Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged in an internal memo to employees that his company will be making two separate $1 million donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League in response to the violent Charlottesville, Va., rally.
The tech company will also double-match employee donations to these groups and others until Sept. 30, he added.
The email from Cook, which was sent to all global employees, condemns President Trump by name for blaming “both sides” for the violent rally, which was organized by white nationalist groups who were confronted by counter-protesters.
“I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights. Equating the two runs counter to our ideals as Americans,” Cook wrote in the email, which was obtained and published Wednesday evening by BuzzFeed News.
Trump announced earlier Wednesday he is disbanding his manufacturing council of business leaders as well as his CEO strategy and policy forum after a rush of business leaders criticized his handling of the Charlottesville rally.
The unexpected change came minutes after the eighth CEO resigned from the manufacturing council.
