Yass-Funded Group Is Top Donor to Pro-Trump Pennsylvania Campaign
The group's big donation to the pro-Trump effort came after Trump came out against banning TikTok, in which Yass is heavily invested.
Two months after former President Donald Trump reversed course and said that he opposed a TikTok ban, a group funded nearly exclusively by billionaire TikTok investor Jeff Yass, who is generally known as a Never Trumper, donated to an organization running a multi-million dollar pro-Trump campaign in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.
Trump’s flip-flop on the TikTok issue earlier this year was a striking departure from his position as president. In August 2020, Trump issued an executive order “addressing the threat posed by TikTok” that called for the U.S. to “take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security.” The order would have required TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the app within 45 days, but it was blocked by federal judges later that year.
