President Donald Trump said on June 29 that he has found a buyer for the Chinese-owned short video application TikTok, and that he will reveal the group in roughly two weeks.
Trump made the comments in an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
He had signed an executive order on June 19 extending the deadline for the sale of TikTok by another 90 days, giving the company until Sept. 17 to divest itself from its Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States.
However, Trump signaled on Sunday that TikTok might not need until the end of the summer to reach a divestment deal....