Joe Nocera, Columnist

Trump's Already Tainted U.S. Antitrust Lawyers

However the Justice Department rules on the AT&T-Time Warner deal, the reek of politics will linger.

November 11, 2017 at 5:21 PM UTC

Joe Nocera is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and the New York Times, and is the former editorial director of Fortune. He is the host and writer of the Bloomberg-Wondery podcast "The Shrink Next Door."

What's that smell?
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I spent part of Thursday reading and listening to people pooh-poohing the thesis I laid out in the morning—namely, that the U.S. Justice Department was putting roadblocks in the way of the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger because President Donald Trump wanted to stick it to CNN, which is a Time Warner Inc. property.

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