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To clarify, back in 2020, Trump sought to colombia b2b leads ban TikTok in the U.S. not because of national security concerns, but in order to get back at China for the spread of COVID-19. In order to do this, Trump issued an executive order to ban the app, but the justification for such was found to be insufficient, and the Trump Administration’s approach lacked the evidence required to implement a ban on the app.


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Which is why the Biden Administration abandoned the original TikTok sell-off push in 2021, but even then, security agencies were assessing the TikTok threat, and had seemingly already found evidence to suggest that Chinese-based groups were using the app to seed pro-China content, and/or extract information on users.

We don’t know exactly what they found, because they’ve opted to keep the full details out of the public domain. But it was this secondary push that eventually led to the formation of the now-approved TikTok sell-off bill.

So while Trump did try to ban it in 2020, and it seems like a major turnaround for him to go from the app’s biggest enemy to its savior, that narrative isn’t quite correct. The two actions are separate, and had separate reasoning and justification.