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New York, New York – Donald Trump’s former Finance Minister, Steve Mnuchin, announced on Thursday that he puts together a team of investors to buy Tiktok from its Chinese owner.
Former Finance Minister Steve Mnuchin wants to buy Tiktok about a bill that forces the platform to differ from his Chinese owner becomes law. © Collage: Olivier Doullery / AFP & Credit David Dee Delgado / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP
On Wednesday Approved overwhelming a bill It would force Tiktok to dispose of its parent company or meet a nationwide ban.
Mnuchin said he strongly supported the legislation, which must now go to the Senate for approval.
President Joe Biden also supports the bill and has promised to sign it if approved.
“I think the legislation should pass and I think (TikTok) should be sold,” Mnuchin told CNBC’s Squawk Box.
The Investment Bank, which served for four years under Trump, said that Tiktok was “a big company” and was looking to “put together a group to buy” it.
“This should be owned by American companies. There is no way that the Chinese would ever let an American company own something similar in China,” he claimed.
Earlier on Thursday, a Chinese official for the Ministry of Commerce said that the United States should “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies” and take “all the necessary measures to decisively protect its legitimate rights and interests.”
Another Beijing official said the United States was “the following the logic for a bandit“With the law.
Trump too opposes a banTo say that it would only benefit the metic -owned Facebook, which he considers “an enemy to the people.”
