Former President Donald Trump rebuked Google for promoting negative stories about him two weeks before the 2024 election.
Trump sat down for a live Oct. 15 interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at an event hosted by the Economic Club of Chicago, where the pair discussed the recent federal cases brought against Google. The Department of Justice specifically accused Google of using monopolistic practices to secure its position as America’s top search engine.
“Google’s got a lot of power. They’re very bad to me, very very bad to me, I can speak from that standpoint,” Trump said in response to Micklethwait’s question about the ongoing lawsuit. Trump seemingly referred to an MRC study (published Oct. 15) that exposed Google’s bias when users searched for the Trump campaign. He added, “If I have 20 good stories and 20 bad…
