“I have no regrets about the part that I played in his career,” Zucker said of Trump in a 2020 interview with the New York Times. When AT&T moved to acquire CNN owner Time Warner in 2017, Trump’s Justice Department tried to hold up the deal. When the merger went through in June 2018, Trump urged Zucker’s new bosses to fire him. “The hatred and extreme bias of me by @CNN has clouded their thinking and made them unable to function,” Trump said in August of that year. “Little Jeff Z has done a terrible job, his ratings suck, & AT&T should fire him to save credibility!”

Source: CNN February 07, 2022 23:17 UTC