Trump will toss TikTok another lifeline, pushing back its sell-by date for a third time

The TikTok app logo appears in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2020. Kiichiro Sato/AP

Kiichiro Sato/AP

President Trump said he will once again give the short video app TikTok a reprieve, five months after the start date of a federal law banning it in the U.S. unless it splits with its Beijing-based owner, ByteDance.

“We’ll be extending it. We’re going to extend it,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “We’re going to probably make a deal – I think we’ll need China’s blessing on it.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Trump would sign

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