T-Mobile CEO John Legere has stayed at President Trump’s hotel in Washington while his company seeks government approval for a $26-billion merger with Sprint.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere, left, listens to Sprint Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure before testifying at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
“Do you understand the optics of that, what it looks like? It looks like what’s happening is T-Mobile is trying to curry favor with the White House,” Johnson said. On Tuesday, Jayapal said the issue of the hotel stays was significant because of allegations that Trump may have interfered in the antitrust review of another deal, AT&T Inc.’s purchase of Time Warner.
“Except in 2015, you said you were never going to stay there,” said Jayapal, referring to an old Twitter feud with Trump in which Legere had criticized his experience at a different Trump hotel. It is unclear whether Legere committed never to stay at another Trump hotel — though he did not appear to dispute Jayapal’s characterization Tuesday — but in 2015 he did vow to leave one over a noise complaint.
Republican members needled Legere’s Democratic critics, accusing them of pursuing a non-substantive line of questioning. . U.S. officials have been trying to dissuade allies from using the Chinese technology giant’s equipment in their networks over possible spying concerns, and T-Mobile said Tuesday that it did not use the company’s gear.T-Mobile’s smartphone testing technology is at the center of federal charges of fraud and theft of trade secrets stemming from thethat T-Mobile used to test cellphones. Huawei then engineered a cover-up of the theft, prosecutors allege.
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