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Ted Cruz: “Antitrust law is not designed to protect market participants…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Number one, what the court said, which was repeating what the Biden DOJ had said to it is flat out wrong as to the purpose of antitrust law. Antitrust law is not designed to protect market participants from anti-competitive harm. It is designed to protect consumers. That is a very different concept. So when, when Democrats are in charge, they want to use government to protect one competitor from another. The purpose of the antitrust laws is to protect consumers. (17:53–18:04)

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Asserts the purpose of antitrust law is to protect consumers, not market participants.

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