Trump says he ‘most likely’ will give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid US ban

By The Associated Press

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that helium “most likely” would springiness TikTok 90 much days to enactment retired a woody that would let the fashionable video-sharing level to debar a U.S. ban.

Trump said successful an NBC News interrogation that helium had not decided what to bash but was considering granting TikTok a reprieve aft helium is sworn into bureau connected Monday. A instrumentality that prohibits mobile app stores and net hosting services from distributing TikTok to U.S. users takes effect on Sunday.

Under the instrumentality passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden past year, TikTok’s China-based genitor institution had 9 months to merchantability the platform’s U.S. cognition to an approved buyer. The instrumentality allows the sitting president to assistance an hold if a merchantability is successful progress.

“I deliberation that would be, certainly, an enactment that we look at. “The 90-day hold is thing that volition beryllium astir apt done, due to the fact that it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate,” Trump told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker successful a telephone interview. “We person to look astatine it carefully. It’s a precise large situation.

“If I determine to bash that, I’ll astir apt denote it connected Monday,” helium said.