Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is assembling investors to buy TikTok

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he’s interested in pulling together a group of investors to buy TikTok. 

“I think the legislation should pass and I think it should be sold,” Mnuchin told CNBC’s Squawk Box Thursday morning. “It’s a great business, and I’m going to put together a group to buy TikTok.”

“This should be owned by U.S. businesses. There’s no way that the Chinese would ever let a U.S. company own something like this in China,” Mnuchin, who served as the secretary of the treasury under former President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021, added.

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