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The court’s decision to let AT&T and Time Warner merge is bad
- craftyguy 8y agoWhy isn't the DOJ and Senor Trump appealing? Oh right, congressional elections later this year, that would risk losing out on corporate campaign contributions.
- jandrese 8y agoHas Trump made any mention of displeasure over the deal? It doesn't seem like something he would be opposed to.
- kgwgk 8y agohttp://money.cnn.com/2016/10/22/media/donald-trump-att-time-warner/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/22/media/donald-trump-att-time-... http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/21/media/trump-comments-att-time-warner/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/21/media/trump-comments-att-tim...
- starik36 8y agoYes he did. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/995088584221839360 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/99508858422183936...
- rectang 8y agoPlus, his fixer (Eliot Cohen) took a bribe from AT&T. Even if Trump wasn't happy with all aspects of the deal, double-crossing a customer too aggressively would be a bad look.
- Fej 8y agoHistory repeats itself. Ma Bell had to be broken up once; the Baby Bells have since largely reorganized into AT&T and Verizon, and now they're pulling in companies from other fields, too. We already learned this lesson once. I guess we're going to have to learn it again.
- extralego 8y agoHistory never repeats itself, but it rhymes. They got together, got broken up, then reorganized, but instead of getting broken up again, they got bigger.