Ted Sarandos To Meet With Donald Trump Tomorrow At Mar-A-Lago As Media Pilgrimages Continue
deadline.comEarlier this year, Ted Sarandos backed a winner in new Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, and now the Netflix co-CEO is heading to Florida to make friends in even higher places.
One day after Donald Trump bragged in a Mar-a-Lago press conference that “everybody wants to be my friend,” Sarandos will be breaking bread with the President-elect, sources close to the situation have confirmed for Deadline.
Neither Netflix nor the Trump transition team replied to requests for comment on the scheduled Tuesday sit-down. If and when they do, this post will be updated.
Having scored a $15 million payout and an apology from ABC News this weekend to settle a defamation suit Trump had hit the Disney-owned outlet and anchor George Stephanopoulos with, the former and future POTUS has indicated pretty strongly he intends to sue more and more media organizations even after he gets back in the Oval Office. “We have to straighten out our press,” he said speaking before noticeably respectful reporters Monday. “Our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections,” Trump added, while listing off outlets he doesn’t like (CBS’ 60 Minutes, the Des Moines Register) and those he does (a.k.a.
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