Donald Trump has nominated Gail Slater to become the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice, according to a tweet Wednesday from the president-elect on Truth Social.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice's antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies including Google,

If confirmed as assistant attorney general for the antitrust division, she would inherit lawsuits to break up Google’s search monopoly and ad tech dominance, as well as a case accusing Apple of making it hard for consumers to switch software and hardware.

The crypto and tech communities finally have some clarity on who they’ll potentially answer to over the next four years.

Trump nominates Gail Slater to lead antitrust at DOJ and crypto backer Paul Atkins for head of SEC - SiliconANGLE

Gail Slater, an aide to JD Vance, former staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission and former Fox Corp. executive, has been nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in his upcoming term.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Gail Slater, an Oxford-educated economic policy adviser to Vice President-elect JD Vance, to head up antitrust enforcement at the Justice Department.

President-elect Donald Trump picked Gail Slater, a policy adviser to Vice President-elect JD Vance, to be in charge of the Dept. of Justice's antitrust department. "Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector and,