Gail Slater
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Gail Slater was the official put in charge of the antitrust unit within the Department of Justice, coming from JD Vance's office and seen, per Sean Davis, a co-panelist alongside John Kiriakou on the same Megyn Kelly episode, as a "mega populist" who would translate that agenda into scrutiny of big tech and other large companies.

Davis says the Bondi Department of Justice was "pretty actually bad" on antitrust, and that Slater "had all her power taken away", firms that had reached settlements with the DOJ were able to sidestep her office and avoid the normal scrutiny that should accompany a settlement. As an example, Davis cites the merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks, providers of Wi-Fi and networking services to stadiums and hospitals, which he says was settled with the DOJ "behind closed doors, literally over cocktails", raising, in his account, serious legal questions.

When Slater's team objected to the settlement, one of her deputies was fired, and Slater herself was fired soon after. Davis describes the episode as an example of campaign-trail populism that "cashed out as kind of crony capitalism" under Pam Bondi, and says he does not believe Bondi "did right by her."
