Bannon claims Trump has been 'bought' over his change in position, regarding the banning of Tiktok.
Story here, https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-suggests-donald-trump-has-been-bought-1877583
The optics on this story, if true, are not good. Trump changed his tune after meeting with conservative hedge fund manager, Jeff Yass, who has a 33% stake in Tiktok.
Either A) Trump was bought or B) there other plans for Tiktok when he becomes President again and he doesn't want congress to spoil that right now. Which would go more in line with cleaning out CCP influence.
What do you think?
There is no way President Trump is "bought". He may change his mind about something once he is educated about it, but he would NEVER sell out, especially at this point in the show.
TikTok is being used by CCP for influence operations. However, it is now under control of CCP nationalists and has been taken away from CCP globalists who were previously coordinating operations with CIA. Just like Twitter/X, it is a problem for CIA in the information war because their globalist narrative is no longer monolithic, and counter-narratives are demolishing them continuously.
TikTok is competition and all competition, if it cannot be controlled, must be eliminated.
Reframe events in context of CCP faction Civil War underway since ~2015-2018 “anti-corruption purge” by Xi that targeted globalist factions led by two previous leaders prior to Xi.
Is TikTok still under CCP rule or has it already been seized by the white hats? If the Elon/X theory about Twitter being seized is correct, this would be pivotal in this war. Just about all of the young people look at TikTok daily. I see no better way to get to them. The younger people are vibrant and passionate, like us, but with that youthful energy. When the kids are screaming the truth from the rooftops, more young people will listen and carry the torch to the finish line. After all, THEY are the future.
Unclear. However, Trump appears to be "end-stopping the spectrum of options" by putting a marker out at "leave it alone". So now somebody could come in with "spinoff Bytedance US operations and sell to US-based entity" which would be in the middle of the road compromise, relatively. Contrast with Biden position of "shut it down or ban it". They are playing a bit of good cop, bad cop while giving the Chinese a way to save face by divesting of US operations "because the US gov't forced us to do it".
It is possible that the agreement on the Bytedance/TT spinoff is already in place. It is also possible that it is an asset seizure disguised as a "national security forced spinoff". There is evidence that Twitter may have been a forced sale to a "friendly entity" to take it away from bad actors (one could regard this as an asset seizure of sorts from the CIA/globalists).
It appears to be a bit of turnabout as globalist plan appeared to be to have Bytedance (when controlled by CCP globalists) buy Twitter back in 2021 and then merge it with other social media to create a China-based "Global Ministry of Truth". That globalist plan apparently got nuked by whitehats.
I did not know that!!!