Trump Urges Supreme Court to Halt TikTok Ban While His Administration Works Out a ‘Negotiated Resolution’

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor President-elect Donald Trump believes he can cut a deal that would keep TikTok legal — while addressing the U.S.

government’s national security concerns. TikTok, under a law passed this year, faces a looming deadline that will make the video app illegal in the U.S.

by Jan. 19 unless Chinese parent ByteDance divests its ownership stake. TikTok challenged the law on First Amendment grounds, and after losing an appellate court ruling is seeking an emergency injunction from the Supreme Court to block the law from taking effect.

Trump, in an amicus brief filed on his behalf with the Supreme Court on Friday, asked the high court to stay the Jan. 19 deadline — one day before Trump takes office — in order to “grant more breathing space to address these issues.” “President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government — concerns which President Trump himself has acknowledged,” the brief says.