Arthur Delaney started working for HuffPost in 2009. He covers politics and the economy. Previously he wrote for the Washington City Paper, The Hill newspaper, Slate Magazine, and ABCNews.com.
Former President Donald Trump has said that young voters should blame President Joe Biden if the US government bans the popular social media app TikTok, even though Trump supported such a ban when he was president.
Congress is on the verge of passing a bill that would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell TikTok in less than a year or else see the video-sharing platform banned from US app stores. Biden supports the policy and has said he would sign the bill into law.“Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok,” Trump.
Trump’s statement slamming Biden for the TikTok ban is a remarkable reversal for the former president, who issued anin August 2020 banning TikTok absent a divestiture by ByteDance ― essentially the same policy now under consideration. TikTok said at the time that the forced divestiture and ban would violate First Amendment and due process rights and was just a pretext for Trump’s “broader campaign of anti-China rhetoric in the run-up to the US election.”before it could take effect. A bill passed by Congress would likely face legal challenges as well.
Former President Donald Trump issued an executive order in 2020 that sought to achieve virtually the same thing as the bill that President Joe Biden is now supporting.. The bill stalled in the Senate, but over the weekend the House passed another TikTok ban, this time as part of a broader bill that includes a variety of foreign policy provisions popular with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. It now looks more likely than ever that the TikTok divestiture bill could become law.
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