Posted on 04/22/2024 5:30:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Former President Donald Trump renewed on Monday his new-found opposition to a potential TikTok ban—which he had sought as president—blaming President Joe Biden for its possible passage and claiming it would only boost Facebook.
Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that “Crooked Joe Biden” is “responsible” for a potential TikTok ban, claiming Biden “is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant.”
Facebook parent company Meta and spokespeople for Biden’s re-election campaign did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment.
Trump’s comments come two days after the House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package paving the way for a potential TikTok ban while also providing funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan—which TikTok blasted as “unfortunate,” saying the bill would “trample the free speech rights of 170 million Americans” who use the app.
If signed into law, the bill would give TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance nine months to sell the company or else face a ban in the U.S.—a previous version of the bill gave ByteDance just six months to divest the app.
While Trump pursued a TikTok ban when he was in office, he has been more critical in recent months of an outright ban: Last month, Trump claimed a ban on TikTok would result in rival Facebook becoming “bigger,” slamming the Meta-owned platform as the “enemy of the people” in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” and claimed days later that TikTok is “less of a danger to the USA than Meta.”
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Banning TikTok will only lead to banning more sites.
Banning TikTok will be blamed on the GOP because people like goober backstabber phony Mike Johnson put it in the bill.
Young people will be really angry and it will damage the the 2024 chances.
If the RATS are down with banning TikTok you surely know that something has to stink and it has to do with the IC snooping and tyranny.
Trump doesn’t want to ban TikTok.
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