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Apple’s CEO Disagrees With Trump, Promises Donations To Rights Groups

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook has joined a chorus of business leaders who have voiced their opposition to United States President Donald Trump after he … Continue reading Apple’s CEO Disagrees With Trump, Promises Donations To Rights Groups


Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook has joined a chorus of business leaders who have voiced their opposition to United States President Donald Trump after he blamed white nationalists and anti-racism activists equally for violence in Virginia over the weekend.

“I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights. Equating the two runs counter to our ideals as Americans,” Cook wrote in a note late on Wednesday to employees, according to technology news website Recode.

Earlier in the week, Cook went to social media to tweet his condemnation of the “the terror of white supremacy & racist violence.”

Cook also said in the letter that Apple will donate $1 million a piece to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League and will match two-for-one their donations to the organizations and other human rights groups until Sept. 30.

Cook’s letter came hours after Trump disbanded two high-profile business advisory councils as several chief executives quit in protest over his remarks blaming weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on anti-racism activists as well as white nationalists that left a 32-year-old woman dead.

Earlier on Wednesday, the company was disabling Apple Pay on several websites that sell attire and items in support of white nationalists and hate groups, several tech news websites reported.