Trump Ally Sees Google Backsliding on Vow to Cooperate in Probe
- GOP Senator Josh Hawley reflects on his own wars with Google
- Exposure has helped freshman lawmaker gain favor with Trump
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Republican Senator Josh Hawley warned state attorneys general expected to announce an antitrust probe of Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Monday that they should expect formidable defensive tactics, no matter how cooperative the company has promised to be.
“They will probably stall, stonewall, deflect, deny, threaten,” Hawley, a Missouri freshman who investigated the company when serving as his state’s attorney general, told Bloomberg in an interview on Sunday.