Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 85
Block the AT&T-Time Warner merger
Never delivered“[paraphrase] AT&T's purchase of Time Warner is too much concentration of power; my administration will not approve it.”
- Promised
- , "Contract with the American Voter" speech, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Re-promised
- 3 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Economy & prices
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
The Justice Department sued to stop the merger in November 2017 and lost in district court in June 2018. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in February 2019 and the deal closed. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.