Did Tim Cook finagle a special tariff deal? Senator Warren wants to know

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent Apple CEO Tim Cook a missive asking for accusation regarding Cook and Apple’s conversations with President Donald Trump’s medication astir tariffs and immoderate peculiar exemptions from the tariffs, Bloomberg reports.

Warren’s letter, obtained by Bloomberg, points retired that Apple “appeared to person invested heavy successful influencing the Trump Administration” done things similar Cook’s $1 cardinal donation to Trump’s inauguration and Cook’s beingness at the inauguration. It discusses The Washington Post’s recent report astir Cook’s discussions with White House officials, including a reported speech with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick astir however tariffs could interaction the terms of iPhones.

It besides notes Trump’s tariff exemptions for smartphones and different electronics and quotes WaPo saying that “Apple appears to beryllium the lone institution that benefits from virtually each of [them].”

Warren’s missive concludes with a database of questions for Apple, which includes inquiries connected things similar the quality of Cook’s discussions with the Trump administration, erstwhile Apple learned astir the exemptions, and asking astir the “the worth of the further profits that Apple volition get arsenic a effect of President Trump’s tariff exemption.” 

The missive does not see a deadline for Cook to respond. Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for remark from The Verge.