In a portion of an interview with FOX News Channel conducted Thursday and aired on Friday’s “Special Report,” former President Donald Trump, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, said, “I would ban TikTok along with free speech. It’s dangerous to do that.” And you’re like, “What you can do is let them sell TikTok, let them sell it on the market, maybe you’ll get a good price, maybe you won’t get a good price, but I don’t know.” But to remove it from Chinese control.” But I think China also controls Facebook. ”
Mr. Kurtz said: [relevant remarks begin around 2:30] “After the House of Representatives passed a resolution overwhelmingly banning TikTok if it does not sever ties with its China-based parent company, President Trump told Fox News, citing free exchange and national security reasons.” He told us why he no longer supports the government’s ban on ideas that he pushed for as president. ”
He then played Trump’s video and said, “But banning it for free speech is dangerous. Facebook has proven to be very dishonest. And if you ban TikTok, and you If you pick it up, we have a new concept, but if you pick it up, those people will flow to Facebook. In my opinion, Facebook was much worse than TikTok.”
Later, Kurtz said, “Trump, who recently spoke with philanthropist Jeff Yass, said he had no knowledge that the billionaire owned stock in TikTok’s parent company.”
He then played the following clip of President Trump:[I]If you’re going to do it on TikTok, if you’re going to do it on Facebook, what you can do is let them sell TikTok, let them sell it on the market, maybe get a good price, get a good price. Maybe not, I don’t know, but please take it out of Chinese control. But I think China controls Facebook. Because China has tremendous power over Facebook. ”
Details of the interview will be broadcast on “MediaBuzz” on Sunday.
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