GANGSTER CAPITALISM !
The White House has made Chinese social media company Bytedance an offer it can’t refuse. Either it sells its popular TikTok app to a US company or it will be banned from operating in the US.Trump wants his "vig." In gambling parlance, the "vig" is a fee charged by a bookmaker for services provided. In short, Trump wants the US to get a cut of the deal.
"I did say that, if you buy it, a very substantial portion of that price is going to have to come into the Treasury of the United States, because we’re making it possible for this deal to happen," he said.
He told a media briefing that the money would come from a very large percentage of the sale price – "which nobody else would be thinking about but me. But that’s the way I think.
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