{"id":370165,"date":"2018-07-20T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-they-truly-have-taken-advantage-of-us-trump-slams-eu\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:17:12","slug":"presstv-they-truly-have-taken-advantage-of-us-trump-slams-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-they-truly-have-taken-advantage-of-us-trump-slams-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018They truly have taken advantage of US,\u2019 Trump slams EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has lambasted the European Union (UN) for slapping a record 5.1-billion-dollar (4.34-billion-euro) fine on US tech giant Google over antitrust violations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Commission\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 the executive arm of the EU \u2014 announced the fine on Google on Wednesday after an investigation found \u201cserious illegal behavior\u201d on the part of the US tech firm with regards to Android applications.<\/p>\n<p>Trump hit back shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google. They truly have taken advantage of the U.S., but not for long!\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1019932691339399168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1019932691339399168&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftechnology%2F2018%2Fjul%2F19%2Fdonald-trump-eu-google-fine\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s trade war<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the European fine on Google was reportedly based on proven violations, Trump seemed to link the matter to a trade war he has launched on European countries.<\/p>\n<p>The US president has on numerous occasions sharply criticized Europe for what he calls unfair trade&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/20\/568663\/US-Trump-Europe-trade-war-Google\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has lambasted the European Union (UN) for slapping a record 5.1-billion-dollar (4.34-billion-euro) fine on US tech giant Google over antitrust violations. The European Commission\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 the executive arm of the EU \u2014 announced the fine on Google on Wednesday after an investigation found \u201cserious illegal behavior\u201d on the part of the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}