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Mike Lee: “During President Trump's first term in office, the…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Lee Questions DOJ Nominees On Stopping Crime and Antitrust Issues

Published | Video Starts at 05:11

But that's what I've learned over the past 10 years as a defense attorney and certainly that will help me if I'm confirmed as Deputy Attorney General. Now that makes sense. Those same principles do apply in very meaningful ways. Mrs. Slater, During President Trump's first term in office, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission launched investigations into a number of big tech companies, including Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon for anti competitive conduct. The Biden administration continued those cases which had bipartisan support for them, certainly within the Senate and with the within the House. And those cases are still ongoing today. (05:11–05:26)

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Asserts that the DOJ and FTC launched antitrust investigations into Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon during Trump's first term.

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