A spokesperson for the newly elected president, Donald J. Trump, said to The New York Times:” He did offer.” TikTok, the Chinese-owned video software set to be banned in the United States in two and a half times. Mr. Trump’s team says he does “deliver” on those promises — though the details are blurry. ” The American people re-elected President Trump by a spectacular ratio, giving him a mission to adopt the promises he made on the plan trail”, Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Mr. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance’s transition team, said in a statement. ” He will deliver “.Mr. Trump’s support for TikTok would be a magnificent turnaround from his 2020 attempts to censor it in the US and compel its sale to American businesses because of its possession by ByteDance, a Chinese tech company, in 2020. A federal law signed in April says TikTok, which has 170 million U. S. people, may be sold to a non-Chinese business by Jan. 19 — a day before Mr. Trump’s inauguration — or face a restrictions in the United States. The firm claimed in a Hail Mary lawsuit that a purchase is difficult, at least in part due to restrictions from the Chinese government, and that a later ban may violate the First Amendment. However, the bill received a lot of bipartisan support, and some experts think a Washington federal court may support the government. The post articles is retrievable with difficulty. In your browser’s settings, kindly help Browser. Thank you for your patience while accessibility is verified. If you are in Audience mode please leave and log into your Times accounts, or listen for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while accessibility is verified. Now a customer? Register in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.