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rchaud ◴[04 Apr 25 13:15 UTC] No.43581873[source]▶
Apple CEO Tim Cook made a personal $1 million "donation" to the Trump inauguration in January 2025:

> Cook, a proud Alabama native, believes the inauguration is a great American tradition, and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity, the sources said.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-mil...

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1. CalChris ◴[04 Apr 25 15:16 UTC] No.43583651[source]▶
Did Cook, in the spirit of unity, make a similar donation in 2020?
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2. rchaud ◴[04 Apr 25 16:25 UTC] No.43584684[source]▶
Of course not, that would be "political".
3. crazygringo ◴[04 Apr 25 16:36 UTC] No.43584798[source]▶
Presumably not, because that administration wasn't corrupt and wasn't demanding those kinds of things.
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4. 93po ◴[04 Apr 25 17:28 UTC] No.43585435[source]▶
Stuff like this doesn't have to be disclosed when given to PACs, so there's no way to really know
5. recursivecaveat ◴[04 Apr 25 17:36 UTC] No.43585526[source]▶
Apple donated $43K in 2021: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00765040/1513848/f13... I guess the price of a spirit of unity has been undergoing massive inflation.
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6. lenkite ◴[05 Apr 25 03:27 UTC] No.43590436[source]▶
Did you also call Obama's inaugural funding as corruption, when he was donated $53 million in 2009 and ~$43 in 2013 ?

Did you also call Biden's inaugural funding as corruption when he was donated ~$62 million ?

Donations included several billionaires - including the Gates family.

Is raising Presidential inaugural funds considered as "corruption" only for one party ? Or only when it crosses ~$100 million like President Trump did ?

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7. dragon-hn ◴[05 Apr 25 11:32 UTC] No.43592543{3}[source]▶
> Or only when it crosses ~$100 million like President Trump did ?

I believe you missed another option. The President-elect has been convicted for fraud, is a big believer in quid pro quo, and did similar actions in his first term.

Sometimes it really is about corruption.

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8. rchaud ◴[05 Apr 25 13:10 UTC] No.43593177[source]▶
That is Apple, the corp. This $1m tribute is coming straight from the CEO's pocket.
9. lenkite ◴[05 Apr 25 22:29 UTC] No.43597336{4}[source]▶
Changing the goal posts away from the inaugural funding, I see - because its fine for your side of the aisle - you have no standing there. It is now suddenly back to that horrific judgement by a partisan and corrupt judge whose daughter (Loren Merchan) was a highly-paid (multi-million) political consultant campaigning for Kamala Harris and where a misdemeanor was raised to a felony, then the felony was applied outside the standard five-year statute of limitations for felonies, the prosecution never proved which exact "unlawful means" (campaign finance, tax fraud, etc) Trump intended and where the jury was from Manhattan - which voted ~90% democrat and would have voted guilty for a non-democratic fart.

Sometimes it really is about extreme corruption.