AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, left, and Bob Quinn, who was AT&T’s top lobbying executive, arrive for a meeting with then-President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York in January 2017. “There is no other way to say it — AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake.”The email comes at a critical time for AT&T. When it swung its deal with Cohen, AT&T was seeking approval for its merger with Time Warner. Cohen was also in the building that day, but he and Stephenson did not meet and have never met, AT&T said. Cohen had reached out to AT&T even before Stephenson’s huddle with the president, the person said.

Source: Washington Post May 11, 2018 13:49 UTC