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A truly scary new revelation about Trump’s effort to circumvent the TikTok ban

Just before the July Fourth holiday, we learned that President Donald Trump secretly claimed a power so dangerous that even King George was prohibited from using it. The claim came in a series of identical letters that Attorney General Pam Bondi sent to 10 leading tech companies on April 5—each instructing the company to ignore Congress’s law effectively banning TikTok in the United States.