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Cohn Didn’t Have to Stop the AT&T-Time Warner Merger
Trump had his man in the Justice Department ready to file suit against his enemy CNN.
Let’s try this again.
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Oh, how the AT&T-Time Warner plot thickens!
Less than a week after an appeals court ruling upheld the merger of the two companies — scoffing at the Justice Department’s arguments for blocking it, just as the district court had done — the New Yorker magazine published this anecdote, as part of Jane Mayer’s article on the relationship between Fox News and the president: