Source: NBC News
“A newly formed anti-corruption group has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the deal that sold TikTok’s U.S. operation to a group of administration-backed investors. The suit, filed by the Public Integrity Project, a law firm that seeks to raise the ‘reputational cost of corruption in America,’ argues the deal violates a law intended to prevent the spread of Chinese government propaganda and has enriched Trump’s allies. … Trump signed an executive order in September paving the way for the deal, and the White House and China finalized a deal to give control of TikTok’s U.S. operations to a group of investors who were backed by Trump earlier this year. The deal included investors ‘Oracle, MGX, and affiliates of Susquehanna International Group, LLP and General Atlantic, among other companies,’ which the lawsuit said ‘have close ties to the President, and have at times personally enriched him.'” (03/05/26)