That was some antitrust case the federal government’s lawyers brought against Google in court last week.

The allegation is that Google’s “monopolistic” policies are hurting American consumers. Yet after 17 witnesses and seven days of hearings, the government failed to call ONE consumer to the witness table.

Surely, out of the more than one billion people across the globe who actually use Google, they could find someone, anyone, who was harmed by this sinister search engine?

Their failure to do so should be prima facie evidence that any supposed offense committed by Google is by definition a victimless crime.

So then who did testify against Google? Let’s see…

OpenAI, Perplexity, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo – i.e., Google’s competitors. And they are all in favor of the Justice Department carving up Google into little pieces. Who will get dibs on the Chrome browser?

This trial has turned into a farce. It isn’t about upholding the rule of law. It’s an old-fashioned shakedown perpetrated by our own government against one of our own iconic businesses.

Scary!