TikTok may still go dark Sunday…but (apologies to Tony Campolo) Monday’s coming!
“President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview Saturday that he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban in the U.S. after he takes office Monday.
“Trump said he hadn’t made a final decision but was considering a 90-day extension of the Sunday deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell to a non-Chinese-buyer or face a U.S. ban.”
Trump’s announced intention to possibly grant ByteDance a 90 day extension to sell TikTok means nothing until something actually happens. But it’s somewhat more likely than Liz Cheney in jail. Or the post-inauguration Trump tariffs.
And Trump (or, for that matter, Biden) has the power to grant such an extension.
“A 90-day extension under specific conditions is explicitly allowed for in the bipartisan law passed last year.”
But think about it.
- Congress deemed ByteDance ownership of TikTok as a national security threat.
- The Supreme Court agreed that Congress acted in accordance with the Constitution (I.e. the First Amendment) in making that determination.
- In a show of unity, Biden and Trump decided, “Never mind.”
In the political world, deadlines are but a dream.
Bredemarket 
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