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Four auto companies recently reached an agreement with the State of California regarding emissions standards. California agreed to dial back its standards slightly, and the four companies agreed to comply with the dialed-back standards without challenging them. This provoked yet another of Donny's temper tantrums, because he doesn't like that California, under the Clean Air Act, has the authority to set its own emissions standards (which it has used to make air-quality gains that are literally visible to the naked eye).

So Donny decided to use the power of the U.S. government to retaliate. The Department of Justice has now opened an antitrust investigation against those four automakers for reaching this agreement with California. It should be noted that it's well established law that agreements to comply with express provisions of state law are immune from antitrust scrutiny. So this is obviously nothing more than an attempt to force these private companies to spend lots and lots of money on legal fees for having the audacity to undercut Donny's efforts to undermine California. --Bob

I'm not going to do a Mueller like you lefties did, but this thread may become very ironic in the weeks, months ahead.