"Following months of delays, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that's supposed to "save" TikTok. Trump claims the deal will make the app "American-operated," fulfilling the divest-or-ban law that threatened the China-owned app's presence in the US. But the Trump administration didn't reveal any information about who will own TikTok's US operations, or how much they'll own. And questions remain about whether the new agreement - and the steps taken to get there - is even legal."
""The TikTok saga has been the single clearest articulation, the single most vivid example of the lawlessness of this administration, of its imperial conception of itself as above the rule of law,""
""The President was purporting to extend deadlines that he had no power to extend,""
""What in reality he was doing was just not doing his job and giving himself weird 90-day fake deadlines to do his job again.""
President Donald Trump signed an executive order presented as a move to "save" TikTok and to make the app American-operated. The administration did not disclose who will own TikTok's US operations or the size of any ownership stakes. Significant legal questions persist about the legality of the new agreement and the processes used to reach it. Enforcement deadlines for the divest-or-ban law were postponed multiple times, effectively creating repeated 90-day delays. Those deadline extensions appeared to lack clear legal authority and postponed enforcement from January through four successive deadline adjustments, most recently to December 16th.
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