Apple Was Told to Quietly Supply Data on Trump’s White House Counsel In 2018 – The company was restricted to tell McGahn about the request. Apple wasn’t just tangled in legal requests targeting the democrat politicians, it seems. According to the New York times, the justice department subpoenaed apple for information concerning the former president of the United States, Donald trump’s White House counsel, Don McGahn, in 2018 February.
It is not clear what the FBI was searching for or if McGahn was the focus, but officials handed out gag orders Apple from notifying the counsel for a while, he was only aware of the request last month. The company didn’t say what it shared with the government or outline the nature of the case. There were various numbers of conceivable issues.
The former president Donald Trump was furious with McGahnn at that time over the Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and January 2018 leak, but the New York Times is uncertain.
Nonetheless, the solicitation may likewise have followed from the Mueller examination itself (McGahnn was the ex-president’s top campaign legal advisor in 2016). Trump’s previous campaign manager, Paul manafort likewise dealt with extortion accusations a day before the subpoena
The news came days after the trump era DOJ has mentioned account information from apple for at least two Democrats officials, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, around a similar time. Questions have swirled who was targeted as well as how, and what have the agents have discovered?
However, it unlikely that Apple could have shared details specific to McGahnn’s case in the short term, years of gag order certainly did not support any attempts to be open about government surveillance demands
