President Donald Trump has revealed the team of super-rich magnates he’s assembling as part of his goal to take TikTok out of Chinese hands in the U.S.—and he’s in the middle of a $10 billion legal dispute with one of them.
The president spoke about the app Sunday while appearing as the first-ever guest on The Sunday Briefing, a new show from Fox News.
Trump took some time to fawn over Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch as two of the one percenters he hopes will be involved in a TikTok deal. This is despite having served the 94-year-old mogul with a multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuit over one of his many papers, The Wall Street Journal.
Asked by host Peter Doocy—son of fellow Fox News pundit Steve Doocy—how much money would be involved in the potential TikTok takeover, Trump admitted he w