Donald Trump broadened his economic assault on Washington’s allies on Wednesday, lashing out at Brussels for its aggressive pursuit of antitrust cases against US technology groups as actions by a EU regulator who “hates” America.
The US president added that any lawsuits against the likes of Google and Facebook should be brought by American authorities instead of those in Europe, and suggested federal prosecutors could go after Twitter for bias against his political allies.
In an interview with Fox Business, Mr Trump saved his strongest criticism for Margarethe Vestager, the EU antitrust commissioner who has won praise in Europe for attempting to rein in Amazon, Apple and Google for alleged abuse of their dominant market positions or corporate tax avoidance.