Trump wanted an AG who would be “my Roy Cohn.” Looks like he has one on everything except the RussiaGate investigation from which Sessions was forced to recuse himself, despite the best laid joint plan of Trump, Nunes, Sessions, Burr, Coats and Pompeo.
In which Democrats create the appearance of defending corporate mega mergers and the resulting massive job losses. Not a good look. If the Trump “Administration” broke any laws in their handling of this matter, yes, by all means, hold them accountable. But make sure to stress that you aren’t supporting corporate mega mergers, which are demonstrably detrimental to the public good while enriching a chosen few…
Interfering with a media entities first amendment right to free and protected speech is a gross abuse of power and requires a thorough, unbiased investigation. A special counsel if necessary.
Whoa! Let’s not get ahead of ourselves! Time Warner and AT&T are certainly going to frame this as a First Amendment matter and not a business matter because the former creates a veneer of altruism cloaking a ruthless business agenda. This merger was definitely NOT in the public interest. But if the Trump “Administration” broke any laws in thwarting it. they should be held accountable. So hold off on building CNN any pedestals to stand on. It is a network that has consistently failed to broadcast in the public interest, and has plenty of blood on its hands for the Making of President Trump…
Only reason trump was even involved in this was b/c he wanted to retaliate against jeff zucker the ceo of cnn b/c trump felt that zucker wasnt crediting trump for his success after trump had him produce the apprentice days @ NBC…
typical asswipe…
This has got DOTUS revenge for CNN written all over it. Once again it’s all about him.
MAGA = Make Attorneys General Allegiant
The whole point of their letter is to go after Trump’s meddling. It doesn’t state one way or the other what their stance is on mergers, nor should it.
Interesting though to see republicans and Donald opposed to the making of a huuuuge company
Wouldn’t it be cute if this was part of Mueller’s scope?
speculation that the Trump administration was politically motivated to opposed the merger due to the President’s disdain for CNN.
Speculation? It is happening in broad daylight & Trump is basically providing a real time closed caption transcription of remarks (& associated motivations) … and fundamentally Trump is grinning at the Democrats and saying - “So? whatta ya gonna do bout it?”
- and what is the right way that the specific question of the merger should turn out ? potentially there is going to be this weird scenario where there is a progressive faction that opposes the merger on antitrust concerns basis but is filled with rage at Trump for essentially getting to a similar end result - but via horrible corrupt vengeful reasoning .
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Naw, I like Rachel’s acronym better: Make Attorneys Get Attorneys !
Wasn’t this the deal that trump’s people said they would approve as long as CNN was ditched?
Simple explanation.
Hence the use of the modifier appearance…
Following your logic, anything not stated in that later would give the appearance of their support for the thing not stated. It doesn’t appear at all as if they support mega mergers. It appears that they would like to do their jobs without executive interference and are interested in determining if the Trump WH directly meddled in the process.