Donald Trump Calls For Apple Boycott Due To Encryption Case Against FBI
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The case, Apple versus the FBI, has everyone taking sides. On Wednesday Google CEO Sundar Pichai backed Apple and so have Twitter. On the other side, presidential hopeful and GOP nominee Donald Trump is siding with the FBI.
The billionaire businessman took to twitter to voice his sentiments.
He concluded it by saying,
According to CNN, Trump tweeted these while at a town hall-style event in South Carolina.
CNN says when Addressing his supporters he said,
"Boycott Apple until such time as they give that information," Trump said. "Apple ought to give the security for that phone, OK. What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such a time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just thought of it. Boycott Apple."
"The phone's not even owned by this young thug that killed all these people. The phone's owned by the government, OK, it's not even his phone," Trump said. "But (Apple CEO) Tim Cook is looking to do a big number, probably to show how liberal he is. But Apple should give up, they should get the security or find other people."
Some Twitter users seemed to disagree with him.
can we boycott trump instead
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 19, 2016
But, Trump isn't the only one siding with the FBI. His GOP competitors Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Marco Rubio all believe that Apple should help the FBI unlock the iPhone of the accused San Bernardino killer.
The three republican presidential candidates laid out their views in a televised town hall debate.
There has to be a way to deal with this issue," Rubio said. "I don't have a magic solution for it today … but I do know this: It will take a partnership between the technology industry and the government to solve this."
Cruz said, "Apple has a serious argument" in protecting users' privacy but said resisting the FBI's request for help amounted to defying a search warrant.
Carson said that Apple should find a way to get over mistrust of the government, but then added that might have to wait until President Obama leaves office, allowing for a delay that the FBI would probably oppose.
Apple and the FBI have been going head to head ever since the tech company decided to defy a judge's order to unlock Syed Rizwan Farook's iphone.
Farook is just one of two slain killers accused of murdering more than a dozen people at Christmas Party last year.