ByteDance director says TikTok deal will get done

I have the unique constitutional responsibility for the national security of the United States, the conduct of foreign policy, and other vital executive functions,

Trump wrote

We may have to get an approval from China too. I’m not sure. But I’m sure they’ll approve it. If they don’t approve it, it would be somewhat of a hostile act, I think.”

He then added

TikTok is one poker chip in the broader game of high-stakes poker between China and the US,

Wedbush Securities managing director Dan Ives told CNN

Why would I want to get rid of TikTok?”

Earlier this month he posted stats about pro-Trump accounts and videos on the app while asking

I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture,

Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday, suggesting “a joint venture between the current owners and/or new owners.”

I'm not going to be the decision maker there. You know, this is President Trump's deal now it's in his ... administration, and you know, it will all get sorted out,

McCourt said

I'm okay with whatever is legal … and the U.S. government is OK with,

McCourt told CNBC in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

So if Project Liberty, or anybody else ... buys U.S. Tiktok and does a poor job, the underlying technology will allow that whole user base to go to a different app that's doing a better job,

he added

We're not flexible about the values and principles of Project Liberty, right?"

he added

We’ll get on with it, as soon as maybe the end of the week in terms of negotiating what might work… The Chinese government, the US government and the company and the board all have to be involved in this conversation,

Ford said, adding

The president does not have the power to suspend the law, that’s not a presidential power. And so to the extent that Trump is saying the law is not enforced, no one’s violating it – those are not legally meaningful statements,

said Alan Rozenshtein, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who specializes in tech law

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It’s not clear to me that any member of Congress would be likely to sue Donald Trump,

Chander said

Dan Deaconamerican musician

I really imagine that for these companies that it’s really just a cost-benefit analysis about it’s either worth it or not to engage in activity that’s subjecting me to some level of risk that my lawyers are informing me of,

Deacon added

At the same time, companies that are violating the law are still violating the law. So they are still at risk of pretty substantial legal exposure,

Rozenshtein added

Often, the problem with non-enforcement is it’s removing legal burdens instead of imposing them. So people in some sense are benefited rather than hurt,

said Zachary Price, a legal scholar at the University of California College of the Law San Francisco who has written about criminal and civil law enforcement

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Companies that choose not to comply are thinking, ‘There’s some risk that the executive order could be rescinded, they could come after me,

said Daniel Deacon, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School who is an expert in administrative law

There’s then a second question, which is, courts are often reluctant to review enforcement choices,

he added

The unfortunate timing of section 2(a) of the Act — one day before I took office as the 47th President of the United States — interferes with my ability to assess the national security and foreign policy implications of the Act’s prohibitions before they take effect,

Trump’s executive order said

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I tell you what. Every rich person has called me about TikTok."

Mr Trump said in the Oval Office after he swore the Presidential oath

It would be somewhat of a hostile act" if Beijing rejected an arrangement

the President added