On Wednesday, Donald Trump called on Apple to unlock the phones of two individuals accused of trying to kill him, in order to help the FBI investigation. Trump remarked that this is because the agency is unable to open “three potentially foreign-based apps” on the phone of the shooter in Pennsylvania and several other cell phones belonging to the golf club shooter.
“They have to make sure that Apple opens the foreign apps, and they have to make sure that Apple too opens the six phones of the second lunatic,” the Republican presidential candidate told voters during a campaign stop in North Carolina.
Also, he blamed the President Joe Biden for his inactivity regarding the threats of an assassination attempt from Iran.
“What will I do if I am President? I will tell the said country that you threaten this person, and if she is harmed, we are going to blow up your major city as well as your country into smithereens,” Trump said.
At the same time, according to an article by Bloomberg, the company faced strong criticism during Trump’s presidency after it refused to unlock the mobile device of a Royal Saudi Air Force officer charged with murdering three sailors in 2021.
Apple Inc. has refused to work on a backdoor in its phone software that law enforcement agencies have been saying for many years would make it easier for them to access information without using a password due to security reasons, contenting that it would amount to providing a gift to hackers.
The U.S intelligence appraised Trump that there exist “real and serious” attempts on his assassination coming from Iranians.
In return, Trump, posing on X, later wrote, After these threats, It is called life, seriously threatening to kill me Tubas, Iran’s, All of US military’s are standing up, Israel Regardless of provocations that Iran made and fail, They will make attempt or more Daghan taken any quarter the scenario is ugly for all aimed at me. “I have more men, guns and all forms of weapons that have never been with me.” I appreciate Congress, may be for the first time in history, all the members including every Republican voted in favor of giving much more funds to the Secret Service – absolutely zero votes against ‘No’. It’s been great to see bipartisan unity of the Republican and the Democratic Parties on some issues. A blow against a past President is an invitation to death for the assailant!”
