The US president threatened to hit the European Union with tariffs and a formal trade investigation over Brussels’ latest antitrust penalty against Google.

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    7 hours ago

    If you choose to get bribed and not to apply your own antitrust laws, that’s on you. Don’t expect us to follow suit.

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    It’s not like we’re fining Google for fun or because we hate America. We have rules and Google broke them.

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      He doesn’t seem to understand this concept. It appears that he thinks everyone is as evil as he is, committing crime after crime, that’s why he thinks just investigating people is enough to throw them in jail. The idea that some people aren’t like him is foreign to him.

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      You’re trying to tell an 80 year old narcissistic life long serial criminal he should follow the law?

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    Easiest way to tell that you are on the right path is to have Trump threaten you over it

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      Yes, but only if you hold firm.

      VDL et al have a history of doing the exact opposite, no matter how many times this has proven a failed strategy. Somehow they even seem surprised he responds this way, again and again.

      Let’s hope they’ve learned but so far there’s been little reason to think they have (frankly the fine was already reduced by billions under what the DMA allows, most likely out of fear).

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      He can’t. He pooped his diaper again, and Rubio and Miller got carried away with the game of “rock paper scissors” they initially started to figure out who’s going to change Donnie…

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    The tangerine’tard is calling us out, we’re still better than america

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    I’m not sure how much sense this makes for European citizens. What the commission wants is that Google should direct more users to European competitors rather than its own services. For example regarding price comparison sites. The major German competitor is Idealo, owned by right-wing media empire Axel Springer. Some of this seems to be only about serving the interests of our European oligarchs.