If Biden is going after TikTok, will Trump back the app?


IN response to a question in a 30-second video on June 7, former United States president Donald Trump said he would never ban TikTok, a major reversal from his earlier ambiguous stand toward the app owned by Chinese firm ByteDance.

Some three months ago, Trump had repeated his argument that TikTok endangers national security in the US in an interview with CNBC, while justifying the need for it to continue to exist in the US.

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