No, fireman, ONCE AGAIN, you are distorting what I said. Here is my exact quotation:
"Neither Apple nor Tim Cook are among the listed donors to the Clinton Foundation, nor has Apple ever paid either of the Clintons to come and make a speech, nor were they among the major donors to the Democrats in the 2012 Election cycle. There were some small, minor donations from individuals associated with Apple and the Apple Employees Political Action Committee made donations, but NOT Apple."
Having no listing in Clinton Foundation donor listing they've released, nor having Clinton come speak at Apple or at an Apple event, IS NOT the same as having "no association with the Clinton Foundation" as you characterized my statement. (However, we do know that the Clinton Foundation is not above purging names from its donor list that are, shall we say, embarrassing to find there. We know they have done it in the past.)
It is, in fact, possible that Tim Cook did indeed make a donation to the Clinton Foundation, but it was not large enough to make the list of major or significant donors, or he made his donation as part of a group of donors which would be subsumed under the name of the group on the list. Frankly, I do not know.
Do NOT infer something in what I said that I did not say. You anti-Apple people are always putting words into what I write that I did not write. If you are going to disagree with what I write, use the words I actually wrote, not some other words you wish I had written to construct a Strawman for you to shoot down.
For all you or I know, Tim Cook may have met Bill Clinton at a Foundation event which Cook attended representing another group he is associated with, at a speaking engagement where Bill WAS the speaker, or some other relationship having to do with the Clinton Foundation in which both Bill Clinton and Tim Cook were both present. Although many of us were very suspicious of the purpose of the Foundation, just because of who they were, until the evidence started being revealed, the Clinton Foundation was mostly thought to be a beneficial non-profit, not a criminal enterprise. It was only when some enterprising and tenacious REAL journalists started turning over rocks and connecting some well hidden dots were we and the rest of the world to start learning the facts about what was really going on under Hillary's pantsuits and behind Bill's zipper.
However, the important statement here is that Tim Cook knew Bill Clinton OUTSIDE OF POLITICS, and then only peripherally, which supports what I was trying to tell you that Apple, for many years was essentially an apolitical entity even given the liberal Leanings of its leadership. In many ways, it still is.
I did not address your donation patterns you put up graphs about in an earlier post because it was late (or actually too early in the morning). . . But those had to do with Apple's efforts to enact STRONG ENCRYPTION LAWS for mobile devices, not generally about supporting just Democrats as you were implying. Notice that Republican Congressman Darryl Issa, who is NOT a supporter of Gay marriage, got a donation from Apple. Why? Because he is supporting Apple's initiative to back user privacy and strong encryption for mobile phones, tablets, and computers. Individual privacy rights. It is unfortunate, or perhaps fortunate, that there are fellow travelers in the Democrats who are also supporters of that too, but that was the test for those donations, not party line.
“Neither Apple nor Tim Cook are among the listed donors to the Clinton Foundation, nor has Apple ever paid either of the Clintons to come and make a speech, nor were they among the major donors to the Democrats in the 2012 Election cycle. There were some small, minor donations from individuals associated with Apple and the Apple Employees Political Action Committee made donations, but NOT Apple.”
Look Swordmaker, I distorted nothing, your obvious intention with the statement was to convince people that Tim Cook and Apple are not closely associated to the Clinton Foundation. As with so many of your statements in this thread, this is simply far from the truth. Executive Vice President of Apple Lisa Jackson, is on the foundation's board. And Tim Cook, is close enough to Bill Clinton from his association with the Clinton foundation that he is the second person that he said that he called when he was subpoenaed by Congress to testify about Apples “unusual” tax avoidance strategies.