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Trump rambled on again and again in his appearance on CNBC, raising questions that would possibly be unfamiliar to anyone who isn’t steeped in the capricious culture of the MAGA media ecosystem. For example, Trump complained about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg by launching a half-baked speech. Conspiracy theory about the ballot box that incredibly was not unusual in the 2020 presidential election and the Covid-19 pandemic.
“What Facebook did with the vaults. . . with $500 million, uh, vaults that he put in them. I mean, it’s illegal,” Trump said as he walked away.
The “safe deposit boxes” purportedly refer to an initiative through the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a nonprofit that earned $350 million from Mark Zuckerberg, according to NPR. This money helped local governments through the investment of various teams to help manage elections in the unprecedented demanding situations of the Covid-19 pandemic, adding the procurement of PPE for election officials and the installation of ballot boxes for postal voters to cast their votes.
Trump stuttered and repeated himself as he talked about his conspiracy theory on Monday, which is notable only because the former president ridiculed President Joe Biden for precisely those kinds of rhetorical stumbles over the weekend.
“But, you know, they. . . You know, they put other people in jail when they spend. . . They jail other people when they spend more than $5,600 on a campaign, they go to prison if they spend $200. “Look at Dinesh D’Souza. They were jailed for a few hundred dollars. And yet, the guy spends $500 million and he’s not going to go to prison. Very interesting,” Trump continued.
D’Souza made a 2022 “documentary” called Two Hundred Mules that purported to show fraud in the 2020 election, but has been very well debunked in and out of court. D’Souza was charged in 2014 with illegally earning $20,000 in crusade contributions on behalf of others and lying about it to the FTC. D’Souza pleaded guilty but was pardoned by Trump in 2018.
CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin also touched on comments beyond Trump about TikTok in his interview on Monday, noting that the former president had a very different view of TikTok when he was in office. Trump made a 180-degree turn on TikTok beyond what was planned last week. Which led many to wonder if it had anything to do with Trump’s relationship with Republican mega-donor Jeff Yass, a billionaire with a massive investment in ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company.
“Sir, though, President, TikTok. . . do you think TikTok is a national security risk or not?Because if that’s the case, and I think the emergency powers executive order that you put into effect at the time advised it to be right, Sorkin asked, referring to the executive order signed through Trump.
Trump veered and tried again to focus the interview on Facebook.
“Yes, that’s right,” Trump responded. And we want to be very careful about privacy and make sure that we protect the privacy and knowledge rights of the American people. And I agree. But you know, we have this too. “challenge with others. . . There’s also this challenge with Facebook and many other companies. I mean, they get the information, they get a lot of information, they deal with China, and they’ll do whatever China wants.
In reality, the executive order signed by Trump was challenged in court, with President Joe Biden rescinding the executive order as part of his administration’s own security assessment. Biden has spoken out in favor of banning TikTok if there is no divestment through ByteDance, which has shares in China.
Trump has attempted to rewrite the public history of his preference for banning TikTok, simply by lying about what happened. But it will be very attractive to see if Trump’s crusade makes the decision to ban advertising on Facebook in the run-up to 2024. elections next November. So far, Trump continues to spend and solicits donations that will no doubt go toward his legal fees. Because Trump has been indicted in 4 other jurisdictions on a variety of issues, arguably the most significant is his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and remain in place despite his defeat.
“I humbly ask him if he can give a contribution of $5, $10 or even $25. “Trump’s most recent announcement reads, “With your donation, we will take back the White House and make America wonderful again. “
Humbly, by the way.
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