Trump slams Apple for resisting encryption order

Published February 17, 2016 8:34pm ET



Donald Trump said Wednesday that Apple should cooperate more with the government’s effort to break into a device used by one of the terrorists involved with the December attack in San Bernardino, Calif.

“Apple, this is one case, 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,” Trump said during an appearance on “Fox and Friends.”

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