President Donald Trump said prominent billionaires including media mogul Rupert Murdoch and tech founder Michael Dell could be part of a deal in which the U.S. will take control of the social video platform TikTok.

Trump namedropped the 94-year-old Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch, the head of Fox News and News Corp, as part of a group of possible participants in a deal during an interview recorded Friday and aired Sunday on Fox News.

I think theyre going to be in the group. A couple of others. Really great people, very prominent people, Trump said. And theyre also American patriots, you know, they love this country. I think theyre going to do a really good job.

Trumps disclosure of the potential involvement of the Murdochs and Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, is the l

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