I won’t waste much in the way of column space on this, as it is likely that John is simply pretending not to understand what TikTok is… so as not to embarrass Donald John Trump, about his “bribe seeking” behavior, even before he enters office. [He pretends not to understand how multi-national holdcos may be… readily… restructured.]
That is likely why Hinderaker wrote this garbage, overnight.
It saves him from admitting what we all know: that Tangerine 1.0 tried to extract bribes from ByteDance in 2020, and now Tangerine 2.0 again seeks them in 2024-25. I offer no evidence that he actually got paid any bribe — but this is a man whose whole life is transactional: it is always — and only — about what he gets in return for even the smallest gesture.
As a preeminent Constitutional scholar noted over the weekend, Trump’s SCOTUS brief is devoid of any legal argument, at all… largely because the bribe seeking behavior he advocates… is utterly unlawful.
[And, BTW, the Supremes have no authority to stop laws that are Constitutional from taking effect.] So it goes.
You may stop pretending not to understand that now, John.
O U T.
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Nice post🌅🌅
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