Trump ridicules Google boss after meeting him at White House: He ‘worked very hard to explain how much he liked me’

Donald Trump has re-ignited a row with Google, sharing conspiracy theories about the search giant.

In a series of tweets, the president described how he claimed Google CEO Sundar Pichai had come to the White House and said "how much he liked" the president, as well as what a good job he was doing.

But Mr Trump said that he now believed that Mr Pichai could have been lying about its relationship with the Chinese government and claimed that it could have tried to help Hillary Clinton win.

It represents a renewed attack on the search giant by Mr Trump, who has repeatedly cast aspersions on Google and suggested that he will seek increased regulation.

Google has always denied the president's claims about its search results being biased, as well as suggestions that it has secretly worked with the Chinese military. In July, when Mr Trump previously tweeted unverified claims about Google, the company said: "As we have said before, we do not work with the Chinese military".

In the new series of tweets, he made that claim again while appearing to ridicule Mr Pichai.

"Sundar Pichai of Google was in the Oval Office working very hard to explain how much he liked me, what a great job the Administration is doing, that Google was not involved with China’s military, that they didn’t help Crooked Hillary over me in the 2016 Election, and that they are NOT planning to illegally subvert the 2020 Election despite all that has been said to the contrary," he wrote on Twitter.

"It all sounded good until I watched Kevin Cernekee, a Google engineer, say terrible things about what they did in 2016 and that they want to 'Make sure that Trump losses in 2020.'"

Kevin Cernekee is a former Google employee who claims that staff at the company want Donald Trump to lose in the 2020 election. He has not provided concrete evidence of his claims that the company is biased towards liberal candidates.

Mr Trump then went on to share claims that the company made by a series of conservative commentators.

"Lou Dobbs stated that this is a fraud on the American public. Peter Schweizer stated with certainty that they suppressed negative stories on Hillary Clinton, and boosted negative stories on Donald Ttump.

"All very illegal. We are watching Google very closely!"

Google explicitly denied all of the claims.

“The statements made by this disgruntled former employee are absolutely false," a Google spokesperson said. "We go to great lengths to build our products and enforce our policies in ways that don't take political leanings into account.

"Distorting results for political purposes would harm our business and go against our mission of providing helpful content to all of our users."

The president has repeatedly suggested on Twitter that he will launch investigations into Google, over allegations of bias and its work with the Chinese government.

Google has always denied that the search results have been intentionally skewed to show negative stories about Mr Trump or positive ones about Ms Clinton.

Mr Trump had previously said that his meetings with the Google boss had ended positively.

"Just met with Sundar Pichai, President of Google, who is obviously doing quite well," he tweeted in March.

"He stated strongly that he is totally committed to the U.S. Military, not the Chinese Military. Also discussed political fairness and various things that Google can do for our Country.

"Meeting ended very well!"