Trump Push for TikTok Fee Confounds Washington Security Experts – Bloomberg

President Donald Trump insists that any sale of the TikTok video app include a cut for the federal government, yet that demand has baffled policy experts and lawyers who say such a payment would stretch his authority under U.S. law.
The fee has emerged as an unusual sideshow in the administration’s effort to pressure China’s
ByteDance Ltd. to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to an American owner over national security concerns. Since calling for the sale last month, Trump has repeatedly said he …

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