Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt offered a full-throated defense of the search company, criticizing the government’s day-old antitrust suit as misguided, unduly influenced by politics and a distraction from more serious issues facing the technology industry and the country. Mr. Schmidt, a board member of Google parent Alphabet Inc. until last year and a longtime liberal political donor, described the suit as “largely driven by Republicans, at the end of a term of a president whose polling indicates that he’s unlikely to be re-elected.”
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