Donald Trump said he wants a new owner for CNN as part of any sale of its parent Warner Bros. Discovery – a signal that he prefers an offer by Paramount Skydance to purchase the media conglomerate versus last week’s winning bid from Netflix .

Streaming giant Netflix has agreed to buy WBD’s Warner Bros. studio and its HBO Max streaming service, leaving CNN’s current management intact. But Paramount Skydance wants to buy all of WBD including CNN – and put the latter under the news chief of its CBS subsidiary, Bari Weiss.

In the latest in a string of extraordinary declarations in the history of US regulation, Trump signaled he is directly inserting himself into a review of the WBD sale, telling reporters outright on Wednesday afternoon that it’s imperative for CNN to be under completely n

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