Donald Trump on Friday claimed that Google is misrepresenting negative news stories about him rather than his 2024 opponent, Kamala Harris, and if he is elected president, he will He threatened to instruct the ministry to file criminal charges.
The accusation, the latest threat in President Trump's campaign to use presidential power against real or perceived enemies, came as an out-of-the-blue post on Truth Social.
“Google is illegally using a system that only publishes and displays bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some of which are fabricated for this purpose, while at the same time only good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris. It turned out that he had made public the said in the post.
“This is an illegal act and I hope the Department of Justice criminally prosecutes them for this blatant election interference. If not, in accordance with the laws of our country, when I win the election and become President of the United States. We will call for their prosecution.”
Trump did not mention the possibility that there has been more negative talk about his campaign than about Harris' campaign in recent weeks, and what prompted him to lash out against Google. It was not immediately clear what happened.
Google said it does not manipulate search results to benefit any particular party. “Both campaign websites consistently rank high in searches for common, relevant search queries,” the company said in a statement.
Still, conservatives have long complained that Google's search results unfairly favor Democrats. The right-wing Media Research Center, which describes itself as a conservative media watchdog, has previously published reports alleging that Google has helped Democrats.
The Trump campaign also announced that the Harris campaign “Sponsored” feature It appeared in Google search results to promote positive news coverage by news outlets such as the Guardian, but the headline was rewritten by the campaign to favor Harris.
Trump's post about Google search results was the latest example of him vowing to prosecute his alleged opponents.
In another Truth Social post this month, Trump threatened to bring criminal charges against his lawyers, donors, political operatives and others he believed were involved in election fraud if he won the November presidential election.
During a press conference on Thursday, President Trump spoke about former House Nancy Pelosi's failure to stop the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, when his supporters rioted in an attempt to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election. The chairman said criminal charges should be brought.
And on Friday, at a campaign rally in Michigan, President Trump spoke out against Pelosi and her husband over reports that the Justice Department had sold Visa stock before filing an antitrust lawsuit against the credit card company. He called on attorneys general in “Republican territory” to investigate. .
