DOJ Approves T-Mobile’s Latest Merger Despite Admitting It’s Terrible For Consumers And Competition

DOJ Approves T-Mobile’s Latest Merger Despite Admitting It’s Terrible For Consumers And Competition

One of the bigger Trump election season lies was that Trump 2.0 would be "serious about antitrust," and protect blue collar Americans from corporate predation. You'd have to be a turnip to not see that was an aggressive lie, pushed by a lot of folks (even supposed antitrust buster Matt Stoller), who seemed hellbent on…

Trump Admin Halts a String of Antitrust Cases, Approving Corporate Mergers

👀Share this on Bluesky and XThe Trump administration has dropped federal scrutiny of several corporate mergers in recent months, according to an analysis by Public Citizen—waving through multibillion-dollar deals for companies, including many that made large donations to the Trump-Vance inauguration.The watchdog Public Citizen examines the Trump administration’s blessing of the mergers in its updated tracker of 165 corporate enforcement actions…

Clients eye White House nod for antitrust deals, practitioners say

The reported success of Trump-aligned lobbyists in convincing the Department of Justice to drop a merger challenge will inevitably fuel greater demand for their services, members of the antitrust bar have warned.