As a candidate, Donald Trump warned of the dangers of media concentration. Now that he’s president, however, those dangers appear to exist on a case-by-case basis.

AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner, one of the biggest media mergers ever, has suddenly hit a speed bump after Justice Dept. lawyers told company officials last week that the merger would get the green light only if it divested either DirecTV or the Turner networks, including CNN, according to sources. That raised alarms that the DOJ had been influenced in some way by the White House, and was looking to damage a news network that Trump despises.

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