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Trump says Biden would be ‘responsible’ for any TikTok ban - and that it’s to ‘help his friends over at Facebook become richer’
- Seeking youth vote, Donald Trump tries to blame US President Joe Biden for TikTok ban bill
- Trump attempted to ban the company and Chinese-owned WeChat when he was president
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that US President Joe Biden was “pushing” for a ban on TikTok and would be the one responsible if a ban were imposed, urging voters to take notice.
The US House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation on a 360-58 vote on Saturday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about nine months to divest its US operations or face a ban.
The bill now moves to the Senate. If it passes there, Biden has said he would sign it into law.
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Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday that Biden would be “responsible for banning TikTok. He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant”.
Trump then urged younger voters – who make up a significant portion of the TikTok user base – to consider Biden’s position on Election Day.
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However, when he was president in 2020, Trump himself sought to ban TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat over national security concerns but was blocked by the courts.
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