{"id":32919,"date":"2025-06-20T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=32919"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:31:33","slug":"did-tiktok-try-to-bribe-trump-with-300m-in-crypto-the-company-fires-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=32919","title":{"rendered":"Did TikTok Try to Bribe Trump With $300M In Crypto? The Company Fires Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>TikTok<\/strong> has strongly refuted claims that it purchased $300 million worth of <strong>Official Trump<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">TRUMP<\/a>), the meme coin, to influence U.S. President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The social media company <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TikTokPolicy\/status\/1935843761063669941\">responded <\/a>publicly on June 19 via <strong>X<\/strong> (formerly Twitter), stating that the accusation was &#8220;false and irresponsible,&#8221; and an attempt to distort its actions.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation originated from U.S. Congressman <strong>Brad Sherman<\/strong>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BradSherman\/status\/1935776036031009090\">accused <\/a>TikTok&#8217;s parent company, <strong>ByteDance<\/strong>, of making the massive crypto purchase as a bribe to Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Sherman argued that since Trump reportedly received the token at no cost, any market purchases would &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/social-media\/25\/06\/46033842\/did-tiktok-try-to-bribe-trump-with-300m-in-crypto-the-company-fires-back\" alt=\"Did\" tiktok try to bribe trump with in crypto the company fires back>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has strongly refuted claims that it purchased $300 million worth of Official Trump (CRYPTO: TRUMP), the meme coin, to influence U.S. President Donald Trump. What Happened: The social media company responded publicly on June 19 via X (formerly Twitter), stating that the accusation was &#8220;false and irresponsible,&#8221; and an attempt to distort its actions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-32919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}