Trump Taps Vance Aide Gail Slater as Top DOJ Antitrust Cop (2)

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Gail Slater, an Oxford-educated economic policy adviser to Vice President-elect JD Vance, to head up antitrust enforcement at the Justice Department.

Slater was a tech policy adviser on the National Economic Council during Trump’s first term, and has been advising his transition team on antitrust and tech policy. Earlier she spent 10 years at the US Federal Trade Commission, including as an adviser to former Democratic FTC Commissioner Julie Brill in Barack Obama’s administration.

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform.

“Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling ...