U.S House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took shots at Apple CEO Tim Cook for participating in a GOP fundraiser in Silicon Valley this week.
Pelosi, who represents the nearby 12th district of California, called Cook “naive” for helping House Speaker Paul Ryan raise money for her rivals in the GOP, especially after the company just broke off its support for the GOP convention.
“Everybody has the right to do whatever they want to do,” Pelosi told SF Gate. “But when they say, ‘We don’t like what Trump says, but we’ll donate to his party,’ they’re either naive or they think we’re naive.”
Tim Cook’s GOP fundraiser with Paul Ryan is being co-hosted by Apple VP & Treasurer Gary Wipfler in Menlo Park, California today. The private breakfast was announced just days after Apple decided to not donate cash and technology to the GOP convention due to Donald Trump’s vitriolic remarks about immigrants, minorities and women.
Any cash Tim Cook raises could be bad news for Pelosi. The congresswoman is up for reelection this year, though she doesn’t have a problem raising an enormous amount of cash herself, which she also spreads to other Democrat campaigns.
The fundraiser may hurt ties between Apple and the San Francisco District representative. Cook has a history of meeting with both Republicans and Democrat lawmakers, but Pelosi suggested he sucks at politics.
“Poor Tim. What a nice guy he is, but somebody gave him bad advice,” she said. “He probably doesn’t think that much about politics.”
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
9 responses to “Nancy Pelosi slams Tim Cook for GOP fundraiser”
Why would Tim Cook support democrats? They want to raise the corporate tax!
Cook has donated to several Democrats’ campaigns.
Thank you.
I’m sure Ms. Pelosi saying that government invents pretty much everything kind of helped.
It also shows that it’s somewhat mythological that big business, owns Washington: rather, big business pay to play the game, which is precisely what Tim Cook is doing.
You can not influence or impact anything unless you are in the arena. Nothing is binary in real life.
Just another instance of Pelosi showing what an idiot she is.
So, Pelosi supports discrimination as long as it benefits her political aspirations?
Pelosi and her conjoined twin, Harry Reid, need to be shown the door
Term limits is beyond over due. she flew over the cocko’s nest and sadly most of the democrats have, but they are all so old and decrepit that they all think she is normal.
I wonder how many people really g.a.f about politics in the country anymore since is so corrupt.