On the surface of it John Malone seems to be flying a kite when this week he said told the Lions’ Gate Entertainment investor event that he saw no reason during a Donald Trump administration, why Comcast, Charter and Cox could not jointly acquire T-Mobile. In fact, he could even see that letting Comcast merge with Charter is a better way to even up the playing field with AT&T, if it is eventually allowed to buy Time Warner. Interestingly his personal coffers will currently be overflowing, given that he was a major direct shareholder in the Liberty business which sold DirecTV to AT&T. Malone is perhaps the only man that can even dare Think these thoughts, never mind say them…