'NOW!': Trump rips Apple for not cooperating with DOJ request

Published January 15, 2020 12:44am ET



President Trump blasted Apple in a Tuesday tweet, claiming they were frustrating law enforcement by not unlocking the phones of criminals.

“We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements,” Trump wrote. “They will have to step up to the plate and help our great Country, NOW!”

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