Investigative reporter Laura Loomer has slammed TikTok apologists in the U.S. Congress as “bought and paid for” by vested interests, willing to sell their country out “like a bunch of cheap hookers.”
Speaking on Steve Bannon’s War Room, Loomer said, “we have to be aggressive with these people because they’re whores.”
“I have to expose these political prostitutes for what they are,” she continued, highlighting Senator Rand Paul and Senator Mike Lee, in particular.
“[They] are on Twitter… talking about how, ‘Oh, we are against a ban on TikTok because it is a violation of freedom of expression’ – but then what they don’t want to tell you is that they are bankrolled by Jeffrey Yass, who is a billionaire GOP megadonor and also happens to be the largest U.S. investor to TikTok,” she explained.
“Rand Paul didn’t disclose the fact that he received $2.3 million dollars from Jeffrey Yass,” she said, adding Lee also received a “max donation” from the billionaire.
Paul has reportedly received over $10 million from Jeffrey Yass, whose stake in China-based TikTok parent company ByteDance is worth around $33 billion, since 2020.
Yas has been “bullying” a number of GOP lawmakers over legislation that would force TikTok to cut ties with ByteDance, explained by The National Pulse editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam on Wednesday.
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The Kentucky Senator, who has characterized the communist influence tool as nothing but “a few dance videos,” posted on X that “reactionaries” are wrong to say TikTok is “owned by China,” citing its “international investors” – like Yass.
Paul’s post was slapped with a Community Note advising X users the Chinese state holds “a ‘golden share’ stake in ByteDance,” allowing it “to outvote all other shareholders.”
The CCP holds also controls one of three veto-wielding seat on ByteDance’s three-man board of directors, occupied by CCP executive Wu Shugang.
Loomer took particular issue with Paul’s free speech defense of TikTok, asking: “Since when does the Chinese Communist Party care about freedom of speech?”
“If you make a TikTok video and you criticize Xi Jinping you will go to jail; you will be thrown into a Chinese concentration camp like the Uyghurs,” she added.
