CHINA/SOCIAL MEDIA: “[I]f you look at TikTok, we said, it’s OK if it’s bought, if it’s bought by a secure American company, they can buy the whole thing instead of 30 percent, which is the American component. But, if you buy it, the United States, which is making it possible to buy, because without us they can’t do anything, should be compensated, properly compensated with a very big payment. So, that money would go into the Treasury of the United States. And by the way, Microsoft, which is looking at it, and others, they all agreed to that.”
-Donald Trump, “President Trump talks mail-in voting, 2020 race, COVID-19 response on ‘Fox & Friends’,” video.foxnews.com, Aug. 5, 2020