Trump’s new attorney general had charged Justice Department’s antitrust chief with giving an ‘inaccurate’ account of meeting with Time Warner

President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Justice previously challenged the integrity and motivation of the agency’s current antitrust chief, according to recently published court documents, offering a conflicting account of a meeting the two attended about the merger of AT&T and Time Warner. Before the companies merged, Time Warner board member William Barr attended a meeting with the company’s general counsel and officials from the Justice Department’s antitrust division to discuss the mega-merger. While the clashing accounts of what took place at the meeting have been previously reported, the likelihood that Barr may become the nation’s top law enforcement officer renews the significance of the quarrel and raises questions about the future of the antitrust division and its personnel. Barr said Antitrust chief Makan Delrahim “would not engage in a meaningful discussion” about potential remedies to avoid a trial.