The following article by Harper Neidig was posted on the Hill website November 22, 2017:
President Trump’s feud with CNN is casting a shadow over the Justice Department’s lawsuit to block AT&T from merging with Time Warner, the news outlet’s parent company.
The Justice Department’s decision to bring a lawsuit against a vertical merger — a deal involving two companies that aren’t direct competitors — is a major shift in antitrust policy from previous administrations.
To those who have been raising the alarm about corporate consolidation, the move is long overdue, and a sign that regulators in the Trump administration won’t be a rubber stamp for such major deals. Continue reading “Trump looms large in AT&T antitrust battle”