Trump’s “Truth” continued. “This is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, and hopefully the Justice Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant Interference of Elections. If not, and subject to the Laws of our Country, I will request their prosecution, at the maximum levels, when I win the Election, and become President of the United States!”
Right now the DOJ and Google are facing off in court over a completely different matter. The Justice Department accuses Google of violating antitrust laws with its advertising business and an adverse decision by the judge could lead the DOJ to demand that Google parent Alphabet break up Google into smaller independent companies.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump threatens Google is he should win back the presidency. | Image credit-TruthSocial
The Trump administration did take the president’s claims very seriously at the time; after Trump’s tirade back in 2018, White House economic advisor Lawrence Kudlow said that the administration would look into regulating Google Search. Despite the comment from Kudlow, nothing of the sort was ever discussed any further by the administration. Google also responded to Trump’s claims by explaining that Google Search does not set a political agenda.
Considering that the former president seems focused on retribution, should he win back the presidency, we would not be surprised if he decides to use the DOJ to seek revenge on the Alphabet unit.