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President Donald Trump signaled Saturday a woody could beryllium underway soon to "save" TikTok from a looming ban, and Republican authorities attorneys wide – galore skeptical of the app's information – are waiting to spot if it comes to fruition.
"I person spoken to galore radical astir TikTok and determination is large involvement successful TikTok," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One connected a formation to Florida, Reuters reported.
The reported woody Trump is moving connected involves partnering with bundle institution Oracle and a radical of extracurricular investors to instrumentality power of the app's operations. According to sources acquainted with the matter, ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese genitor company, would support a involvement successful the level nether the projected deal. However, Oracle would instrumentality power of information absorption and bundle updates, leveraging its existing relation successful supporting TikTok’s web infrastructure, 2 sources told Reuters.
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"President Trump has repeatedly expressed his tendency to prevention TikTok, and there’s nary amended dealmaker than Donald Trump," Trump's nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt antecedently told Fox News Digital.
Several Republican authorities attorneys wide person actively pursued actions to prohibition TikTok, citing nationalist information concerns and imaginable information privateness issues. In December 2024, 22 attorneys general, including those from Virginia and Montana, filed an amicus little urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the "divest-or-ban" instrumentality against TikTok. The instrumentality mandates that TikTok's genitor company, ByteDance, divest its U.S. operations oregon look a imaginable prohibition owed to nationalist information concerns.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton besides initiated ineligible action against TikTok earlier this month, alleging "TikTok lied astir its information standards and concealed the information astir the prevalence of inappropriate and explicit material," according to his office's quality release. Paxton's suit doesn't notation the app's ban.
A root adjacent to several Republican authorities attorneys wide told Fox News Digital connected Monday that they're assured if anyone tin marque a woody to support the U.S. from the Chinese Communist Party, it's Trump, but if it poses a menace to nationalist security, past it should beryllium banned.
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Republicans aren't the lone ones acrophobic astir TikTok. Several Democratic authorities attorneys wide person actively pursued legal actions against the societal media app, too. In October 2024, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and New York Attorney General Letitia James, on with 12 different states and the District of Columbia, filed a suit alleging that TikTok exploits and harms young users and deceives the nationalist astir the societal media platform’s dangers.
While Trump tried to prohibition the app from U.S. entree during his archetypal administration, helium credited TikTok for reaching young voters during the 2024 statesmanlike campaign.
TikTok went acheronian earlier this period aft ByteDance had 9 months to merchantability TikTok to an approved purchaser but opted, on with TikTok, to instrumentality ineligible enactment against the law. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law, citing nationalist information risks due to the fact that of its ties to China.
The app was reinstated for U.S. users the pursuing day, with Trump promising an enforcement bid to widen TikTok's sale.
"Welcome back!" the TikTok connection read. "Thank you for your patience and support. As a effect of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is backmost successful the U.S.!"
Fox News Digital has reached retired to TikTok for comment.
Fox Business' Alexandra Koch, Bradford Betz and Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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