Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal
Wall Street Journal
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@leehepner
Lee Hepner
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This should deeply disturb everyone in the antitrust community. Everyone who claimed the Kanter-Khan era was politicizing antitrust has an obligation to speak out. This is dangerous stuff. White collar gangster antitrust. [image]
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@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
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Trump personally intervened to pardon Ticketmaster over its monopoly. [image]
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@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
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It's a very good piece by the Wall Street Journal on Trump's corrupt use of antirust. https://www.wsj.com/...
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@kenvogel
Kenneth P. Vogel
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Trump-allied @HPE lawyer Mike Davis threatened to “destroy” DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater if she didn't approve HPE's $14B bid to acquire a rival, per a sworn deposition. Davis denies the threat. But DOJ allowed the acquisition & Slater is out of DOJ. https://www.wsj.com/...
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@brianstelter
Brian Stelter
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“After the trial began in March, Trump began calling around to ask why it hadn't been settled. What's the holdup? he wanted to know, according to people familiar with the matter. It was an extraordinary role for a president to play in a routine antitrust investigation.”
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@karlbode.com
Karl Bode
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love this WSJ story about how a revolving door corporate lobbyist easily destroyed the handful of almost semi-useful antitrust enforcers at Trump's DOJ — the exact opposite of what MAGA, much of the press, and Matt stoller claimed would happen under Trump 2.0 [embedded post]
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@joshgerstein
Josh Gerstein
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I thought the previous DOJ was corrupt? So, now we're back to the presumption of regularity?
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@dojrr47
@dojrr47
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This DOJ - like every DOJ - decided these antitrust cases on the facts. WSJ is falsely basing its reporting on disgruntled, fired employees who failed and consistently leaked confidential information to the media to further their own agenda against the Administration, including
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@wsj
@wsj
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Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals—and went over their heads if they pushed back.. https://www.wsj.com/...