It’s going to be really hard for Dems to get too mad at President Trump over his position on the AT&T–Time Warner merger…
https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/933098318120476672
…when it’s basically the same as Elizabeth Warren’s. From CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter:
Via Hadas Gold: Sen. Elizabeth Warren sends this statement regarding the DOJ/AT&T lawsuit, similar to what other Dems said, praising the lawsuit but cautiously because of Trump’s rhetoric: “The proposed AT&T and Time Warner merger would place even more power in the hands of giant corporations while harming small businesses, entrepreneurs, and working families — and that’s why I’ve argued that it should be blocked. The President’s anti-democratic attacks on our free press have cast a cloud of suspicion over the Justice Department’s decision to try to stop this merger, but at a time when power is more and more concentrated in a handful of giant companies, the courts and the public must approach this case as they would any other — based on the law and the facts, and not President Trump’s repeated efforts to punish his enemies.“
Bonus. Here’s Warren railing against Makan Delrahim’s nomination for United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division because of the AT&T deal:
in one of the stranger twists of partisan outrage, here's Elizabeth Warren in September slamming Trump nominee Makan Delrahim over supporting the AT&T/Time Warner deal — the same deal he sued to stop today. pic.twitter.com/boBTYYjpiJ
— j.d. durkin (@jiveDurkey) November 21, 2017
A deal which he just sued to stop, which is what Warren wanted him to do in the first place:
the total 180 by Trump's antitrust top cop on the AT&T/Time Warner deal is very telling — lawyers for the merger should demand to know what made Makan Delrahim change his mind. https://t.co/Q6i0kPj5Tn
— j.d. durkin (@jiveDurkey) November 21, 2017
This town, right?
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