“The circumstances surrounding Apple’s exemptions raise fresh concerns about influence-peddling by huge well-connected corporations, and their ability to gain special favors from President Trump,” Warren wrote in a letter to Cook which was obtained by Bloomberg News.

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    How quickly we moved beyond the point where a president being better connected to corporations than the constituents he is meant to represent actually matters. Now we just want some insight into the backroom deals.

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      Quickly? Not from my perspective.

      It’s just that suddenly the curtain was ripped away. We all knew this was the trend, it was just never so direct or blatant