https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/jeff-yass-billionaire-donor-investments-tiktoks-parent-company-rcna142531

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Jeff Yass co-founded the Philadelphia-based trading firm Susquehanna International Group, which owns a 15% stake in TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance.

Yass' personal share is 7%, worth roughly $21 billion.

Critics accuse Yass of bankrolling an army of lobbyists and orchestrating a bare-knuckle pressure campaign to protect TikTok - including by leveraging his nascent relationship with former President Donald Trump.

During the 2022 midterm elections, Yass donated $47 million to help Republican candidates and committees, making him the third-largest conservative political donor in America.

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I can't blame him. If I were about to lose $21 billion I'd be leaning on Trump to make a u-turn, threatening to pull funding from Republicans, offering back-handers and bribes to prevent the ban, bank-rolling those who will put China's interests before America's.

Of course, if I were an American Patriot being harangued by Yass, knew that TikTok were a danger to American national security, a threat to America's economy, I'd tell him to go fuck himself.

But Trump isn't a patriot. He let himself be bought, lock, stock and barrel, is encouraging his fellow Republicans and his base to sell America down the river.

Will other patriots turn traitor as Trump has ? We will have to wait and see.