Despite law, US TikTok ban likely to remain on hold

US President Donald Trump is widely expected to extend the Thursday deadline for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the United States.

It would be the third time Trump put off enforcing a federal law requiring its sale or ban, which was to take effect the day before his January inauguration.

“I have a little warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” Trump said in an NBC News interview in early May.

“If it needs an extension, I would be willing to give it an extension.”

Trump said a group of purchasers is ready to pay TikTok owner ByteDance “a…