Kushner told CNN to fire hundreds of employees over 2016 election coverage https://t.co/G8O8DcQVn1 pic.twitter.com/hrVVd0kufO
— The Hill (@thehill) November 11, 2017
It's like the spoiled rich-kid villain from a John Hughes movie somehow got a White House security clearance. https://t.co/hd1QKIhDQ6
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 11, 2017
… Kushner told Time Warner executive Gary Ginsberg that CNN should fire the employees because they were so wrong in their analysis of how the election would turn out, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
A White House official said Kushner didn’t intend for the comment to be taken seriously and was only trying to make a point, according to the Journal, which reported that the remark “wasn’t taken lightly” inside Time Warner…
CNN and its parent company Time Warner were in the spotlight this week over reports that the Trump administration wanted CNN sold as a condition of a merger between AT&T and Time Warner.
Justice Department sources told The Hill and other outlets earlier this week that AT&T had offered to sell CNN from the combined company to get the merger approved by regulators. Other outlets reported that the Trump administration had demanded the sale.
Speculation among Wall Street insiders and people within the companies has risen over whether the administration’s feelings about CNN could be influencing the decision, the Journal reported…
In non-bizarro America, the White House trying to force AT&T to sell CNN & a conservative media mogul trying to buy it would be a huge scandal.
In Trump’s America it’s Tuesday https://t.co/CcKjEyOTpi
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) November 10, 2017
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