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0 pointsrvz1y ago0 comments

So once again it took the incoming president-elect Trump and for Biden to lose to intervene and reverse this ban and give an extension to TikTok.

If Biden or Harris won the election, TikTok would have been completely banned with zero intervention at all as you have seen with how it went and Biden whilst still being president would have done nothing and it took Trump to stop it.

Seriously the Democrats made themselves look very bad with this situation.

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watwut1y ago· 2 in thread

Trump literally originated it back then.

Trump is not a president yet.

krainboltgreene1y ago

Trump singed an EO that was reversed. Only one president showed interest in a law. Only one president whipped votes for that law. Only one president signed the law.

rvzOP1y ago

You realize that is even worse for the Democrats? So why didn't Biden stop it? He had plenty of time to do so and he did not and signed it.

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pell1y ago

The ban had bi-partisan support. Trump was initially for the ban and then changed his mind. On Aug. 6, 2020, Trump signed Executive Order 13942, which sought to ban TikTok in response to national security concerns. Courts struck it down.

He expressed his changed opinion in 2024. Was it because he met with Jeff Yass who holds 7% of ByteDance (which owns TikTok) and is a major Republican donor? Who knows.

But what is clear is that this is again morphing into a talking point against the Democrats even though all of this started with Trump initially.

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