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Tech Titans Face Tough Scrutiny from All Sides C M Y K Nxxx,2019-06-04,A,001,Bs-4C,E2 Late Edition Today, mostly sunny, high 71. To- night, increasing clouds, low 62. To- morrow, variable clouds, afternoon thunderstorms in spots, high 82. Weather map appears on Page A28. VOL. CLXVIII ... No. 58,348 © 2019 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2019 $3.00 Trump Spends TECH TITANS FACE A Royal Day TOUGH SCRUTINY In Petty Feuds FROM ALL SIDES Insult to London Mayor as He Visits Queen NEW ANTITRUST REVIEW By MARK LANDLER and MAGGIE HABERMAN Apple, Google, Facebook LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II and Amazon May welcomed President Trump to Buckingham Palace on Monday Face Inquiries with an honor guard and royal ar- tillery salute, while Mr. Trump carried on an ugly dispute with This article is by Cecilia Kang, Da- the mayor of London, whom he vid Streitfeld and Annie Karni. called a “stone cold loser” and said WASHINGTON — The federal was doing a terrible job of running government is stepping up its Britain’s capital city. scrutiny of the world’s biggest The juxtaposition of high tech companies, leaving them vul- pageantry and low name-calling, nerable to new rules and federal on the first day of Mr. Trump’s lawsuits. Regulators are divvying state visit to Britain, captured yet up antitrust oversight of the Sili- again the odd swath that this pres- con Valley giants, and lawmakers ident cuts on the world stage: im- are investigating whether they pulsive and erratic, delighted by a have stifled competition and hurt lavish welcome but preoccupied consumers. by petty feuds or events back After a spate of unusual negoti- home. ations, the Justice Department It also showcased the deep am- has agreed to handle potential an- bivalence Mr. Trump’s visit has titrust investigations related to elicited. The British public mostly DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Apple and Google, while the Fed- rejects Mr. Trump and his policies, President Trump and Prince Charles at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Monday. Mr. Trump also had tea with the prince. eral Trade Commission will take but the governing elite recognizes on Facebook and Amazon. the need to reinforce the alliance Lawmakers in the House said with the United States as it negoti- on Monday that they were looking ates Britain’s exit from the Euro- into the tech giants’ possible anti- pean Union. ‘Dumb Things’: Disastrous ’88 Campaign Still Echoes for Biden competitive behavior. That could Members of Britain’s royalty lead to the first overhaul of an- did their part, treating Mr. Trump sured them he understood — and again.” titrust rules in many decades, an and the first lady, Melania Trump, effort to keep up with an industry By MATT FLEGENHEIMER THE LONG RUN kept telling the story anyway. He vowed that day to fight on. to lunch and a lavish state ban- that didn’t exist when antitrust A Veteran’s First Attempt By that September, his reckless- He quit the race within a week. quet at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Joe Biden was riffing again — laws were written. ness as a candidate had caught up Thirty-two years later, as Mr. and Mrs. Trump had afternoon tea an R.F.K. anecdote, a word about The question of whether tech with him. He was accused of pla- Biden seeks the presidency for a with the Prince of Wales and his “civil wrongs,” a meandering joke companies violate antitrust laws ence. “I marched with tens of giarizing in campaign speeches. third time, his disastrous cam- wife, Duchess of Cornwall, at their about the baseball commissioner has long been the subject of aca- residence, Clarence House. The — and aides knew enough to thousands of others to change atti- He had inflated his academic paign for the 1988 Democratic nomination offers a revealing look demic debates and industry grip- Trumps also placed a wreath at worry a little. tudes. And we changed attitudes.” record. Reporters began calling ing. But now the industry is in the Westminster Abbey, where Eng- “When I marched in the civil More than once, advisers had out his exaggerated youth activ- at the personal tics and political flaws of the front-runner in the sights of President Trump, Demo- land’s queens and kings are rights movement, I did not march gently reminded Mr. Biden of the ism. crats running for president, Con- crowned, married and laid to rest. 2020 race — traits that, in many with a 12-point program,” Mr. Bi- problem with this formulation: He “I’ve done some dumb things,” gress and consumers. Silicon Val- But the stately narrative car- den thundered, testing his presi- had not actually marched during Mr. Biden conceded at a stop-the- ways, continue to color Mr. Bi- den’s public life. ley has faced fierce criticism over ried a more rough-edged subtext. dential message in February 1987 the civil rights movement. And bleeding news conference at the disinformation, privacy breaches Continued on Page A10 before a New Hampshire audi- more than once, Mr. Biden as- Capitol. “And I’ll do dumb things Mr. Biden was, and remains, a “gut politician,” as he has long told and political bias. associates — swaggering, ad-lib- Investors pummeled technol- bing, liable to get carried away in ogy stocks on Monday. Shares of front of a crowd. Already this year, Facebook fell more than 7 percent. Once an Enemy, he has boasted of his purportedly Google and Amazon shares were peerless foreign policy knowl- also sharply lower, and Apple’s edge, comparing himself favor- stock fell about 1 percent. Now a Promoter ably to Henry A. Kissinger, the for- It does not appear that the mer secretary of state. He has agencies have opened official in- Of Legalized Pot suggested, implausibly, that he vestigations. But the scrutiny has the most progressive record from Washington could lead to in the 2020 field. He has muddled Continued on Page A18 By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON through explanations of his treat- WASHINGTON — John A. ment of Anita Hill when she ac- Boehner, the former speaker of cused Justice Clarence Thomas of 2020 Elizabeth Warren put up a the House, once stood second in sexual harassment, at times stop- billboard that did not mince words: line for the presidency and Continued on Page A20 “Break Up Big Tech.” PAGE B3 staunchly against legalized mari- juana. Now you can find the long- time Republican standing before a wall-size photo of the Capitol, making an online infomercial Diversity Fades at Elite Schools pitch for the cannabis industry. “This is one of the most exciting opportunities you’ll ever be part In City: ‘What Has Happened?’ of,” Mr. Boehner says in an end- lessly streaming video for the Na- tional Institute for Cannabis In- By ELIZA SHAPIRO vestors. “Frankly, we can help you and K.K. REBECCA LAI make a potential fortune.” Donna Lennon will never forget Mr. Boehner’s pro-weed epiph- DANIELE VOLPE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES when she discovered she won a any coincides with the prospect of Migrants took a popular crossing on the Suchiate River from Guatemala into Mexico on Sunday. seat at Stuyvesant High School, a payday as high as $20 million one of the nation’s most revered from the industry he once so vig- public schools. orously opposed. He sits on the Ms. Lennon was sitting in Eng- board of Acreage Holdings, a ma- Mexico, Under Pressure, Begins Closing Its Doors lish class in mostly low-income rijuana investment firm whose and black East New York, Brook- sale to a cannabis industry giant grant at the hotel. “The fear never lyn, in the spring of 1981, when a hinges on Mr. Boehner’s ability to By KIRK SEMPLE Walking Back a Policy goes away.” guidance counselor delivered the persuade Congress and the fed- The Mexican government has good news. The class immediately TAPACHULA, Mexico — They eral government to legalize, or at been under intense pressure from erupted in cheers. “I couldn’t arrived at dusk, dressed for com- of Welcome as Trump least legitimize, marijuana. President Trump to block the tens speak,” Ms. Lennon, now 51, re- bat, pouring from government ve- The chain-smoking, merlot-sip- of thousands of undocumented called. hicles. A phalanx of military and Demands Action ping, former 12-term congress- migrants trudging north each Four years later, she graduated police personnel swarmed a small man from Ohio says he had never month. With the American au- alongside Dianne Morales, who hotel in the center of Tapachula, lit a joint in his life when he and the thorities unable to stop illegal im- said the school “was a diamond in this scrappy city near Mexico’s cent weeks, the Mexican authori- DEIRDRE MASON former Massachusetts governor migration into the United States, the middle of the desert” for stu- border with Guatemala. Their tar- ties have been breaking up mi- William F. Weld, now a Republican Mr. Trump has taken aim at coun- dents like her. At Stuyvesant High in the ’80s. candidate for president, joined get: undocumented migrants. grant caravans and setting up tries in the region — including Ms. Morales, who is Puerto Ri- Acreage’s board last year. This Agents rushed door to door, round-the-clock roadblocks along Guatemala, Honduras and El Sal- can and grew up in Bedford- year, Acreage announced plans to hauling people away, while mi- common routes north. who graduated from New York vador, the origins of most of the Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, still re- sell itself to Canopy Growth, a Ca- grants shouted or ran out the Detentions and deportations in City’s specialized high schools migration — threatening punish- members attending loft parties in nadian company that is the big- back, scampering over the Mexico are multiplying quickly, SoHo and visiting friends in luxu- from 1975 to 1995 described the gest cannabis holding in the rooftops of neighboring homes, sowing fear among the many ment unless they to do more.
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