Bipartisan critics of keeping TikTok operating in the US simply have too much other stuff on their plate to muster a fight should President Trump once again extend the deadline for the Chinese-owned app to divest in the US, On The Money has learned.

That’s the word from sources close to the White House and key figures in Congress who have debated whether TikTok should go dark in a couple weeks over concerns it’s essentially spyware for the Chinese Communist Party in its quest for global domination.

As On The Money reported on Tuesday, here are the scenarios of TikTok’s short-term fate : A Wall Street banker involved in the deal to sell the app to US investors said Trump could be persuaded to let TikTok “go dark” and disappear from app stores on June 19 if he believes it will give him a

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