Trump says the Murdochs will most likely have a role in the U.S. TikTok deal
President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that the Rupert Murdoch media tycoon and his son Lachlan, who heads News Corp and Fox Corp., are involved in the Tiktok American control agreement.
“These are very well -known people,” said Trump to Fox News “the Sunday briefing” when asked who was involved in the tiktok agreement.
“Larry Ellison is one of them. He is involved. This big guy, Michael Dell is involved. I hate telling you this, but a man named Lachlan is involved. Did you know who is Lachlan? It is a very unusual name, Lachlan Murdoch,” added the president.
His remarks one day came after the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, disclosed details on the agreement, which would see Tiktok algorithm in the United States.
“This agreement means that Tiktok will belong to the majority of Americans in the United States. There will be seven seats on the board of directors which controls the application in the United States, and six of these seats will be Americans,” Leavitt in Fox News “on Saturday in America”.
On Sunday, a White House spokesman did not immediately answer the question of whether Lachlan Murdoch would be one of the six Americans to sit on the board of directors to control Tiktok, or if he would be involved in another quality.
A familiar source told NBC News that Lachlan Murdoch would not be involved in the Tiktok agreement individually, but that Fox Corp. would play a role.
Murdoch officially picked up Fox Corp. And News Corp earlier this month, ending a long battle of succession between him and his brothers and sisters on whom would take control of their father’s businesses, Rupert Murdoch.
The Murdoch family media Empire includes conservative press organizations like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.
While Trump and the managers of the White House administration appear frequently on Fox News, the president is currently disagreeing with the Wall Street Journal. He continued Fox Corp and the elder Murdoch in July for $ 10 billion in damages after the review published an article saying that Trump had sent a letter to the disgraced financier who died Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 which included a drawing of a naked woman.
Trump also mentioned that Rupert Murdoch could be involved in the agreement, saying on Sunday: “Rupert is, will probably be in the group. I think they will be in the group.”
Ellison’s involvement in the Tiktok agreement was previously known, because the software and cloud computing company he co -founded, Oracle, will manage the aspects of data and confidentiality of Tiktok, said Leavitt on Saturday.
On Sunday, Trump’s revelation that Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, will also be involved with Tiktok after his sale was a new detail. Neither the president nor any civil servant of the White House revealed the names of other American business leaders who could be involved with Tiktok after the sale.
A Dell Technologies spokesperson did not immediately respond to the request for comments from NBC News.
Trump simply said that there would be that there would be a “couple of other really great people, very important people”.
“And they are also American patriots, you know, they like this country, so I think they are going to do a very good job,” he added.
The Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, announced last week that the US and Chinese officials had reached an “executive” for an agreement to facilitate the sale of the platform, which has more than 170 million American users, to an American owner.
The news of an agreement occurred after Trump repeatedly extended the deadline for the sale of Tiktok to a company based in the United States since it started its second term in January. The sale is required on the basis of an American law which was adopted on a bipartite basis at Congress last year and signed by the president of the time, Joe Biden.
The law was initially to come into force in January, a few hours before the inauguration of Trump. Tiktok briefly closed the United States at the time until Trump promises that he will not apply the sanctions in the law when sworn.
US officials have expressed concerns about Chinese society for years that owns Tiktok, Bytedance, saying that it could be shared user data with the Chinese government or let the Chinese government influence the platform algorithm.
