EXCLUSIVE: In a tough and rough election year for incumbents, Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has become a political football in California and across the nation.
Just a few feet from Donald Trump, a smiling David Ellison was front and center last night for the UFC’s controversial and inflammatory Freedom250 cage matches on the White House lawn. Still, even with the Justice Department approving the WBD merger late last week without any concessions, the Paramount Skydance’s CEO’s happy face masked some spikey obstacles to the merger from overseas and in state houses over Ellison’s strategic bear hug with the ex-Apprentice host.
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