Trump Says He's Watching Google Closely Ahead of Election

U.S. President Donald Trump once again accused Google of amplifying negative news stories about him, according to Bloomberg. This time, he cited an ex-employee who claims he was fired for conservative bias.

“All very illegal. We are watching Google very closely!“ Trump said in a series of tweets, adding he’d met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, though didn’t say when. Trump tweeted a pair of clips from the segments late Monday, and continued to tweet about the subject Tuesday morning.

Trump said he’d watched comments by Kevin Cernekee in a Fox News interview, where the former Google employee alleged that conservatives were harassed at the company. Cernekee said Google wants Trump to lose the 2020 election, and that the company executives wept after Trump’s victory and "vowed that it would never happen again.

Cernekee told Fox he’s in a legal fight with the search engine giant after he was fired. Google spokeswoman, Jennifer Kaiser, said Cernekee’s comments are false. “We go to great lengths to build our products and enforce our policies in ways that don’t take political leanings into account,“ Kaiser said.

Trump also cited comments to Fox Business by author Peter Schweizer, who alleged Google suppressed negative stories about Hillary Clinton. Pichai “was in the Oval Office working very hard to explain how much he liked me, what a great job the Administration is doing, that Google was not involved with China’s military, that they didn’t help Crooked Hillary over me in the 2016 Election and that they are NOT planning to illegally subvert the 2020 Election despite all that has been said to the contrary,“ Trump said in a pair of tweets.