Donald Trump Signs TikTok Executive Order, Pardons About 1,500 January 6th Defendants; New POTUS Holds Impromptu Live Oval Office Press Conference
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Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office to sign a series of pardons and executive orders, including his promise to delay implementation of a law restricting TikTok.
The order delays implementation of a law for 90 days, Trump said, as he said that he was determined to find a buyer and work out an arrangement in which the U.S.
owns 50% of the platform. Trump said that the order “gives him the right to sell it or close it,” although he said that he may need to get an approval from China.
He insisted that “TikTok is worthless if I don’t approve it.” The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, has given no indication that it was willing to sell the social media platform since Congress passed the divest-or-be-banned law in an overwhelming bipartisan vote last week.
