To the Editor:

Re “Trump Gambles and Loses on AT&T” (editorial, June 14):

How disappointing to find The Times celebrating the fact that Judge Richard Leon has allowed AT&T to purchase Time Warner, producing a communications juggernaut that will have tremendous power in the lives of Americans.

We can expect more expensive options for home entertainment, mobile phone services, and other communications and TV-related aspects of our lives. We can expect more political power for a behemoth that controls large portions of the American airwaves and has huge revenues to contribute to political ends. And we can expect this vertical monopoly to affect us in other ways that we can’t even envision.

You say we should celebrate this decision because President Trump opposed the merger out of a desire to spite CNN. But are you celebrating out of a desire to spite Mr. Trump?

In 2017, several liberal senators — including Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Al Franken — urged the Justice Department to oppose the merger. It spites them, too. And it spites Americans.