On Friday, Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to suspend the law which threatens the social network TikTok with an imminent ban in the United States, if its Chinese parent company does not sell it.
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In a letter written by Donald Trump’s lawyers and addressed to the Supreme Court, the future American president says he opposes this measure “at this stage” and wants to resolve the situation once he returns to the White House, on January 20, the day after the potential entry into force of this ban.
“President Trump is the only one with the expertise to make deals, the mandate to vote, and the political will to negotiate a solution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the state” , we explain in the letter.
AFP
Last April, Congress overwhelmingly voted in favor of a law requiring TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell its American activities before January 19, otherwise the application would be banned in the United States.
It aims to prevent the risks of espionage and manipulation by the Chinese authorities of TikTok users, which claims 170 million in the United States.
TikTok, which has repeatedly contested having transmitted information to the Chinese government, then turned to the Supreme Court where a majority of conservative judges sit. The High Court agreed in mid-December to study the request for examination of the constitutionality of this law on January 10.
Recently, Donald Trump met with TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, repeatedly expressing his support for the social network.
Initially opposed to the application, the future American president now believes that it has allowed him to reach a young audience and recently declared that he had a “soft spot” for it.
