About two months ago, John P. Coale, one of many lawyers representing Donald Trump in a personal capacity, met with several Alphabet executives, mediators, and lawyers at Mar-a-Lago - along with his client. They all spent a lovely day at the palatial Florida estate, and Trump treated them to lunch as they chatted about anything but the antitrust cases being prosecuted against Google.

Coale was keen not to broach the matter, he told The Verge in an interview, since "it could be dicey." Whenever someone else skirted the topic of the antitrust cases - "not Google and not me," he was quick to clarify - both he and the Google people would "jump …

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