If Trump Wants To ‘Save’ TikTok, He Might Need It To Get Banned First

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If Trump Wants To ‘Save’ TikTok, He Might Need It To Get Banned First
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If the Supreme Court doesn’t stay the TikTok law, Trump can blame Biden for a shutdown, then give TikTok an extension and tell the world he “saved” it.

If the Supreme Court doesn’t stay the TikTok law, Trump can blame Biden for a shutdown on his last day in office, then give TikTok a 3-month extension and tell the world he “saved” it.that could take the app offline as soon as January 19, CEO Shou Zi Chew met with President-elect Donald Trump to plead his case. But it may actually help Trump politically for the ban to go into effect.

The Supreme Court could grant the injunction as a favor to Trump, who might even try to intervene in the case on behalf of TikTok. But Trump mightTikTok to be banned on Joe Biden’s last day in office. If that were to happen, he could be its hero. This stroke of realpolitik would leave ByteDance in a tricky spot. A three month extension would be welcome, but ByteDance has said it will not sell. What it really wants is to be able to keep operating TikTok itself — and an extension would give the company time to try to persuade Trump that something short of a full divestment is adequate.

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