Trump threatens the trade investigation of the European Union after Google, Apple fines

president Donald Trump On Friday, he threatened to launch a “trade investigation” to “cancel” what he said was imposed discriminatory fines by Europe against American technology companies such as Google and apple.

“We cannot let this happen to a wonderful and unprecedented American ingenuity, and if that happens, this happens. Social truth.

He released the threat hours after Google caught almost almost 3.5 billion dollars is a penalty From the European Union in the major monopoly issue that focused on giant advertising technology.

This post also came the day after Trump hosting a White House dinner with a group of executives of the best technology, who praised the president.

Google Sundar Pichai CEO thanked Trump after an American judge issued a positive judgment in the teacher’s Languel case against the alphabet. Beshai said he appreciated the “Construction Dialogue” of the administration.

The president complained about social media that Europe was “taking actual money that would go to American investments and jobs.”

“This is in addition to many fines and other taxes that were issued against Google and other American technology companies, in particular,” Trump wrote. “It is very unfair, and the American taxpayer will not defend!”

in Follow -up Post On Friday afternoon, Trump claimed that Google had previously paid $ 13 billion in “demands and wrong charges”.

It was not clear where this number came from, although the company recently faced a series of huge regulatory fines.

The European Union also called for the pressure of billions of dollars from Apple in rear taxes and fines for anti -competitive practices.

The publication claimed that the Apple has been fined 17 billion dollars, but it seems that this number includes the ruling of the 2024 court in Ireland by order the company to pay 14 billion dollars In rear taxes.

Apple “You must restore their money!” Trump wrote.