Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban
- He says he wants time to seek a ‘negotiated resolution’
- Biden administration says Chinese control of app is threat
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President-elect Donald Trump thrust himself into the high-stakes fight over the fate of TikTok in the US by urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban the social media platform if it isn’t sold by its Chinese parent company.
Trump said the court should give him time after his Jan. 20 inauguration to “seek a negotiated resolution” of the dispute. He didn’t take a firm position on the constitutionality of the law that’s set to take effect Jan. 19, though he said it raised “sweeping and troubling” free speech concerns.