Trump warns he is 'watching Google very closely!'

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned his administration is “watching Google very closely” after Fox News and the Fox Business Network aired segments suggesting the technology giant harbored bias against him and was working to thwart his re-election prospects.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai “was in the Oval Office working very hard to explain how much he liked me, what a great job the Administration is doing, that Google was not involved with China’s military, that they didn’t help Crooked Hillary over me in the 2016 Election, and that they are NOT planning to illegally subvert the 2020 Election despite all that has been said to the contrary,” Trump

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“It all sounded good until I watched Kevin Cernekee, a Google engineer, say terrible things about what they did in 2016 and that they want to ‘Make sure that Trump losses in 2020,’” he

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Cernekee, who was fired from Google in June 2018, appeared Monday on “Fox & Friends” and alleged executives at the company “went up on stage right away and cried — literal tears streaming down their faces” following Trump’s victory in the 2016 White House race.

“They vowed that it would never happen again and they want to use all the power and all the resources that they have to control the flow of information to the public and make sure that Trump loses in 2020,” Cernekee said.

Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs later Monday interviewed Peter Schweizer, president of the conservative Government Accountability Institute think tank and a senior editor-at-large at the right-wing Breitbart News, who claimed Google is “going to go all in” on efforts to deny Trump a second term.

Trump on Monday evening promoted both

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appearances via Twitter, and referenced them online again Tuesday morning.

“Lou Dobbs stated that this is a fraud on the American public. @peterschweizer stated with certainty that they suppressed negative stories on Hillary Clinton, and boosted negative stories on Donald Ttump,” the president

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, misspelling his own name. “All very illegal. We are watching Google very closely!”

It is unclear when the Oval Office meeting between Trump and Pichai occurred, although the Google chief was among a group of executives from seven technology companies that spoke with the president at the White House last month.

Article originally published on POLITICO Magazine