T-Mobile CEO Hopes Regulators OK Buying Sprint on Merits, Not Due to His Trump Hotel Stays
Some don't think regulators should or would care where executives with big deals pending spend their nights in Washington, even if it's at a hotel owned by President Donald Trump (see 1901160037). T-Mobile CEO John Legere, whose stays at a…
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Trump property blocks from the White House were criticized Wednesday, tweeted later that day that he respects "this process and am working to get our merger done the right way. I trust regulators will make their decision based on the benefits it will bring to the US, not based on hotel choices." Free State Foundation President Randolph May questioned if anyone should care where executives stay. Though he thinks the FCC public interest standard is too vague, he tweeted Thursday, "I've never imagined it to be so indeterminate as to encompass @FCC considering which hotels applicants' CEOs stayed in!”