Donald Trump will inherit a Biden administration legacy of aggressive antitrust enforcement through the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission — an approach that legal experts said Trump himself sowed in his first term and has split his party over the last four years.
The Biden administration has major antitrust litigation against tech giants like Google and Apple, credit card company Visa, as well as concert venue company LiveNation and real estate company Realpage. At the same time, the Biden administration’s approach has repeatedly riled some in Trump’s camp, particularly FTC Chair Lina Khan.
Rebecca Allensworth, an antitrust law professor at Vanderbilt University, said that Trump has not been a “traditional” Republican around antitrust and competition issues, particularly in his criticism of large tech companies.
