This was just so
This makes no sense with Trump's rhetoric from his campaign or most of his presidency. Why would Trump care about specific foreign companies in general? The US president wouldn't normally be concerned with that. And one that's not essential to any particular US interest or the global economy? Why would Trump care about protecting a Chinese tech company, given that CHAI-na has been "stealing our jobs"? Why would he want to help out a company that's in trouble because it violated US sanctions? Ok, well, Trump might not care about that, depending on the sanctions. He wouldn't care about sanctions on Russia, for example. But the sanctions they violated were related to Iran! Sanctions he claims aren't tough enough!
So how could it make sense?
Oh. Yeah, ok, that makes a lot more sense.