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?
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.