Trump Admin TURNS on THEIR OWN DOJ in STUNNING MOVE

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down how the Trump administration is gutting antitrust enforcement and what it means for American consumers. The centerpiece is the $14 billion HP Enterprise/Juniper Networks merger, which the DOJ's own antitrust division sued to block — until HPE's lobbyists went over the heads of career lawyers straight to the White House and cut a sweetheart deal so weak that the head of the antitrust division and her top deputies were sidelined and eventually pushed out. A coalition of 13 state attorneys general is now asking a federal judge to reject the settlement under the Tunney Act, the post-Watergate law designed to prevent exactly this kind of corporate influence peddling. And it's not just HP — the administration walked away from the Live Nation/Ticketmaster breakup lawsuit and killed the Biden-era case against Adobe over deceptive subscription cancellation practices. Brian and Shant walk through the history of antitrust law, why competition enforcement should be bipartisan, and how a president who campaigned as a populist keeps making everything more expensive for the people who voted for him.

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