Former President Donald Trump is attempting to tie brewing legislation potentially banning TikTok to President Joe Biden as he courts young voters.
The House advanced legislation Saturday included in the foreign aid bills, forcing the sale of TikTok from its Chinese owners within a year to avoid a ban in the United States. The Senate is widely expected to pass the legislation this week, and Biden will likely sign it into law. Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday that Biden is “responsible for banning TikTok” and that “young people,” among others, “must remember this” on Election Day in November.
“Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok. He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant, and able to continue to fight, perhaps illegally, the Republican Party,” the former president wrote in a post.
“Young people, and lots …