Donald Trump, the outspoken and prominent Republican presidential candidate again took the centre stage.
This time around, however, he criticized Apple Inc against its decision of rejecting the court order of providing FBI assistance to hack into iPhone belonging to Rizwan Farook, one of the gunmen involved in San Bernardino attacks.
According to MSNBC, Donald Trump in an interview to Fox said, “I agree 100 percent with the courts,”. “We should open it up. I think security overall. We have to open it up and we have to use our heads. We have to use common sense.”
“Our country has got so many problems,” Trump said. “These are two people radicalized who were given a wedding party by the people that they killed. There’s something going on. We have to be very careful. We have to be very vigilant. But to think that Apple won’t allow us to get into her cell phone - who do they think they are? No, we have to open it up.”
According to The Blaze, Trump further added in the interview, “I have always felt security first. Apple should, we should force them to do it. We should do whatever we have to do,” Trump said.
Giving the reason Apple’s CEO decision to fight the order, Trump says it’s because Cook is “being a good liberal” who “doesn’t want to give the information.”
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook in an open letter said the court order an “an overreach by the U.S. government.” He added that the court order “has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.” Contending that the unlocking the iPhone would establish a “dangerous precedent.”
However, Trump rejected Cook’s reasoning said, “Apple, this is one case. And this is a case that certainly we should be able to get into the phone and we should find out what happened, why it happened. And maybe there’s other people involved and we have to do that.”
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