Trump alludes to the Murdochs joining the Tiktok agreement

Details continue to flow into Tiktok’s American takeover, although they are really clarity or muddy waters are questionable. The last treat offered by Donald Trump: the conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan could be part of the group of American investors who will buy the social media platform from Chinese property in Bytedance.

In an interview on the “The Sunday Briefing” by Fox News, the president proposed details on the least imaginable way. First, he said, “A man named Lachlan is involved.” Fortunately, there are not many Lachlans with access to money “buy tiktok”, but Trump said that he was talking about Lachlan Murdoch. He continued saying that Murdoch’s men “will probably be in the group”, then said: “I think they are going to be in the group.” It looks like a safe thing about a matter that has been lacking in details for some time now.

Trump brought together the Murdoch with other players who would be involved in the agreement to buy Tiktok, including the CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison and the CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell. Ellison was the most coherent name linked to the American Tiktok, and he had close ties with Trump dating from his first administration. Ellison and his son also have a huge participation in Paramount, who quickly transformed CBS into an information network aligned by Trump, in particular by preparing a major agreement to call on Bari Weiss. Michael Dell is a more recent name in the mixture, but perhaps not surprising since the CEO has spoken of some of Trump’s policies in recent months.

Trump did not mention Marc Andreessen or his venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz, nor the investment company Silver Lake, both that the Wall Street Journal had previously said it should be involved in the purchase of Tiktok. He said there were other people involved, that Trump described as “really great people, very eminent people”.

The involvement of murdochs is certainly to be noted, however. Trump and Rupert Murdoch were not the biggest terms, given that the Wall Street Journal, owned by Murdoch, paved the way for reports on Trump’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein. The two are currently involved in a newspaper reports, but they also recently traveled to the United Kingdom and have a much longer story than this simple current spit.

It is not difficult to imagine why Murdoch wants in the agreement: his media conglomerate currently counts mainly on the extremely old public who looks at Fox News. Tiktok offers the opportunity to serve its favorite brand as a conservative Slobe for a young generation.