Donald Trump denies he's using the AT&T-Time Warner merger to get revenge on CNN

President Donald Trump was always against a merger between AT&T and Time Warner, and he's always hated CNN. So the appearance that he was using his position to force Time Warner to ditch CNN to close the $85 billion deal made a strange, vindictive kind of sense. 
Now, however, Trump is denying any attempts to exact revenge on his cable news nemesis. 
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Trump said he “didn’t make that decision. That was