Trump Admin TURNS on THEIR OWN DOJ in STUNNING MOVE
April 1, 2026
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as posted by the channelAttorneys 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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