{"id":5291,"date":"2025-01-24T09:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-finds-trumps-tiktok-sale-scheme-confusing-possibly-illegal-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:24:33","slug":"congress-finds-trumps-tiktok-sale-scheme-confusing-possibly-illegal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-finds-trumps-tiktok-sale-scheme-confusing-possibly-illegal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress finds Trump&#8217;s TikTok sale scheme confusing, possibly illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress are declaring themselves bewildered by Donald Trump&rsquo;s latest proposal to save TikTok by brokering a joint-ownership deal. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what he means by that,&#8221; said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), of Trump&rsquo;s suggestion to broker a &ldquo;joint venture&rdquo; in which &ldquo;the U.S. should be entitled to get half of TikTok.&rdquo; &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand what the president is doing,&rdquo; said Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/23\/congress\/congress-trump-tiktok-00200327\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress are declaring themselves bewildered by Donald Trump&rsquo;s latest proposal to save TikTok by brokering a joint-ownership deal. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what he means by that,&#8221; said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), of Trump&rsquo;s suggestion to broker a &ldquo;joint venture&rdquo; in which &ldquo;the U.S. should be entitled to get half of TikTok.&rdquo; &#8220;I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}