• Following a classified meeting apparently related to a recent crackdown on Chinese espionage, lawmakers have rushed to push a TikTok divestment bill

• If passed, the TikTok bill will not ban TikTok, but require Bytedance to sell TikTok or face a ban in America (it is difficult to interpret the opposition’s framing of the bill as an outright ban as anything other than malicious information)

• The real motivation of TikTok’s loudest defenders, which now include Trump, appears to be political support ($$$) from Bytedance investor Jeff Yass

• Jeff Yass has funneled MILLIONS of dollars into relentless TikTok defender Vivek Ramaswamy's "American Exceptionalism PAC"

• With pro-China backroom globalism back on the GOP menu, the future of “America First” is called into question
  

All is fair in love and info war. Last week, following a classified hearing with officials from the FBI and Justice Department — which we still know nothing about, and which, for some reason, almost nobody has covered — a bi-partisan group of lawmakers resurrected Trump’s attempt at TikTok divestiture, which would force TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company. Ostensibly, the purpose of the bill is to mitigate CCP surveillance of US citizens, which has persisted for years despite TikTok’s “Project Texas” promises to the contrary. Of course, there are a number of likely motives behind the bill, and a far more insidious array behind the bill’s resistance. But this time around, in a surprise political twist, Democrats are relatively quiet on the issue, while Republicans, the driving force behind divestiture under Trump, are loudly divided. Here, no pivot has been more surprising than that of Trump himself, who Thursday evening took to Truth Social with his position: “If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!”