Former President Donald Trump has blatantly flip-flopped on TikTok and China. As president, Trump ordered that TikTok find an American owner or be “shut down” in the United States. Now, he says banning TikTok would be a grave mistake.

President Trump was right back then, and former President Trump is wrong today. As my colleague Tom Rogan explained, the communist Chinese government requires loyalty from ByteDance, and there’s every reason to believe that all data gathered by TikTok become the property of the People’s Republic of China. There’s plenty of evil the communist dictatorship can do with the data.