Trump’s weakness on TikTok remains a vulnerability

Published February 14, 2025 3:38pm ET



While President Donald Trump’s moral leadership on the world stage is welcome in Gaza and other areas of the world, his capitulation to TikTok and the Chinese Communist Party is still a glaring flaw.

TikTok has been returned to the Apple and Google app stores after being assured by Attorney General Pam Bondi that they would not face fines for platforming the app. It is another deliberate undermining of the law passed by Congress that required TikTok to cut ties with CCP-allied Chinese company ByteDance, after Trump gave the app a 75-day extension in seeking a deal.

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