Trump-nominated antitrust chief exits after attempting to enforce antitrust laws

Trump supporters waved “good riddance” to the Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General, Gail Slater, in charge of the DOJ’s antitrust division, who announced her departure earlier today. Slater, who was nominated by Trump for the role in his second term and won support from Republican lawmakers, who, with the help of Democrats, confirmed her in the Senate last year, wrote on X, the CSAM-laden Everything App, that it was “with great sadness and abiding hope that I leave my role as AAG for Antitrust today.” The announcement comes after months of clashes with Trump administration officials, including Pam Bondi, who, in addition to avoiding eye contact with Epstein victims, lost faith in Slater after the AAG attempted to block a $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks last summer, per The Guardian. Once an ally of Vice President JD Vance, who reportedly grew sick of her dropping his name whenever backed into a corner, Slater opposed the deal because she thought HP’s acquisition of Juniper Networks would create a duopoly. The deal went through, in the end, by going around the AAG. CBS News reports that Trump officials also grew frustrated when she “disobeyed orders” and took an expensive trip to Paris for a conference without Bondi’s permission, which is very different from FBI Director Kash Patel taking the P.J. to watch his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match.