JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [11-12-18] suggested possible antitrust scrutiny for Comcast, which owns one of Trump’s frequent targets, NBC News…The association, which represents smaller cable companies, has asked the Justice Department’s antitrust division to investigate Comcast’s merger with NBCUniversal, saying it poses a threat to competition. The Comcast-NBCU deal was approved by the Obama administration with conditions in 2011, but those conditions have expired in recent months. Trump quoted from a Fox Business Network segment in which journalist Charles Gasparino cites the cable group as saying Comcast could be much more damaging to consumers than the AT&T-Time Warner merger, a deal that the Trump administration is fighting in court.”
–John Hendel, “Trump points to possible antitrust problems for Comcast,” Politico, November 12, 2018 4:12 pm