Apple has decided not to provide money or tech support for the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio in July where controversial businessman Donald Trump will be named the party's official candidate for President of the United States of America.

Apple joined other business giants such as Coca-Cola and Hewlett Packard that have either refused to provide money or tech support for anything having to do with Trump or are scaling back their support for the candidate.

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Reports said Apple has told Republican leaders it won't provide financial and tech support for the party's convention. Apparently, Apple is taking issue with Trump's incendiary and oft repeated statements condemning women, minorities and immigrants, including Muslims.

One other reason is Trump has continually attacked Apple for outsourcing its production to China. Without saying how, Trump claims he will force Apple to "build their damn computers and things in this country."

Trump also assailed Apple for refusing to assist the FBI open the password-protected iPhone of the two San Bernardino ISIS-inspired shooters that murdered 14 persons in December 2015.  Embarrassingly, Trump used an iPhone to tweet his call for a total boycott of Apple devices because of this incident.

Apple previously donated money or technology to past Republican presidential conventions. In 2008, Apple provided $140,000 in technology devices to both the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions.

Not all tech giants plan to boycott the Republican convention, however. Google said it would hold an exhibit during the convention despite a protest by liberal groups and civil rights activists.

Microsoft plans to donate computers and software to the GOP convention while Facebook promised financial and other support for the event.

It's unknown if Apple will donate to the Democratic convention also being held in July but in Philadelphia. Hillary Clinton will be formally nominated as the Democratic Party's candidate for President.

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