“I believe this was the right decision for Twitter,” Dorsey said in a series of tweets. “We faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to focus all of our actions on public safety. Offline harm as a result of online speech is demonstrably real, and what drives our policy and enforcement above all.”

That said, having to ban an account has real and significant ramifications. While there are clear and obvious exceptions, I feel a ban is a failure of ours ultimately to promote healthy conversation. And a time for us to reflect on our operations and the environment around us.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

On January 8, Twitter suspended Trump’s account permanently after thousands of his supporters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC, and clashed with the police. The microblogging website had first temporarily suspended Donald Trump’s account later imposed the permanent ban, citing, “risk of further incitement of violence”. Apart from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have also blocked Trump’s accounts for policy violations.

In his tweets, Dorsey said he took no pride in the ban. “ After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,” he wrote.

The Twitter CEO acknowledged that the ban could have “significant ramifications”. Dorsey also said that he felt the decision to suspend the account was a failure on the company’s part to promote a healthy conversation.

“Having to take these actions to fragment the public conversation,” he said. “They divide us. They limit the potential for clarification, redemption, and learning. And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation.”

Dorsey said that internet companies, including Twitter, should look at inconsistencies in their policy and how their service can incentivise distraction and harm. “Yes, we need more transparency in our moderation operations,” he said. ‘All this can’t erode a free and open global internet.”

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Trump is the only president to be impeached twice.

According to the article of impeachment, Trump “repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the presidential election results were fraudulent and should not be accepted”.

Ten Republicans, including the House’s top senior Republican, Liz Cheney of Wyoming, joined all Democrats to impeach Trump.

Impeachment may not force Trump from office, but the vote was an instant response from lawmakers in both parties furious at Trump after a deadly pro-Trump mob ransacked the US Capitol and put the lives of Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers in danger last week. Trump won’t face trial until after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in next week.

After the House vote, Trump released a video statement calling for calm as the threat of a new riot cast an impending danger on Washington. But he did not mention the historic impeachment. Trump never showed repentance for his role in the Captiol Hill siege.

What will happen next?

The Senate which is the upper chamber of the legislature will have to hold a trial. If convicted, Donald Trump could be barred from running for office ever again. A two-third majority is required in the Senate for the conviction to take place.

The Senate is divided equally between the two parties. The Democrats will need at least 17 Republicans to vote in favour of the article of impeachment. New York Times reported that nearly 20 Republicans are open to voting against Donald Trump. If a conviction doesn’t happen then the president is considered impeached but not removed from office.

Donald Trump was first impeached just a year ago over allegations of improperly seeking help from Ukraine to boost his chances of re-election. He was accused of seeking damaging information from the foreign country about his political rival Joe Biden. However, he was cleared by a majority of senators at his trial.

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According to media projections, Democrat Biden has won the November 3 presidential election. However, Trump, a Republican, has alleged election fraud and mounted legal fights in a number of battleground states.

“More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden said in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday, responding to a question on President Donald Trump refusing to concede the election and the outgoing administration not co-operating in the transition process.

“A vaccine is important. It’s of little use until you’re vaccinated. So, how do we get the vaccine, how do we get over 300 million Americans vaccinated? What’s the game plan? It’s a huge, huge, huge undertaking to get it done, prioritise those greatest in need and working our way through, and also cooperate with the World Health Organiszation and the rest of the world in dealing with this,” he said.

“So they (Trump administration) say they have this ‘Warp Speed’ programme that not only dealt with getting vaccines, but also how to distribute this. If we have to wait until January 20th (day of Presidential inauguration) to start that planning, it puts us behind over a month, month-and-a-half. And so, it’s important that it be done, that there be coordination now, now or as rapidly as we can get that done,” Biden said.

As of now, Biden said his action plan is to deal with every individual, organisation in the country from business to labour, Republicans and Democrats, to try to pull together a serious and consistent plan so that he is ready on day one with everything from staffing to ultimately naming cabinet members to moving along on coordinating with business and labour, the COVID-19 outbreak.

And so, it would make it a lot easier if the president were to participate. We have a number of Republicans suggesting that–the good news here is my colleague is still on the Intelligence Committee so she gets the intelligence briefings. I don’t anymore. But there’s a number of Republicans calling for that, he said.

“My message is I will work with you. I understand a lot of your reluctance because of the way the president operates, but I’ve been in contact with and will be in contact with more of them as we move along. And if it has to wait until January 20th to get–to actually become operational, that’s a shame but it may be that’s the only way to get it done,” he said.

Biden was also asked about his thoughts on Trump’s tweet over the weekend where he first seemed to acknowledge that Biden had won the election. However, soon after Trump said he would not concede, and that he had won.

“I interpret that as Trumping-ism, no change in his modus operandi. And I think the pressure will continue to build,” he said.

The President-elect said that he is having a lot of meetings with world leaders on the telephone and he can get into negotiating with them about things that are going to be done. They are calling with some degree of enthusiasm everyone from a holy father to prime ministers across the globe.

“So we are moving along knowing what the outcome will be and but I find this more embarrassing for the country than debilitating for my ability to get started,” Biden said.

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But there are still several steps in the electoral process before President Donald Trump’s presidency ends on January 20 and Biden takes office.

Let’s take a look at the key dates leading up Biden becoming the 46th President of the US.

December 8

News organisations typically project who has won the election shortly after polls right after Election Day.

However, this year, those projections took several days, primarily, due to an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots cast amid the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

At this particular situation, news organisations using a variety of factors, determine that one candidate no longer has a path to victory. Official counting continues for several days, and sometimes weeks, after a winner is projected. These tallies are subject to legal challenges and recounts, the criteria and timeline of which are regulated under individual states’ laws.

Regardless of state’s laws regarding recounts, the state must meet the deadline. December 8 is the deadline- to appoint the electors who will decide the winner based on a certified final count.

It is in this scenario Trump has not conceded and his campaign has vowed to challenge the election results in certain states.

December 14

On December 14, electors across the country cast their votes by paper ballots in their respective states and the District of Columbia, which has three electoral votes. Those results must be delivered to the US capital and other relevant officials by December 23.

There are 538 electoral votes, and the number of votes in each state matches how many senator and representatives that state has in Congress .

Washington, DC also has three electoral votes. In most states, all electoral votes are given to the candidate who wins the most votes in that state, although this is not necessarily required by law.

Two states – Maine and Nebraska – have slightly different systems: Two electors vote for the candidate that wins the state’s overall popular vote, while a third elector votes based on which candidate wins the most Congressional districts in that state.

Currently, 33 states and Washington, DC, have laws that require electors to vote for the candidate that wins the popular vote in their state.

January 6

The House and Senate hold a joint session to count the votes sent by electors across the country . If one ticket has received 270 or more electoral votes, the president of the Senate, currently Vice President Mike Pence, will announce the winner of the election.

If there is any objection to electoral returns from any state, the Memebers of Congress can express their objections by writing by at least one member of the House and one in the Senate.

If neither presidential candidate wins at least 270 electoral votes, the House decides the election, based on the 12th Amendment to the Constitution. If required, the House would elect the president through a majority vote.

January 20
President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn into office at noon on Inauguration Day. Vice- President elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in shortly before that.

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Joe Biden has said Democrats are winning the race to White House and will be winning over 300 electoral votes. The world is waiting for the next US President and counting continues into the fourth day. Biden is on the cusp of securing the presidency after gaining narrow leads over Donald Trump in key battleground states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona with narrow margins and the votes are still being counted.

Joe Biden would need six more electoral votes to secure the win. Securing Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes and Georgia’s six more electoral votes would put Biden over the 270 he needs to win the presidency. Across the US, Biden is leading Trump by 4.1 million votes out of a record 147 million cast in the 2020 US elections.

The prolonged process added to the anxiety of a nation whose racial and cultural divides were inflamed during the heated campaign.

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Now Joe Biden is leading in Nevada by around 7,600 votes . He has 49.3 percent of the voter share and Trump is right behind him with 48.7 percent. This is a close race and a must win for Biden’s to win the presidency.

The tables were turned when Biden has won the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan, which have taken him closer to the winning mark of 270 electoral votes. Donald Trump’s victory in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in 2016 had ensured his entry into the White House.

Joe Biden has won more overall votes than any presidential candidates in US history, overtaking the record set by Barack Obama in 2008.

The Trump campaign, whose path to victory was narrowing dramatically, said that it would seek a recount in Wisconsin and then announced that it had legal action seeking to halt the vote count in Michigan. They are also consider taking legal action in Arizona and Nevada as votes are still being counted.

Presdient Donald Tump declared he would ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the 2020 election. As far as he was concerned, he said, he had already won: “So we’ll be going to the Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop.”

The high stake election was held against the backdrop of a unprecedented pandemic that has killed more than 2,30,000 Americans and wiped away millions of jobs.

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All eyes are on the key battleground states of Arizona, Iowa, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. The results of these states are crucial for both contenders.

Donald Trump prevailed in the hotly contested Rust Belt state of Ohio- one he seized in 2016 and which is key to his efforts to win reelection over Joe Biden. The Republican incumbent won one of the key battlegrounds, Florida while Biden got Arizona.

As of now Biden had 238 electoral votes against Trump’s 213. A candidate needs 270 votes to win the presidency.

Biden, searching desperately for states to recapture from Trump, was eyeing the so-called “blue wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that sent Trump to the White House in 2016.

So far Trump has won Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wyoming, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah.

Biden meanwhile has taken Democratic-leaning states like California, Colorado, Columbia, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

Why Electoral College is crucial in United States election?

The winner of the election is determined through a system called the electoral college. Each of the 50 states, plus Washington DC, is given a number of electoral college votes, adding up to a total of 538 votes.  More populous states get more electoral college votes than smaller ones.

A candidate needs to win 270 electoral college votes to win the election. In every state except two- Maine and Nebraska- the candidate that get the most votes wins all of the state’s electoral college votes.

Due to these rules, a candidate can win the election without getting the most votes at the national level. This happened at the last election, in which Donald Trump won a majority of electoral college votes although more people voted for Hillary Clinton across the US.

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“When @JoeBiden and I are in the White House we’ll listen to scientists, promote masks to save lives, implement nationwide testing and tracing, and ensure vaccines are free to all,” she tweeted.

The bitter and divisive race for White House between Republican incumbent President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden comes in the midst of coronavirus pandemic which has infected over 92 lakh people and claimed the lives of more than 2,30,000 others in the country, making it the worst hit nation from the deadly virus.

While the formal election is today, nearly 93 million people have already cast their ballots in early voting, including 33 million in-person votes and 58 million mail-in ballots. To be elected as president , a candidate should win at least 270 votes in what is called the Electoral College.

The 2020 US Presidential election is much different than previous elections as people cast their ballots amid rising anxiety and worry about the country’s future due to the pandemic and eight percent unemployment.

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Among the top reasons for interest in the US President is a meeting between popular American rapper Lil Wayne and other rappers and Trump after the recent racial attacks in the United States. Racism is one of the hot topics in this election, and rappers supporting US President’s policies has turned the attention of many.

Meanwhile in-person voting has begun in some parts of the United States. Voters were urged to vote early through mail-in ballots, to avoid queues amid the coronavirus pandemic. More than 99.5 million early votes have been cast so far. Additionally, about 28.2 million mail ballots are yet to be returned to polling authorities. As a result, over 100 million votes would have been cast and recorded even before the Election Day.

As the election day kickstarted, the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris urged for in person voting by saying “ mask up and find your polling place”.

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The midnight vote began today with voters choosing their preferred candidates for US President and New Hampshire governor, as well as federal and state legislative seats.

The 2020 US elections and congressional races, came amid a surging COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Americans will decide the fate of incumbent President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden through their votings.

To win the presidency, either Trump or Biden must acquire over 50 per cent of the electoral vote, which is 538 in total. This means each candidate must get a minimum of 270 electoral votes to clinch the presidency.

Joe Biden is currently leading Donald Trump in the national polls. But leading in polls does not guarantee victory. Hillary Clinton also had a clear lead over Trump in the polls for the entire 2016 campaign. She ended up losing the race.

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Biden is set to close his campaign in Pittsburgh where he made his maiden campaign appearance in April 2019.

Held in the middle of pandemic that has claimed many American lives, aside from a series of civil rights protests and fallen economy, the US election this year is deemed to define the future course of America.

Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa are the key states also known as the swing states, where the spotlight are on. A majority of the voters from these states flipped from supporting Obama to Trump in 2016.

As Donald Trump seeks re-election, predictions show a better chance for Joe Biden who holds a clear advantage over the President across four of the swing states.

The polls also indicate that the presidential election is getting tighter even though Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden continues to maintain substantial lead over Republican’s Donald Trump.

In the national polls, Trump continues to trail with a 42% chance as compared to a 51% of Biden, according to the latest Reuters poll. Similarly, a New York Times poll showed Joe Biden holding a clear advantage over 4 important swing states- Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona. Biden’s electoral position appears to put him in a stronger position than any presidential candidate since 2008.

Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has sought a decisive mandate from Americans so that no amount of legal battle can overturn the poll results. Earlier Donald Trump hinted that he is gearing up for a legal battle in the counting of mail and absentee votes post the election

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Christian Association and Alliance for Social, (CASA) , a Kerala-based body, has put up a hoarding in support of Trump at one of the busiest part of Kochi in Ernakulam.

The prominent placing of the hoarding at the heart of the city is piquing curiosity of many along with abuses and threats.

The hoarding titled ‘President Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence staunch supporters of India’, says that “the whole world benefitted by your actions against terrorism. You have made Arabs and Israelis friends. Make America great again. We wish you a thumping victory.

According to CASA, there are several reasons why they support Trump. Some of the reasons are that there was no war during the regime of Trump, took stern actions against terrorism, handling of China and his relationship with North Korea.

The Christian body is appealing to all Malayalis with US citizenship to support Trump in the elections. They are also carrying out campaigns through social media.

CASA, which was formed a couple of years back to fight against social issues.

The United States Presidential election is all set to happen on November 3. Donald Trump was specifically trying to woo Indian Americans voters during the election campaign. While the data show that Indian American mostly vote Democrat, the Republican party is trying to target voters who are likely to switch loyalties based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi- Trump camaradiere.

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As the United States presidential election is just days away, Democrat’s candidate Joe Biden has slammed Donald Trump’s administration and has claimed that Americans are learning to die with coronavirus. On Friday, Biden said that the coronavirus pandemic has dwarfed anything that the country faced in recent history. He also warned the citizens of the United States that the pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down.

Biden claimed that the Donald Trump administration has totally failed to contain the pandemic. He added that the country’s economy is currently facing the devastating impacts of the coronavirus outbreak.

“President Trump said we’re rounding the corner, it’s going away, we’re learning to live with it. They are quotes. But as I told him last night, we’re not learning to live with it. We’re learning to die with it. This is a dark winter ahead. COVID-19 dwarfs anything we’ve faced in recent history and it isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. The virus is surging in almost every state. We passed 4.8 million cases,” said Biden.

Biden also alleged that Donald Trump does not have a proper plan in front of him to contain the spread of the virus.

Biden has also promised to give free vaccines to every American if gets elected as the president of the country. However, Biden’s words have received negative responses from various corners, as there is an ethical concern to use the potential vaccine as bait to grab votes.

The United States is one of the worst affected countries due to the coronavirus outbreak. According to the latest statistics, more than 2,20,000 people have lost their lives, and the total number of positive cases has already crossed 4.8 million.

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“Look at China, how filthy it is. Look at Russia. Look at India. The air is filthy. I walked out of the Paris Accord as we had to take out trillions of dollars and we were treated very unfairly,” said Trump during his final presidential debate in Tennessee.

This is not the first time that Trump has blamed countries like China and India for not doing anything to control the adverse effects of climate change. Earlier, the US president had claimed that India and China are regions in the world where it is impossible to breathe.

““We have the best environmental numbers, ozone numbers, and so many other numbers. In the meantime, China, Russia, India all these countries they’re spewing stuff into the air,” added Trump during the rally.

In the final presidential debate, Trump’s opponent Joe Biden lashed out at the US president for befriending with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un. Biden started attacking Trump when the president claimed that he has avoided war through his summits with Kim Jong-un.

Calling Kim Jong-un a thug, Biden revealed that Trump’s move was very similar to becoming a friend of Adolf Hitler before the second world war.

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Donald Trump, the reigning president of the United States who will face the election on November 3 has assured Americans that the country will be the first in the world to land humans on Mars. The president also added that NASA will land the first women on the moon by 2024.

“America will land the first woman on the Moon and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars, we’re getting very close,” said Trump, at his campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin.

The comments of Donald Trump comes at a time when SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced his plans to take touchdown Mars using the already developed Starship. In an interaction with Space.com, Musk claimed that the first uncrewed mission will be launched within four years, and it will be followed by a manned mission.

Recently, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has said that a human settlement on the moon will be developed by 2028. However, skeptics believe that NASA’s timeline is unrealistic, especially at a time when the space agency is facing a lack of funding.

The dangers posed by space radiation will be one of the major challenges that will bother NASA during their upcoming Mars missions. A few months back, Samantha Rolfe, a renowned astrobiologist had claimed that the Mars missions planned by NASA and SpaceX could be suicidal. According to Rolfe, astronauts who reach the Red Planet will be exposed to deadly space radiation, as the Red Planet does not have its own magnetic field.

Due to the absence of the magnetic field, the atmosphere provides very little shelter to space radiation. The astrobiologist also claimed that it is unethical to expose astronauts to lethal radiation that could cause serious health problems.

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In 2017, the New York Times published an explosive report which stated that the Pentagon has carried out a secret program named AATIP (Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program) to know more about UFO sightings. Soon, To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences released two video clips that showed UFOs screeching across the skies at a breathtaking speed, as they were trailed by US Navy jets.

The videos soon went viral, and soon Pentagon admitted to having carried out AATIP. Later, Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher revealed that these clips are real, and they were not manipulated. However, he made it clear that these footages were not supposed to be released in the first place.

Earlier, this year, Pentagon officially released their videos, and many people still believe that it was the first step towards alien disclosure, which is basically a gradual process.

And now, Donald Trump’s comments on aliens, and his remarks on America’s military might have made many people believe that the President has actually threatened extraterrestrials.

On Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump about his views on UFOs, and asked him why the Department of Defense has set up a UFO task force.

“Well, I’m going to have to check on that. I mean, I’ve heard that. I heard that two days ago. So I’ll check on that. I’ll take a good, strong look at that,” replied Trump.

He soon started talking about the country’s powerful military and weaponry. As the president talked about the military as a reply to a query related to aliens, several social media users have started claiming that the president’s words are an indirect threat to aliens planning to invade the planet.

“I will tell you this, we now have created a military the likes of which we’ve never had before, in terms of equipment. The equipment that we have, the weapons that we have, and hopefully — hope to god we never have to use them. Russia, China, they’re all envious of what we’ve had. All built in the USA, we’ve rebuilt it, $2.5trn. As far as the other question, I’ll have to check on it. I heard about it two days ago actually,” added Trump.

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These conspiracy theorists are known as the QAnon group, and they are known for promoting Donald Trump on social media platforms. According to these conspiracy theorists, several top stars in Hollywood and some top Democratic leaders are Satan worshippers, and they used to drink the blood of small babies and infants, as a part of their ritual.

These conspiracy theorists also claim that Donald Trump is the primary enemy of these satan worshippers, as the reigning president has already waged a war against these people who are involved in child trafficking.

Even though QAnon believers are very less in number, they have now succeeded in garnering mainstream attention, as they are promoting the anti-child trafficking slogan. According to reports, there are more than 1,50,000 QAnon believers in the country, and they mainly operate through social networking sites like Facebook.

Earlier, several reports had suggested that these QAnon believers are gearing up for a civil war if Trump gets defeated by Biden in the upcoming elections. Adding up the heat to these rumors, Donald Trump also once said that QAnon believers are a group of people who love him.

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The move has been seen as the President’s disregard to basic precautions to contain the virus that has killed more than 2,09,000 Americans.

Yet, Trump thought it was okay to step out of the hospital in an enclosed SUV with around two people with him which can put members of the Secret Services at risk unnecessarily.

Hours earlier, Trump’s medical team reported that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the critical patients.
The doctors also said Trump’s health is improving and that he could be discharged as early as Monday. Yet new disclosures about his treatment raise concern that his condition is more serious than what the American public has been told.

In a video released on Twitter around the same time, Trump said he’s “learned a lot” about the coronavirus while undergoing treatment. “This is the real school,” he said. “And I get it. And I understand it.” His outing, he said, was meant to “pay a little surprise” to his supporters.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Trump has downplayed the risks of the virus. Despite World Health Organisation and Center of Diseases Control repeatedly issues warnings on the prevention, Trump ignored it all and even mocked the use of mask. The first time Trump was spotted wearing a mask in public was in July when the pandemic had already affected 3.2 million Americans.

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Trump confirmed in an interview with Fox News that Hope Hicks, one of his closest confidantes, had tested positive and added later on Twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump had got tested too.

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

Mr Hicks was traveling with Trump on Air Force One on September 29 to fly to Cleveland for the first Presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden.

With only 32 days left for the US Presidential elections to kick off, two more presidential debates with Joe Biden are scheduled in the coming weeks apart from the campaigns.

Trump had consistently played down concerns about being personally vulnerable to contracting COVID-19. “I felt no vulnerablity whatsoever,” he told reporters back in May. The virus has killed more than 2,00,000 Americans and infected more than seven million worldwide.

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“I think it’s really important for everybody to vote. If we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground, too. It’s critical to participate in our democracy. It’s critical to participate in our democracy. We consider it an honor to be able to vote from space,” Rubins told AFP.

It should be noted that most of the NASA astronauts hail from Houston and Texas is offering a secured electronic ballet system to cast their votes.

Rubins is not the first astronaut to cast votes from space. Earlier, another astronaut named Shane Kimbrough had cast votes from the International Space Station.

Rubins is one of the key members of NASA in the International Space Station, as she is the first person to do DNA sequencing on space. In her upcoming trip, she is expected to work on a cardiovascular experiment and will conduct research using the ISS’s Cold Atom Lab.

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U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols on September 27 granted a preliminary injunction against the ban on new downloads of the video-sharing network, which would have gone into effect at 11:59 p.m. in Washington. The judge declined to grant an injunction on a separate set of prohibitions scheduled for Nov. 12 that are designed to further curb the app’s use in the U.S.

Tik Tok’s owner ByteDance Ltd. requested the hold after the president ordered the app out of American stores unless the company sold a stake in its US operations to a domestic buyer. Tik Tok has been downloaded by more than 100 million Americans.

It’s the second legal ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on popular apps with Chinese owners. Trump has called for bans on both TikTok and WeChat, owned by China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd., arguing that the apps could give China’s government access to millions of Americans’ personal data.

WeChat users won a court injunction against a ban last week. The bans are part of Trump’s stringent approach on Beijing as the presidential election approaches.

Meanwhile China is planning to take actions to prevent Tik Tok and its technologies from falling into the US’ hands.

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