mellincf
11-24-2017, 09:31 AM
Trump would have to be an idiot to have interfered with this.
AT&T’s lawyers are going to demand every scrap of evidence about how this decision was made, and given Trump’s public statements about CNN it’s possible that a judge will let them have it. That probably won’t turn out well.
This is obviously a good reason for Trump not to have interfered. On the other hand, Trump is an idiot.
In any case, this could be a pretty entertaining case if AT&T’s lawyers decide to go to the mats. I’d be curious to hear from an expert or two about how likely it is that AT&T could do some serious damage to the Trump administration during discovery.
Is Donald Trump Using the Justice Department to Punish CNN? – Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/why-is-the-justice-department-blocking-the-att-time-warner-merger/#)
AT&T’s lawyers are going to demand every scrap of evidence about how this decision was made, and given Trump’s public statements about CNN it’s possible that a judge will let them have it. That probably won’t turn out well.
This is obviously a good reason for Trump not to have interfered. On the other hand, Trump is an idiot.
In any case, this could be a pretty entertaining case if AT&T’s lawyers decide to go to the mats. I’d be curious to hear from an expert or two about how likely it is that AT&T could do some serious damage to the Trump administration during discovery.
Is Donald Trump Using the Justice Department to Punish CNN? – Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/why-is-the-justice-department-blocking-the-att-time-warner-merger/#)