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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Martyn Landi

Trump says TikTok sale deal will be in place before Saturday deadline

The US president said there were ‘a lot of potential buyers’ (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) - (AP)

US President Donald Trump has said a deal for TikTok’s Chinese parent firm to sell the platform will be in place before a deadline on Saturday.

The April 5 deadline was set by the president when he entered office in January, with ByteDance having until then to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok’s US business or face a ban on national security grounds.

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