When Democratic donors attacked the Biden-Harris administration’s chief antitrust regulator Lina Khan during this year’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris declined to defend her, prompting some critics to say Harris was abandoning a populist message during a heated campaign.
At the time, the public did not know what was just revealed: Khan’s agency had launched a probe of the rideshare giant employing Harris’s brother-in-law and top adviser, who helped craft the Democratic campaign’s economic pitch to voters and big donors.
