Updated On: 17 October, 2024 09:20 AM IST | New York City | Agencies
In the interview, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait mentioned the US Justice Department’s proposal to possibly break up Google and asked Trump if Google should be broken up

Trump at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia. Pic/AFP
Former president Donald Trump threatened in an interview that, if elected president, he would “do something” about Google but stopped short of specifically saying he would break up the company.
In the interview, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait mentioned the US Justice Department’s proposal to possibly break up Google and asked Trump if Google should be broken up. Trump initially didn’t address Google at all, instead seemingly zeroing in on the Justice Department part of that question to rant about a recent DOJ lawsuit against Virginia election officials.