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Tim Cook Is Latest Tech Exec to Kiss the Ring, Gives Trump's Inauguration $1 Million

Cook is personally giving the money, keeping Apple out of it.

Following in the footsteps of his tech industry peers, Apple CEO Tim Cook has decided to donate a million dollars to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. That news comes from Axios, which reported Friday that the donation represents the culmination of “a long, collaborative relationship between Trump and Cook” that began years ago and has involved numerous meetings, including a recent dinner at Mar-a-Lago. The companies that were the biggest spenders for Trump’s 2016 inauguration included Lockheed Martin and Boeing, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, as well as Dow Chemical, Pfizer, Microsoft, Google, and a number of private prison companies.

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