Hours after Trump’s comments, Paramount CEO David Ellison—the son of billionaire GOP megadonor and close Trump ally Larry Ellison—announced the hostile bid to buy WBD, attempting to subvert the Netflix deal by taking an all-cash, $30-per-share offer directly to Warner Bros. shareholders.
Observers expressed alarm over the seeming coordination between the president and Paramount’s chief executive as the fight over Warner Bros. escalates. Trump reportedly favored Paramount to win the bidding war for WBD, which owns CNN, HBO Max, and other major assets.
Ellison was reportedly at the White House last week urging the Trump administration to block Netflix’s bid for WBD.
Speaking to CNBC on Monday, Ellison said that “we’ve had great conversations with the president about” Paramount—which controls CBS News thanks to a merger that the Trump administration approved—potentially becoming the owner of CNN, a frequent target of Trump’s vitriol.
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Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is investor in Paramount’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros
The private equity firm that’s headed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is part of the group that’s joining Paramount’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery, regulatory filings revealed on Monday.
Looks like the first Netflix Peace Prize won’t be enough to let this go through.
Well, whoever wins, it can be certain the consumer loses.
All the BiAsEd MeDiA chanting from the Reich will come to an end when it’s all party propaganda TV. Suddenly it will all be ok to only have a strict “conservative” news media. Hypocrites as usual.
Bu but burisma! Laptop!!
