• WatDabney
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    17 hours ago

    So pretty obviously what happened here was that Trump and the Chinese authorities struck a deal by which Trump would be given credit for not enforcing the ban that both he and Biden had already said they had no intention of enforcing.

    The interesting question is: what did Trump give China in exchange?

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      1 hour ago

      Imagine believing this conspiracy theory is “pretty obvious”. Nobody even downvotes this kinda nonsense. Peak lib delusions.

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      15 hours ago

      He probably told them they could just keep the data and do whatever they want with it as long as they provide it to our social media companies in the US for free.

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      16 hours ago

      Eh, could be anything really. Could be just tiktok deciding to mess with trump. Could be many likely and unlikely scenarios. I just think that he took the money in exchange for health of the people of usa. It’s not anything new, many presidents have done it, and for me its the biggest form of betrayal. Who cares about revealing some state secrets about their enemies, when those enemies are already dead.