President Donald Trump said prominent billionaires – including media moguls Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and tech founder Michael Dell – could be part of a deal in which the US will take control of the social video platform TikTok.

Trump namedropped the 94-year-old Murdoch and his son, the head of Fox News and News Corp, as part of a group of possible participants in a deal during an interview recorded Friday and aired Sunday on Fox News.

“I hate to tell you this, but a man named Lachlan is involved. Lachlan is, that’s a very unusual name, Lachlan Murdoch,” Trump said. “And Rupert is probably going to be in the group. I think they’re going to be in the group.”

“A couple of others. Really great people, very prominent people,” Trump said. “And they’re also American patriots, you know, they

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