Companies / Telecoms & Technology China-based dealmaker behind Trump’s social media venture Dealmaker got shell company for Trump's deal off the ground 10 February 2022 - 16:50 Echo Wang and Michael Berens Donald Trump holds up the New York Post while discussing an executive order on social media companies when he was US president in May 2020. Picture: REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST A China-based financier, once reprimanded by US regulators and barred from taking his company public, played a bigger role than is publicly known in the shell company that agreed to merge with former president Donald Trump’s new social media venture,...