Trump defends u-turn on TikTok ban: 'Everything's a threat'
During a question-and-answer session at the Economic Club of Chicago, Trump, 78, was asked “why do you no longer see TikTok as a security threat” after he vowed over the summer to “never” shut down the short-form video host.
“Frankly, I think everything’s a threat. There’s nothing that’s not a threat, but sometimes you have to fight through these threats,” he added. “Just like Google. I’m not a fan of Google. They treat me badly.
“To me, it was a flip of a coin,” The former president reflected Tuesday. “You know, you have some real First Amendment problems. You have a lot of problems with it.”Most Republicans in both chambers of Congress had backed the April legislation, citing concerns about ByteDance’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party .
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