The fight over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery is really a battle to decide who will control much of the news and entertainment Americans consume. So perhaps it is no surprise that President Donald Trump is wading straight into the middle of the fray between Netflix and Paramount Skydance.

Trump’s assertion this week that he will play a role in deciding the winner of that battle tests the “boundaries of his power,” said The New York Times . “I’ll be involved in that decision,” he said to reporters. Congress gave merger oversight authority to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s antitrust division, said the Times, but the law does not “specify a personal role for presidents” to influence that process “on a whim or for their own benefit.” Trump is thrusting h

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