The popular platform 'is about free speech and innovation,' the donor has said.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a Super Tuesday election night party, Mar. 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.As Donald Trump reverses his position on potentially banning TikTok ahead of an expected House vote this week on legislation that could lead to it being blocked in the U.S.
But speaking at the Club for Growth retreat, Trump said Yass, in addition to Club for Growth President David McIntosh, had called him to invite him to the event, according to a video clip from that night obtained by ABC News. Under the legislation currently being considered in Congress, ByteDance would be forced to sell TikTok to an American company for the social media platform to remain operating in the United States.to send the bill to the floor for a full vote, with the legislation now set to be debated and voted on this week, and Biden has said he will sign the bill if Congress passes it.
While in the White House, Trump signed an order calling on ByteDance to divest from TikTok's U.S. operations, but it was later blocked in court. And Yass, who was opposed to Trump earlier in the 2016 cycle but still bankrolled Club for Growth after the group supported Trump as the GOP's presumptive nominee, said in September 2022 that he was considering supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 nominating race, not Trump.
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