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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/boy-scouts-president-has-85-billion-reasons-to-excuse-trumps-wildly-inappropriate-jamboree-speech/The Boy Scouts of America have been criticized by some for their weak response to President Donald Trumps highly politicized speech this week before the Boy Scout Jamboree in which he got thousands of scouts to boo former President Barack Obama.
As a new report from QZ notes, the president of the Boy Scouts of America has tens of billions of reasons to not more forcefully criticize the presidents speech at the Jamboree, as it could hurt his chances of getting his companys mega-merger approved.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson became the president of the BSA just over a year ago, and at the moment he is seeking approval from the Trump administration to sign off on a proposed $85 billion acquisition of media company Time Warner, Inc.
The [Department of Justice] is currently conducting an antitrust review, which evaluates how the deal would affect competition in the industry, writes QZ. The process is supposed to be private and apolitical, but there are concerns in Congress that president Trump is trying try to influence it.
Among other things, members of Congress have expressed concern that Trump would approve the merger only on the condition that Stephenson order CNN which is owned by Time Warner to give the president more positive media treatment.
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Girard442
(6,094 posts)But then again we used to think conservative Christians did and look where that got us.
PatSeg
(47,817 posts)These days, nothing is as it seems. Perhaps it has always been that way, but it sure seems to be worse now than ever. Perhaps we are living in a perpetual "Opposite Day", I'm exhausted.
Faux pas
(14,728 posts)rzemanfl
(29,589 posts)Cherchez l'argent, pas la femme!
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/exhibition-cherchez-la-femme
delisen
(6,051 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,052 posts)yucking it up with Trumpstain?
FSogol
(45,604 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,052 posts)FSogol
(45,604 posts)in the face of what Scouting stands for.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)no honor
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