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Trump as soon as tried to ban TikTok. Why has he modified his tune?

Editorial Board Published December 30, 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court docket on Friday to pause implementation of a legislation that will ban TikTok in the USA efficient Jan. 19. The legislation will ban the app until it’s offered by its Chinese language father or mother firm, ByteDance.

Trump desires to delay the ban a minimum of till he assumes workplace on Jan. 20, additionally Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so he can use his alleged “consummate dealmaking expertise” to handle ongoing nationwide safety considerations with the Chinese language platform. 

“President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute,” D. John Sauer, Trump’s lawyer and decide for U.S. solicitor common, wrote in a 25-page submitting. “Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the Act’s deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case, thus permitting President Trump’s incoming Administration the opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case.”

“In light of these interests—including, most importantly, his overarching responsibility for the United States’ national security and foreign policy—President Trump opposes banning TikTok in the United States at this juncture, and seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office,” Sauer added.

Notably, Trump’s legal professionals tried to play up his affect on social media, claiming that Trump is “one of the most powerful, prolific, and influential users of social media in history.” 

Trump is highly effective, certainly, however influential is extra of a head-scratcher. If something, Trump used social media as a bully pulpit and to dam customers who dared to disagree with him.

Friday’s submitting comes forward of the Jan. 10 oral arguments on whether or not the legislation violates the First Modification by unlawfully limiting speech. The invoice garnered bipartisan help and was signed into legislation by President Joe Biden in April, although it’s been challenged by TikTok. 

Earlier this month, a panel of federal judges unanimously upheld the legislation, main TikTok to enchantment the case to the Supreme Court docket.

Although Sauer advised the excessive court docket that Trump has no place on the authorized arguments being made for or towards the legislation, the temporary referred to the First Modification implications as “sweeping and troubling.” Trump’s lawyer additionally warned about setting a “dangerous global precedent” towards authorities censorship.

It’s not instantly clear why Trump, who tried to ban the app in 2020, is out of the blue determined to put it aside after his preliminary effort failed within the courts. When operating for his second time period, Trump vowed to “save TikTok” however notably neglected specifics on how he’d do this. TikTok boasts greater than 170 million customers in the USA.


TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew

In fact, Trump’s former assertion will not be true. Whereas the president-elect did make inroads with younger voters in comparison with previous Republican presidential candidates, exit polls present that he nonetheless misplaced voters between the ages of 18 and 29 to Vice President Kamala Harris.

It’s considerably stunning, then, that Trump’s legal professionals are making the false argument that the person who can’t even efficiently negotiate offers with Congress someway possesses the flexibility to hammer out a decision to save lots of TikTok. 

Trump is without doubt one of the worst presidential dealmakers in fashionable historical past, so why ought to he be trusted now?

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