Ellison Scalp? DOJ Antitrust Head Departs, Possibly Fired
February 12, 2026 | Sundance |
Asst Attorney General Gail Slater was the head of the Antitrust Division of the Dept of Justice. Today she announces she has “left her role.” CNN is reporting that AAG Slater was fired.
Gail Slater was in charge of the antitrust divisionand a hawk on the mergers and acquisitions of Big Techand Big Corporate media. As head of the DOJ Antitrust Division,Slater’s view on competitionwas against the interests of the major Big Tech billionaires and corporate media conglomerates who intersect with them.
Slater was in a positionto influence the Warner Brothers-Discovery’s deal to sell the Warner Bros. studio and HBO to Netflix, which Paramount (David Ellison) is trying to stop.
If you havefollowed the influence of Larry Ellison(Oracle, TikTok) and his son David Ellison (Paramount, CBS)in/around the Trump administrationas it relates to Elon Musk (a beneficiary of Ellison), then the timing of Gail
Slater’s removal doesn’t look good at all.
Gail Slatercame into the administration as a part of the JD Vance network(Peter Thiel, Palantir, etc.), and it looks likethat same Vance network stood asideand watched Larry Ellison leverage his position to see her removed.
Slater was a solid MAGA voice in a critical Antitrust positionagainst the interests of Big Tech and Big Corp. However, I said on Christmas Day 2024 –we were likely to be very disappointed by the influence of Big Tech/Big Corp in the White House{SEE HERE}.
Via CNN[…] Slater said in her Thursday post on X: “It is with great sadness and abiding hopethat I leave my role as AAG for Antitrust today. It was indeed the honor of a lifetime to serve in this role.”
The anti-trust division is expected to play a critical role in assessingNetflix’s Warner Brothers Discovery’s deal to sell the Warner Bros. studio and HBO to Netflix, which Paramount is trying to stop by appealing straight to shareholders with its own bid. (CNN is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery.)
In an NBC interview last week,Trump said, “I’ve decided I shouldn’t be involved. The Justice Department will handle it.”But Paramount CEO David Ellison returned to the White House last week to meetprivately with Trump, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. (read more)
There may be something else in the background that we do not understand. However,when former lobbyists and political consultants become key administration officials (Wiles, Bondi) these types of outcomes are possible.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/12/ellison-scalp-doj-antitrust-head-departs-possibly-fired/
(Sundance is not wrong, Trump needs info on what’s happening, to turn this around. Too many billionaires around. The worst part is most of those billionaires really hate Trump and MAGA)