(Bloomberg) -- After years of working to assure the US government that its popular social media app isn’t a threat to national security, TikTok’s loss in...
-- After years of working to assure the US government that its popular social media app isn’t a threat to national security , TikTok’s loss in that fight now seems almost inevitable.Trump Has Only $6.8 Million for Legal Fees With Trial Underway
Instead of hitting the airwaves on traditional news media channels popular with the DC set in the days leading up to the House vote, the company gave a TikTokker an interview with Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of policy and a key part of its lobbying efforts.
The broad legislation, which passed on a 360 to 58 vote in the House Saturday, also would place new restrictions on data brokers selling information to foreign adversaries, and authorize the confiscation of frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine. Years of scrutiny over the app’s connection to China spans presidential administrations, political parties and arms of the government. Former President Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok via an executive order that was set aside under Biden, whose administration oversaw a review by the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States.
NEW YORK — “Sir, can you please have a seat.” Donald Trump had stood up to leave the Manhattan criminal courtroom as Justice Juan M. Merchan was wrapping up a scheduling discussion Tuesday. But the judge had not yet adjourned the court or left the bench. Trump, the 45th president of the United States and the owner of his own company, is used to setting his own pace. Still, when Merchan admonished him to sit back down, the former president did so without saying a word.
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