JD Vance tapped to spearhead scouting mission for TikTok buyer

Vice President JD Vance was reportedly tapped Friday to forge a woody to prevention TikTok.

President Trump has assigned Vance to find a purchaser for the fashionable Chinese-owned societal media app up of an April 5 deadline for it to beryllium sold oregon unopen down.

Vance, who ran a hedge money earlier moving for office, volition beryllium looking to find a deep-pocketed tech titan to snap up the American operations of the app.

TikTok app logo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, a longtime harsh professional of China, volition also beryllium portion of the effort led by Vance, Punchbowl News archetypal reported.

Congressional hawks from some parties person agelong warned astir the nationalist information menace posed by TikTok due to the fact that it tin entree the information of its 170 cardinal American users.

Republicans and Democrats agreed to overwhelmingly walk a measure ordering TikTok’s China-based genitor company, ByteDance, to sell the app’s U.S. operations by January 19, the time earlier Trump’s inauguration, oregon beryllium unopen down.

Trump, who erstwhile harshly criticized TikTok, flip-flopped to motion an enforcement bid connected his archetypal time successful bureau delaying for 75 days the enforcement of the law.

Now the White House is nether unit to forge a woody that tin appease blimpish China hawks portion keeping blessed the legions of Americans who usage the app for everything from e-commerce to comic feline videos and governmental takes crossed the governmental spectrum.

Many potential buyers person been enactment forward including Microsoft, Trump state Elon Musk oregon a radical fronted by billionaire Frank McCourt and “Shark Tank” prima Kevin O’Leary.

Trump has floated the thought of the federal authorities taking a involvement successful TikTok done the caller sovereign wealthiness money helium launched.