Incoming US president Donald Trump has asked a court to delay the deadline for TikTok's potential sale, arguing he should have time to pursue a 'political resolution' to the issue.
The TikTok logo is pictured outside the company's US head office in Culver City, California on Sep 15, 2020. (File photo: REUTERS/Mike Blake)or force its sale, with the Republican US president-elect arguing that he should have time after taking office to pursue a'political resolution' to the issue. TikTok and its owner ByteDance are fighting to keep the popular app online in the US after Congress voted in April to ban it unless the app's Chinese parent company sells it by Jan 19.
The court is set to hear arguments in the case on Jan 10. But if the court does not rule in ByteDance's favour and no divestment occurs, the app could be effectively banned in the US on Jan 19, one day before Trump takes office. 'This case presents an unprecedented, novel, and difficult tension between free-speech rights on one side, and foreign policy and national security concerns on the other,' Trump said in a filing on Friday (Dec 27). 'Such a stay would vitally grant President Trump the opportunity to pursue a political resolution that could obviate the court's need to decide these constitutionally significant questions,' the filing added. Trump's support for TikTok is a reversal from 2020, when he tried to block the app in the US and force its sale to American companies because of its Chinese ownership. It also shows the significant effort by the company to forge inroads with Trump and his team during the presidential campaign. 'President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute,' said D. John Sauer, Trump's lawyer who is also the president-elect's pick for US solicitor general. 'Instead, he respectfully requests that the court consider staying the Act's deadline for divestment of Jan 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case, thus permitting President Trump's incoming administration the opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case,' he adde
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