Trump Taps Slater as DOJ's Antitrust Lead
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s nominating Gail Slater, an economic adviser to Vice President-elect JD Vance, to lead the DOJ Antitrust Division. Slater, who was Trump’s special assistant to the president for technology, telecommunications and cybersecurity policy at the…
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National Economic Council during his first administration, “will help ensure that our competition laws are enforced, both vigorously and FAIRLY, with clear rules that facilitate, rather than stifle, the ingenuity of our greatest companies,” the president-elect said on Truth Social. Slater was previously Internet Association general counsel and worked at Fox and Roku. Trump took a swipe at major tech companies in announcing the Slater nomination. “Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector and, as we all know, using its market power to crack down on the rights of so many Americans, as well as those of Little Tech,” Trump said: “I was proud to fight these abuses in my First Term," and DOJ Antitrust “will continue that work under Gail’s leadership.”