TikTok goes dark 90 minutes before deadline but posts message suggesting Trump could save it

There needs to be a sale of full divestiture from the Chinese Communist Party and I think President Trump is the one that can make that deal happen,

said Johnson

The law's very precise, and the only way to extend that is if there is an actual deal in the works,

said Johnson, noting multimillionaire businessman Kevin O’Leary of “Shark Tank” has said

It's the Chinese Communist Party and their manipulation of the algorithms,

Johnson said

They have been flooding the minds of American children with terrible messages, glorifying violence and antisemitism and even suicide and eating disorders and they're mining the data of American citizens,

he added