Trump says it could be worth keeping TikTok in US for a little while

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Aol/Reuters

December 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM


(Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he favored allowing TikTok to keep operating in the United States for at least a little while, saying he had received billions of views on the social media platform during his presidential campaign.

Trump's comments before a crowd of conservative supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, were one of the strongest signals yet that he opposes a potential exit of TikTok from the U.S. market. The U.S. Senate passed a law in April requiring TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest the app, citing national security concerns.

TikTok's owners have sought to have the law struck down, and the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case. But if the court does not rule in ByteDance's favor and no divestment occurs, the app could be effectively banned in the United States on Jan. 19, one day before Trump takes office.

It is unclear how Trump would go about undoing the TikTok divestiture order, which passed overwhelmingly in the Senate.

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As a note - the TikTok divestiture was included in the Ukraine/Israel aid package this past April.

[Justice matters.]

1. The felon could tell (f)elonmusk to buy it...

just to show who the real resident is?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. worth keeping TikTok in US for who?

He's so predictable. It's all about him.

[zorbasd]

5. Actually, TSF changed his position on TikToc a year ago, and didn't he recently meet with TicTok's CEO at Mara-a-Lago

TSF probably told the CEO he'll be able to keep TicTok running in the US, as long as he contibutes big money to his pockets, and keeps the propaganda content in favor of MAGA. Just watch.

[RockRaven]

3. Asking for a bribe, he is.

"It's a nice company you got here, be a shame if something happened to it."

[tanyev]

4. "I got billions of views, so it's OK."

Pathetic needy narcissist.

[Javaman]

6. So basically he wants to keep it because of his fragile ego nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. 'I don't know what this is': Prosecutor buries Trump's new 'Legally Blonde' court filing

This filing made no sense to me

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tiktok-2670695256/

A baffled MSNBC host and an amused Florida prosecutor attempted to make sense of a brief submitted by Donald Trump's lawyers to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a possible ban of the popular TikTok app.

With the court poised to rule on the ban, an attorney for the president-elect -submitted a brief on Friday asking the judges to hold off on hearing the case until the president-elect is sworn in so he can attempt to negotiate a compromise......

Speaking with State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg, MSNBC host Christina Ruffini professed, "Does the president even have standing to do this? And what kind of a motion is this? Is this an amicus brief, a writ? I don't know what this is. Can he just involve himself in a case that he is not, you know, a party to? "

The laughing Aronberg replied, "These are all great questions; I had the same questions, too, because normally, Supreme Court? You've got this very buttoned-up group of lawyers who argue specific legal issues, and here's Trump, coming in like a bull in a china shop."

"It's like the movie 'Legally Blonde' when he comes in and just starts spouting off, like 'I have a huge electoral mandate, I'm the smartest and the best, and I can negotiate, so just pause everything, let me step in and let me handle this!'" he joked.

"There's nothing in the law that says he can do that, but he's Donald Trump," the prosecutor explained. "He appointed three out of these nine justices, so he thinks he can do it. I don't know if the Supreme Court is going to go along with it, but it is really interesting that Trump, who often thinks he's above the law, is now doing something I've never seen before in front of the Supreme Court."