Vance continues to exert influence on incoming Trump admin: Vance antitrust adviser to head DOJ antitrust division

Vice President-elect JD Vance continues to exert his influence over the incoming Trump administration. This week, it was announced that Vance’s antitrust adviser, Gail Slater, will become the head of antitrust at the Department of Justice in the second Trump administration.

Slater is broadly recognized as an antagonist of Big Tech. Per the Daily Caller:

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will tap economic policy adviser to Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Gail Slater, as assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Before his second victory, Trump repeatedly called out Big Tech’s involvement in manipulating information behind the scenes, alleging that the companies have “systematically” colluded to advance a “censorship regime.” In an announcement on Truth Social, Trump stated the corporations have used their “market power to crack down on the rights of so many Americans” and “those of Little Tech.”

 “I was proud to fight these abuses in my First Term, and our Department of Justice’s antitrust team will continue that work under Gail’s leadership,” Trump wrote.

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Slater is expected to take over a number of high-profile cases involving massive companies accused of illegally building and protecting monopolies. In August, Google took a large hit after a federal judge ruled the company violated U.S. antitrust law through its search business. U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta wrote in his filing that the tech company abused a “monopoly” through its search business to be the automatic search engine for browsers such as Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox.

However, one well-connected Ohio Republican political consultant also points out to us that Slater did previously work at the now-defunct Internet Association. How anti-Big Tech is she really, given that?

Time will tell, but for now, Vance’s imprint on the incoming administration seems clearer and clearer.