Comment by llm_nerd

"It was launched by the first Trump admin"

The first Trump admin was positively benign and adult compared to the current one. The first Trump admin had significant checks and balances on its behaviours.

And of course almost everyone who served in that first Trump admin campaigned against/warned about Trump this time, which should be telling. Or maybe they're just "RINOs" or something.

"As much as it's trendy in 2025 to talk about this admin as though it's entirely unprincipled"

This administration is extraordinarily unprincipled and self-serving. The DOJ as a tool for use at the leisure and to the benefit of the president/king is blatantly in the open[1].

"Google's not getting out of this from just a small amount of kowtowing now"

I would bet real money they absolutely will get out from this. Not only that they will get out from it, they'll get the public "treated unfairly" speech as well.

[1] - There is a major plot point in the 1993 movie The Pelican Brief where the simple insinuation that the president influenced the DOJ in any way would be so politically devastating that it would destroy his administration. This is so quaint now. How far the country has fallen.