FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Andrea Beaty, [email protected]
In response to President Trump’s decision to attempt to fire the Federal Trade Commission’s Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Revolving Door Project Founder and Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement:
“On the surface, this constitutional crime is about law and process and other abstract topics people often tune out – but underneath, it is motivated by good old-fashioned greed that will hurt every one of us who isn’t a corrupt financier.”
“Americans are rapidly losing their defenders against corporate fraud and malfeasance. First, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was gutted illegally by billionaire Elon Musk and his lackeys. Now, Trump is attempting, without a legal basis, to fire the FTC’s two Democratic commissioners. Slaughter and Bedoya sought to follow the agency’s mandate of protecting consumers and competition by fighting ‘fraudsters and monopolists’ like the ‘Martin Shkrelis and Jeff Bezos of the world.’”
“As antitrust enforcement dies out and a handful of corporations accumulate even more economic power, Americans will only have one person to blame for the new fraud economy: Donald Trump.”
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