Over the course of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the now presumptive Republican presidential nominee has carved out his political identity by being outspoken on a variety of issues, including border enforcement, foreign policy, trade, and the Second Amendment, but has largely remained silent on the issue of antitrust enforcement.
During his 2008 campaign for president, then Senator Barack Obama made clear that an Obama administration would seek to “reinvigorate antitrust enforcement” by reversing the policies of the Bush administration, and criticized the Bush administration for having the “weakest record of antitrust enforcement of any administration in the last half century.”1 Unfortunately, Trump has not directly spelled out his antitrust agenda, which makes predicting how a Trump administration might influence antitrust enforcement a difficult task.
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