WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is the Republican presidential candidate, said on Friday he will seek the prosecution of Google if he wins the Nov. 5 election, claiming that the company only displays “bad stories” about him.

Trump, in his post on Truth Social, gave no evidence for his assertion about Google.

“It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about” Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Trump said.

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    Trump using blatant mafia scare tactics to get his way. And about half the American voting population is like. Hey that’s cool, I’m absolutely fine with that, as long as he also makes the poor, the colored, the immigrants and LGBT people suffer, and he lowers taxes for the ultra rich.

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    If I was google I would estimate the cost of said prosecution an start funding things to prevent Trump.

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      If I was google I’d simply sue for defamation. Seems pretty open shut, considering Trump is claiming a law to have been broken and that is blatantly and easily verifiably untrue.

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        Probably don’t even wanna get into it. Streisand effect, and probably just want to avoid all the discovery that would entail.

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        If I were google, I’d just remove any positive mention of him from people’s search results.

        let him scream into a void. it’s not like they’re not legally allowed to fuck over a person.

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      So that the cronies he packed the court with can take his side anyway?

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    “It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about” Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Trump said.

    Don’t worry, I speak Trump.

    Translation: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I don’t wike what thewer saying about meeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I want Google FIRED nnnnnooooooooowwwwwwww!

    *other wet fart noises*

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    Is this why I got a Google news hit criticizing Harris for “repetitive speeches?” Lol, what a joke. “We don’t like how she stays on message, waaahhh,” lol.

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    only displaying bad stories ? have you tried not doing bad and illegal shit perhaps ? or is he as imbecile that thinks that a group of minions are organizing the results of a search and it’s not an algorithm

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    I’d rather see them broken up for monopolism (a possible outcome thanks to the current FTC chairwoman appointed during the current administration) than sued about hurting the president’s feelings