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11-13-2017, 01:23 AM
Donald Trump denies he's using the AT&T-Time Warner merger to get revenge on CNN
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President Donald Trump was always against (http://mashable.com/2016/10/22/trump-att-time-warner/) a merger between AT&T and Time Warner, and he's always hated CNN. So the appearance that he was using his position to force Time Warner to ditch CNN (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/cnn-time-warner-att-sell-to-merge/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) to close the $85 billion deal made a strange, vindictive kind of sense.*
Now, however, Trump is denying any attempts to exact revenge on his cable news nemesis.*
SEE ALSO: CNN fiasco reveals heated battle between AT&T and Trump (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/cnn-time-warner-att-sell-to-merge/)
Trump said he “didn’t make that decision. That was made by a man who is actually a very respected person, a very, very respected person," Variety reported (http://variety.com/2017/politics/news/president-donald-trump-att-time-warner-1202612683/). Trump made the comments—likely about Justice Department antitrust chief Makan Delrahim—during his trip through Asia.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/12/time-warner-att-cnn-trump-denial/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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President Donald Trump was always against (http://mashable.com/2016/10/22/trump-att-time-warner/) a merger between AT&T and Time Warner, and he's always hated CNN. So the appearance that he was using his position to force Time Warner to ditch CNN (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/cnn-time-warner-att-sell-to-merge/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) to close the $85 billion deal made a strange, vindictive kind of sense.*
Now, however, Trump is denying any attempts to exact revenge on his cable news nemesis.*
SEE ALSO: CNN fiasco reveals heated battle between AT&T and Trump (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/cnn-time-warner-att-sell-to-merge/)
Trump said he “didn’t make that decision. That was made by a man who is actually a very respected person, a very, very respected person," Variety reported (http://variety.com/2017/politics/news/president-donald-trump-att-time-warner-1202612683/). Trump made the comments—likely about Justice Department antitrust chief Makan Delrahim—during his trip through Asia.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/12/time-warner-att-cnn-trump-denial/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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