Why AT&T Probably Will Get to Buy Time Warner After All [telecom]

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By Aaron Pressman

President Donald Trump repeatedly singled out AT&T's deal to buy Time Warner during the campaign as the kind of combination he wouldn't allow as president.

But after the Trump administration this week picked a longtime antitrust lawyer, Makan Delrahim, to head the Justice Department office that reviews mergers, the threats to block AT&T appear ever more likely to be another campaign trail promise that won't be fulfilled.