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AT&T’s $600,000 payment to Michael Cohen looks like wasted money
[Commentary] AT&T's hiring of Michael Cohen in January 2017 to advise the company on an $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner looked like a smart strategy. In retrospect, AT&T's contract with Cohen appears to have been a complete failure. In November 2017, 10 months after AT&T retained Cohen, the Justice Department sued to block the company's purchase of Time Warner, citing antitrust concerns. Whatever efforts Cohen made to grease the skids did not work. The only visible evidence of President Trump taking a friendlier posture toward AT&T during the period when the company p
Cohen’s $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show
Three days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, AT&T turned to his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for help on a wide portfolio of issues pending before the federal government — including the company’s proposed merger with Time Warner.
Candidate can use campaign funds to pay for babysitter, FEC rules (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 18:44These are the most popular Russian Facebook ads from each month (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 15:53What data on more than 3,500 Russian Facebook ads reveals about the interference effort (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 15:20Many Russia-linked Facebook ads weren’t explicitly pro-Trump. That doesn’t mean they weren’t pro-Trump. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 15:18President Trump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage
The Media Research Center says that 91 percent of network news coverage of President Donald Trump from January through April 2018 was negative. [The Media Research Center, please note, is part of the conglomerate of conservative enterprises funded by Robert Mercer and his family, the folks that also funded Cambridge Analytica, Breitbart and former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon.] To which President Trump replied: "The Fake News is working overtime.