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“Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple”

I’ll defend Apple as being the least shitty of the big tech giants but I can’t defend this.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 84 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why does such a thing as an inaugural fund exist? Seems like it's just to facilitate more corruption!

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't usually. The 'why' in the case is because Trump and his team refuse to sign the ethics agreement to get the normal funding from the government.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thanks, it must be amazing for Americans to have a president who won't sign a standard ethics agreement.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Up here in Canada, we're only ever 10 years behind at most.

[–] djsp@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Germany, too, is poised to follow suit at the upcoming elections in February.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Americans have been convinced to sell themselves out.

Every trump supporter is either a dipshit or someone taking advantage of dipshits.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

It's coercion but somehow legal.