FCC Chairman Pai says President Trump has not contacted him on Sinclair deal

President Donald Trump has not contacted the Federal Communications Commission about its lack of approval for Sinclair's deal to buy Tribune, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said. “No one in the White House has contacted us to express a view about the merger,” Chairman Pai said. A Trump tweet on the issue raised the question of whether he had involved himself in the decisionmaking progress of an independent regulator. “I will simply say what I said to Congress, which is, I stand by our decision. We looked at the facts and applied the law as we do in any transaction,” Chairman Pai said.