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His administration will lie, because TikTok has made it clear they will not divest in order to stay in the USA.

But so what? His administration, and he himself, lied about a bunch of stuff during his previous term, and what happened? Nothing. Never tried, never convicted (he was impeached, but so what?)

We do not have a mechanism for dealing with a president or administration that is willing to just lie. Even if the SCOTUS were to determine that the administration did in fact lie about certifying those things, so what? Nothing will happen.




> We do not have a mechanism for dealing with a president or administration that is willing to just lie

Of course we do. We’ll just fine Apple, Google and Oracle tens of billions of dollars if they don’t cut ties with Bytedance. The law can be patient.

I advocated for this bill. My personal guess is the tech companies bend at the knee and then pay for a new train system in New York or whatever.




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