Democrats are poking at MAGA’s antitrust soft spot

Four Democratic senators accused President Donald Trump’s nominee for a top Justice Department post of allowing “outside corporate influence to corrupt” merger reviews and are seeking records of his dealings with HPE, American Express, and other companies that received DOJ takeover approvals.

The lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., can’t prevent the confirmation of Stanley Woodward to be the third-ranking official at DOJ. But with their new letter, which was shared first with Semafor, they are poking at a rare area of disagreement among conservatives, who are torn between a populist dislike of corporate power and the traditional Republican impulse to simply back big business.

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