national security threat or not? Because if it is, and I believe that you’re, the emergency powers order that you would put in place at the time, suggested that it was, was that not true? DONALD TRUMP: I do believe that. I do believe it. And we have to very much go into privacy and make sure that we are protecting the American people’s privacy and data rights, and I agree, but, you know, we also have that problem with other you have that problem with Facebook and lots of other companies too. I mean, they get the information, they get plenty of information, and they deal with China and they’ll do whatever China wants. You know, if you look at, some of our American companies, when you talk about, highly sophisticated companies that you think are American, they’re not so American. They deal in China, and China, if China wants anything from them, they will give it. So that’s a national security risk also. But when I look at it, I’m not looking to make Facebook double the size. And if you, if you ban TikTok, Facebook and others, but mostly Facebook will be a big beneficiary. And I think Facebook has been very just, I think Facebook has been very bad for our country, especially when it comes to elections. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Mr. president, you met recently with Jeff Yass, who’s a hedge fund manager, has a stake in TikTok. He’s a huge GOP donor. Steve Bannon has suggested that you’ve been paid off, to to switch your view. How did your your view change? How did that come about? And did you have a conversation with Jeff Yass about it? DONALD TRUMP: No, I didn’t, and I met with him very briefly. I made a speech and I said hello to him. And his wife who’s lovely. And actually, her primary thing was on education. She wants choice as I do. And, she mentioned to me more than anything, you know, we talked about education. It was a meeting that lasted for a few minutes. No, the only one I met was, I met them both. And, you know, I never. I don’t think I ever met him before, but he never mentioned Tik Tok. She did mention school choice, and that’s what, in fact, she said, my whole life is based around school. Choice was a very important thing to her. 1
Vermillion Posted March 11 Posted March 11 4 minutes ago, GhostBox said: A gift to the Biden campaign More where that came from:
GhostBox Posted March 11 Posted March 11 5 minutes ago, Espresso said: More where that came from: Biden and his campaign should make the election about abortion and Trump wanting to cut social security and medicaid. It’s their best lanes
GhostBox Posted March 11 Posted March 11 Mace running with the “I’ve been shamed as a rape victim” act is laughable. No one shamed her for being a rape victim. they simply asked her how can she support Trump who was found guilty of sexual assault. She brought up her own story as a way to not answer the question. So then he asked how could she support a man who did this considering her story. Shes such a fraud
GhostBox Posted March 11 Posted March 11 (edited) 6 hours ago, Espresso said: More where that came from: Welp Edited March 11 by GhostBox
GhostBox Posted March 11 Posted March 11 (edited) I have to say since the SOTU I have seen Biden out and campaigning everywhere and only seen Trump once 💀 plus Trump making more and more mistakes and getting bad press. that’s unusual. It does seem like there’s been a shift in the race at least when it comes to campaigning and vibes. (Can’t say anything about the polls yet because weirdly there haven’t been any since SOTU) Edited March 11 by GhostBox
Vroom Vroom Posted March 12 Posted March 12 1 hour ago, GhostBox said: I have to say since the SOTU I have seen Biden out and campaigning everywhere and only seen Trump once 💀 plus Trump making more and more mistakes and getting bad press. that’s unusual. It does seem like there’s been a shift in the race at least when it comes to campaigning and vibes. (Can’t say anything about the polls yet because weirdly there haven’t been any since SOTU) Everyone is so surprised that Trump is an awful candidate lol He’s going to be in court for the majority of his campaign. Biden can definitely still lose and it will be embarrassing if he does
GhostBox Posted March 12 Posted March 12 (edited) Expect a lot of political attacks on Biden tomorrow from Hur. He’s no longer employed so he can be as political as he wants with the help of his gop operatives. Literally stepping down the day before your testimony is very suspicious. Edited March 12 by GhostBox
GhostBox Posted March 12 Posted March 12 (edited) 16 minutes ago, FameFatale said: This interview is wild The fact the Judges are slow walking this case to protect Trump 💀 the man is guilty as hell. Edited March 12 by GhostBox
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