Donald Trump has enjoyed a strong hold over the Republican party, but his latest move has led multiple GOP senators to "break with Trump," according to a report.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor and Fox News contributor who regularly champions all things Trump, Sunday wasn't so sure about the president-elect's call for businesses to trust "that there will be no liability" if they thwart the TikTok ban.
Trump ally House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on NBC's Meet The Press Sunday where he declared, "We will enforce the law" on the ban passed by Congress in the interest of national security.
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But that's not all, according to a report from NBC.
"Shortly before Johnson's comments, Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., broke with Trump, too, celebrating the app’s ban that went into effect Sunday," the report states.
“We commend Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft for following the law and halting operations with ByteDance and TikTok, and we encourage other companies to do the same. The law, after all, risks ruinous bankruptcy for any company who violates it,” Cotton and Ricketts wrote in a statement.
They added, "Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date. For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China."
Cotton would later threaten "ruinous liability" for any company that followed President-elect Donald Trump's instructions by restoring access to the TikTok app after legislation banned it.
"Any company that hosts, distributes, services, or otherwise facilitates communist-controlled TikTok could face hundreds of billions of dollars of ruinous liability under the law, not just from DOJ, but also under securities law, shareholder lawsuits, and state AGs. Think about it," the lawmaker said at the time.
NBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard characterized it as Cotton "pushing back" on the President-elect.
