Chapter 3505 Choose to get out!

When Bernard Ayno finished the interview at the airport and headed straight to the UN headquarters accompanied by UN officials, major American media outlets all received instructions from Washington.

The instructions were simple: to discredit Bernard Arnault as much as possible, the darker the better.

Although the American media claims to have freedom of the press on the surface, they are actually controlled by a group of financial tycoons behind the scenes. These tycoons are active in Silicon Valley and Wall Street and are essentially profit-driven. They often fabricate fake news and distort the facts for the sake of profit and to please Washington. Even when the President was not in office, he would angrily denounce these media as "fake news" when he mentioned them.

However, to the President, these media are like toilets. When he cannot use the toilet himself, he complains about its smell, odor and dirtiness. But when he can use it himself, he sits on it and poops and urinates every day, and he is so happy.

These media outlets now dare not disobey the President. In addition, Bernard Elno really does not give face to these domestic media outlets, so everyone is eager to deal with him. It just so happens that the President has given the order, which is equivalent to revenge by order, and everyone is naturally very happy.

So, everyone started to use their own skills to dig up some negative information about Bernard Arnault.

When it comes to negative information, Bernard Arnault actually has a lot.

For example, when it acquired the Dior brand, it played tricks on the French government. Before the acquisition, it promised to retain workers and jobs, but after the acquisition, it directly fired thousands of people from the company, turned its back on its employees, and even manipulated the stock market and was suspected of money laundering. When it acquired LV, it carried out many illegal back-room operations and achieved an illegal acquisition.

But Bernard Erno never cared about that.

He is a typical pragmatist who only cares about results. He does everything to achieve his goals and has no bottom line for this purpose.

As a result, American media practitioners immediately began to use all their talents to uncover all the improper and even illegal business competition of Bernard Arnault in the past, and then competed to report on it.

For a time, news headlines appeared one after another.

For example, "The Dirtiest Richest Man in the World", "What You Don't Know About Bernard Elno", "The Former Richest Man in the World: The Shameless Bastard Who Got to the Top by Robbery and Theft", and "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing".

After Bernard Arnault arrived at the United Nations, he was preparing for a donation ceremony in the lounge when his assistant said with a frustrated look on his face, "Boss, the American media is smearing you like crazy!"

Bernard Elno didn't even raise his eyelids and snorted coldly, "Slander me? It's nothing more than that incident from back then. It's already internationally known. It doesn't matter. Let them erase it."

The assistant said nervously, "But their coverage is a bit too intense right now. Almost all media outlets in the United States are covering this. The coverage is quite intense..."

"Don't be afraid!" Bernard Elno sneered. "Let them party to their heart's content. Who among those who have climbed to the top of the world's richest man started out clean and honest? Didn't the President also use all sorts of shady tactics when doing business? Whatever. The more ruthless they are, the better. It would be best if they could make it so bad that I can't even survive in America!"

The assistant was stunned.

What on earth is the boss trying to do?

He wasn't like this before!

In the past, he was extremely profit-driven. For the sake of business, he would even turn against his own father. Even his first hostile takeover, in which he squeezed the founder out of the entrepreneurial team, was a skin test on his own father. Only after the skin test was successful did he use this trick for decades.

Now, such a profit-driven person actually doesn't care about American business at all, and even wants to withdraw the business from America. Why... is this?

The assistant didn't understand, but Bernard Arnault had figured it out before he arrived.

With Ye Chen's permission, I can accumulate experience points bit by bit. Fifty billion experience points is not easy to accumulate, and it may take eight or ten years to accumulate enough.

Since Ye Chen asked him to come to America to cause trouble, he had to seize this opportunity to offend them severely and take the initiative to cause losses, so as to ensure that the losses were maximized.

For yourself, the greater the loss, the greater the reward.

Few people in this world can understand the weird logic behind this.

So, he smiled evilly and thought to himself: "If I destroy the American market, I hope Ye Chen doesn't deny it!"

……

Twenty minutes later.

When all kinds of negative information about Bernard Arnault was already spreading over free America, Bernard Arnault straightened his suit, walked out of the lounge and came into the spotlight.

The media reporters were snapping photos of him non-stop, and many people were looking forward to the interview session, because the public opinion war that had just occurred had unilaterally sounded the clarion call for attack on Bernard Arnault, and Bernard Arnault had not yet fought back. Everyone was waiting to see how he would react.

The UN officials were not interested in this news. They just hoped that Bernard Ayno's money would arrive soon.

Two hundred million U.S. dollars may not be enough for federal government employees to buy coffee for a year, but for the United Nations, it is a huge sum of money.

The UN's standing is declining these days. Forget generating revenue; they can't even collect dues. Funding is constantly tight, and they're constantly getting slapped in the face by the US. Now someone's offering them $200 million for free. Isn't that like pie in the sky? France's annual UN dues are only $130 million.

Therefore, UN officials enthusiastically and actively handled the entire donation process, including large checks, taking photos, expressing gratitude, and taking group photos.

After the series of procedures were completed, the UN official said excitedly: "Thank you, Mr. Bernard Ayno, for all you have done for the cause of counter-terrorism. Now, please allow Mr. Ayno to deliver a speech."

At the warm invitation of UN officials, Bernard Ayno took the microphone and said to countless media reporters with a smile, "I am very honored to have this opportunity to come to the United Nations and contribute to the global fight against terrorism."

He paused briefly, glanced at the reporters, and continued, "As everyone knows, a few days ago, an extreme terrorist attack that shocked the world nearly occurred on White Horse Island. Fortunately, at the most critical moment, I bribed the terrorist leader with money, thus preventing the tragic death of myself, my wife, Miss Sweet, and hundreds of guests and employees."

"I used to think that our lives were far away from terrorist attacks, but after this incident, I realized that danger lurks around each of us!"

"This world isn't just about terrorist attacks in certain areas. Even in some remote resorts, there are still people harboring sinister intentions and lurking to cause harm!"

"So, I came here today, stepping into the spotlight in a high-profile manner, hoping that through this donation, I can personally step onto the front lines of the fight against terrorism."

At this moment, Bernard Elno shouted indignantly, "Actually, many people have asked me, 'You've chosen to confront terrorists and their backers head-on. Aren't you afraid of being smeared, retaliated against, or even assassinated?'"

Everyone in the audience smiled for a moment. They were all media people, and they all knew that Bernard Elno was mocking and satirizing the smearing of the US government. This guy was really smart. It doesn't matter if you slander me. I will directly classify your behavior of slandering me as revenge from the backers behind the terrorists, and this time I will trample you under my feet.

At this moment, Bernard Erno waved his hand and shouted with a stern face: "I want to say, I'm not afraid! I'm not afraid of anything! In the past, I might have been timid, afraid of affecting my career development and bringing negative impact to the group, but now, I no longer put personal and group interests first! Because on White Horse Island, I have already died once. From that day on, every day I live is a gift from God! In this case, what else do I have to fear? I just want to stand up bravely! Bravely say no to the filth of this world! Even if they wave knives, guns, sticks and clubs at me, even if I will be torn to pieces, I will not hesitate!"

The passionate speech and righteous words shocked the reporters in the audience!

Except for the American reporters who felt a little jealous and uncomfortable, the other reporters began to applaud enthusiastically.

What Bernard Arnault said was absolutely right. He had the courage to say in front of the world's media that he was not afraid of terrorist revenge assassinations. This courage is truly unparalleled.

The key point is that Bernard Elno is almost one of the smartest little losers in the world. If the mastermind behind White Horse Island is those extremists in the Middle East, even if Ye Chen asked him to gain experience, he would not dare to be so arrogant, because those people may really launch various extreme attacks on him in retaliation. The rejuvenation pill is good, but you have to be alive to eat it!

But coincidentally, the mastermind behind the White Horse Island incident is the damn United States, Blackwater, and the hopeless Syrian opposition.

And Bernard Arnault did not join the Syrian opposition, but instead opened fire on the United States and Blackwater.

Because although these two are shameless, at least they are still within the normal world framework. They would never dare to assassinate me again in this environment. The only thing they can do is to hit my business. Wouldn't this help me gain experience?

So Bernard Arnault could act with impunity and treat America and Blackwater as soft persimmons to be exploited.

The applause from the audience lasted for at least two or three minutes.

After the applause finally died down, Bernard Elno faced the camera with a stern expression and said, "Just now, before I went on stage, I heard something. The American media seems to be digging up some of my past experiences and making a big fuss about them. I don't want to explain anything here. After all, businessmen tend to have some unconventional operating methods, and no one is immune to them."

After that, he sneered, "However, given the concerted and deliberate smear campaign by the American media at this time, I have completely lost confidence in the American market environment. Therefore, I declare that all of my group's brand stores in the United States will officially cease operations after midnight tonight! If the American government and the American media want me to choose between shutting up or getting out, then I choose to get out!"