Trump Says Google, Facebook, Amazon May Be ‘Antitrust Situation’

Aug. 30, 2018, 9:42 PM UTC

President Donald Trump, stepping up his criticism of technology firms he says are favoring liberal points of view, said they may be in a “very antitrust situation” but repeatedly said he can’t comment publicly on whether they should be broken up.

“I won’t comment on the breaking up, of whether it’s that or Amazon or Facebook,” Trump said in an Oval Office interview Aug. 30 with Bloomberg News. He said there are people who believe there is “a very antitrust situation, the three of them. But I just, I won’t comment on that.”

Trump reiterated for the third day his ...

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