Charlie Dent: Trump Has Got Himself a ‘Conundrum’ on TikTok Ban and Immigration Policy

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BLITZER: “Let me bring Charlie Dent into this conversation, Charlie. Trump met, as we heard with TikTok CEO at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month. What does that tell you about the series of meetings that Trump has had with all of these tech CEOs since the election?”
DENT: “Well, Trump clearly is listening to a lot of these tech CEOs. The fact that Donald Trump wants to expand visas for those who graduate from American universities or those with STEM degrees, I think that actually is a good thing, particularly with advanced degrees. But it‘s also telling me, too, about TikTok is that Donald Trump, I think, is in a bit of a conundrum. On the one hand, you know, he wants to be tough on China, and the United States would never, I should say China would never allow a company with close ties to the national security agency to operate freely within China. That‘s the same argument being made about TikTok in the U.S. that the Chinese government has far too much influence and control over that company and its operations here in the United States access to people‘s data. And there are a lot of national security hawks within the House Republican conference and across the whole conference who highly object to allowing TikTok to operate. So Trump‘s got himself a little bit of a conundrum here, both on TikTok and on this immigration policy, where he espouses a hard line but also acknowledges real needs in terms of bringing in legal immigrants.”