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Episode Date: September 16, 2025Trump just brokered the sale of TikTok for the Chinese Communist Party to a likely friend or family member of Trump, but not before ensuring that China (and its military) receive Tens of Billions of U...S dollars in return for the sale, they can use to continue to hack, spy on, and militarily defeat the US. Michael Popok examines the new announced framework of the sale Trump “brokered” and what it shows about Trump selling out our National Security so he can burnish his “deal maker” reputation as the CEO of US Inc. Sundays: Get 40% off your first order of Sundays. Go to https://sundaysfordogs.com/legalaf or use code LEGALAF at checkout. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Donald Trump is benefiting the Chinese and the Chinese Communist Party at the expense of our national security.
They cut a deal in principle today between Donald Trump's trade representative, Jamie Greer,
his Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, and the Chinese Communist Party to have TikTok and its 170 million users be sold off to an American buyer for the American entity to an American buyer who's likely a friend of Donald Trump like Larry Ellison who owns Oracle.
and all this Donald Trump has done because his foreign policy, his economic policy,
is warped by his own avarice and greed and his desire to help his friends and family members
while he's president of the United States.
He's not supposed to be brokering deals to help his friends from the Oval Office.
He's supposed to be doing the people's business.
He's getting paid to be the president.
of the United States, not the deal maker in chief?
Why do we own under Donald Trump in just the last several months,
effectively own a controlling interest in a Japanese steel manufacturer
operating as U.S. steel in the United States?
Why do we own 15% of Intel, a computer chip manufacturer?
Why do we own 15% of a rare earth mineral company?
Why is the United States and the people's taxpayer dollars in business at all?
Why are we bailing out private enterprise and having the United States compete with private capital in the business world?
And now because we want to benefit Larry Ellison, the likely ultimate buyer of TikTok, we're going to strike a deal where we get rid of the tariffs against China effectively.
They've all been paused.
And we make sure, this was a quote from Jamie Greer, the trade representative.
We got to make sure the Chinese get fair value for TikTok.
Oh, yeah, and by the way, that our national security is also protected.
That's America First of Michael Popock.
You're on the Midas Dutch Network and illegal AF.
Let's get to the apparent sale of TikTok.
Now, remember, Congress got together in a bipartisan way under the Biden administration
and blocked TikTok, banned it,
unless it sold itself out from under the Chinese government.
I know people love TikTok,
but you also have to love it and recognize
that the Chinese Communist Party ultimately controlled TikTok
and its algorithm and all of its information
and personal data that you have provided him,
provided TikTok wittingly or unwittingly.
And that was a national security risk
that was recognized not only by a bipartisan Congress
and a president at the time in Biden,
but by the United States Supreme Court
who sided with.
with the ban, even though Donald Trump, after he got elected, and before he became president,
tried to lob in a brief arguing that, well, things are going to change when I'm the president,
so don't rule in favor of the ban. Well, that didn't work. And Donald Trump only jumped on the
bandwagon to let TikTok be sold and to extend the time to sell it because his sons, Baron,
and others convinced him that TikTok helped get him elected this time. In the past, Donald Trump was
very vocal that he saw the national security risk of a foreign Chinese communist government
operating effectively a surveillance platform through TikTok. But now that he can find a way
to benefit friends and family, we got a new deal announced. And the thing that's most
galling about it is I'll show you a clip from Scott Bassett, the Treasury Secretary.
We have a framework for a TikTok deal. The two leaders,
President Trump and party chair, she will speak on Friday to complete the deal,
but we do have a framework for a deal with TikTok.
And the art of the deal, it was the ban that gave them the leverage,
and the Chinese to gain additional leverage in their negotiation,
because they needed some chips on their side, no pun intended,
started a criminal investigation and an antitrust investigation against the U.S. chip manufacturer, Navidia.
And if you didn't know it, Navidia is the number one stock in the world that drives the U.S. stock market.
Navidia, not Amazon, not Facebook, not Microsoft, Navidia.
And so they went after Navidia and other chip manufacturers, including putting about 20 of them on a list.
So they had that as leverage.
So Donald Trump gave up and folded on the tariffs against China,
cut the deal
and then of course
according to Jamie Greer
the trade representative
for the United States
we got to make sure
the Chinese get enough money
is that what you have to do
I thought we're protecting
America's national security
I thought that was the reason
for the ban
that gave you the leverage
to cut the deal
but again as I said
at the top of the hot take
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the business of business
as the United States
government as the president
of the United States
you're not the CEO
you're not the chairman
of the board of the United States
we're not your shareholders, we're American citizens, we're patriots, we're taxpayers.
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Now, of course, Larry Ellison is going to end up on the winning side of this transaction.
It hasn't been announced yet, but I'd be shocked if Ellison isn't the sole buyer or part of the buying group.
First of all, he's got enough money to put the tens of billions of dollars necessary into the Chinese government's pocket.
Nothing like giving our enemy and our military enemy tens of billions of hard-earned U.S. dollars.
So one, there's very few people that can.
stroke that check. Larry Ellison
surpassed Elon Musk as
the world's richest man, hangs out
with Donald Trump. Press conferences
at the top of the term, you know, he's
all in. And if he's not all in,
his son is all in. The Nepo baby
Scott Ellison,
who owns Skydance that
just bought Paramount because Donald
Trump allowed him to buy Paramount, which
owns CBS News, so Donald Trump
has effective control of
CBS News in 60 Minutes through
the Ellison family.
I'd be shocked if it's not Larry Ellison to stroke that check or at least a part of the buying
group because you've got to come up with tens of billions of dollars to buy this platform
and then make it work and make money off of it.
But you should be as upset as I am that Donald Trump is, while he has been paid and elected
to do the people's business, is just doing business, Trump family business.
friends and family business, not the American people's business.
This doesn't help the American people that TikTok got sold ultimately and brokered by Donald Trump to Larry Ellison or somebody just like him.
How does that help the American people?
I know what people are saying.
TikTok will survive.
TikTok was going to survive regardless.
If the Chinese didn't find a willing trading partner in Donald Trump and got billions of dollars off of Trump through his friends to do it and didn't have to give.
up anything and got their tariffs reduced, who's the winner in the transaction, since we're
calling it a transaction? The Chinese, the Communist Party just beat Donald Trump in a capitalist
game. That's it. So that was going to get sold. So the 170 million people that used TikTok
and I think I'm on there when they chop up some of my videos, you know, it would survive.
there was going to be a non-communist Chinese buyer.
Oracle has been hosting the,
that's why they're the natural fit.
Larry Allison's Oracle has been hosting in their cloud
and on their server farms all of the data
for U.S. TikTok for quite some time since 2020.
They're already there.
Throw them the keys, give them the ownership.
They'll strike a check for $10 or $20 billion.
Then they'll take TikTok public
and get all the money back.
And who will be there to support it?
other friends of Donald Trump. Follow the TikTok money. It always leads to corruption
and corrupt, warped policies of the Trump administration. And that's what we're reporting on
right here. So what's going to happen next? We've got a tentative deal. Then we're going to see
Donald Trump pull the rug out from a, well, not from under the Chinese, but to get rid of the
50, 60 percent sanctions against China. That's going to go. China's going to continue to wage war
against our chip manufacturing, that hasn't been solved,
and we're going to sell it to them.
And then Donald Trump's going to hand TikTok off
to a friend or family member, including Larry Ellison.
And TikTok will go off and survive.
And the Chinese will get lots of hard-earned American currency
to upgrade their military with.
As Donald Trump also remember,
brokered the deal for Navidia,
the chip manufacturer, to sell the top secret or high-end
artificial intelligence computer chips to the Chinese as long as Donald Trump and the American people
get a 15% royalty. I'm like, that's what our national security is worth. You can put a price tag on
that? 15%. This is the Trump administration in action. This is where all those worlds collide.
His corrupt foreign policy, his corrupt tariff policy, his corrupt national security policy,
all come into a head with his TikTok brokering.
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