蘋果因不認同特朗普政見 拒絕支持今年的GOP大會

Apple will not contribute funds or other resources for the Republican National Convention due to presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump's prejudiced remarks, Politico reported last Saturday.

有關政客上週六報道，由於共和黨總統候選人唐納德·特朗普的偏見性言論，蘋果公司將不會向共和黨全國代表大會提供任何的資金或是其他資源援助。

The decision by one of the United States' largest and most popular companies is the biggest corporate defection from the Republican convention.

蘋果公司是美國最大的公司之一，該公司的這個決定是對共和黨代表大會是一個最大的背叛。

"The Apple news raises the bar for other corporations," Rashad Robinson, a spokesman for PAC, said in a statement. The PAC is leading efforts to pressure companies not to participate in this year's GOP gathering.

"蘋果公司的這一決策爲其他公司提供了借鑑經驗，"PAC公司的發言人拉沙德·羅賓遜說道。該公司帶頭向其他公司施壓，阻止它們參加今年的GOP大會。

"Not only has Apple declined to support the Republican National Convention, but they've explicitly told Republican leaders that Trump's bigoted rhetoric is the reason that they're sitting out," Robinson said. "This is what real corporate responsibility looks like."

羅賓遜表示："蘋果公司不止拒絕支持共和黨全國代表大會，還明確告訴共和黨領袖，這一切都是特朗普偏執的言行導致的。這纔是真正的企業職責。"

There is likely little love lost between the tech giant and the presumptive GOP nominee. Trump called for a boycott of Apple in February when the company refused to unlock the iPhone of one of the gunmen in the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California in December.

科技巨頭和共和黨預定候選人間的關係可能沒那麼友好。去年12月在加利福尼亞州聖伯納迪諾市發生了大規模槍擊案件，今年2月，蘋果公司拒絕解鎖該事件持槍歹徒的iPhone。因此，特朗普便呼籲抵制蘋果產品。

An Apple spokesman declined to comment. The Republican National Committee did not immediately responded to a request for comment.

蘋果公司的一位發言人拒絕對此作出評論，共和黨全國委員會也未對評論的請求作出迴應。

Apple did not participate in the two major parties' national conventions in 2012, but several other companies that did are either declining to do so this year or have greatly reduced their contributions.

2012年，蘋果公司並沒有參加兩個主要政黨的全國代表大會。而其他參加了大會的公司要麼就是今年拒絕再次參加，要麼就是大幅度減少了其資助額。

Wells Fargo, United Parcel Service, Motorola, JP Morgan Chase, Ford and Walgreens all contributed to the 2012 GOP convention, and have announced they will not play a role in the convention in Cleveland this July, according to Bloomberg.

據彭博社報道，富國銀行，聯合包裹運輸服務公司，摩托羅拉，摩根大通銀行，福特和沃爾格林機構等均在2012年向GOP大會提供資助。但是今年，它們一致宣佈拒絕爲7月份的克利夫蘭大會提供資助。

Coca-Cola will be donating $75,000 to both parties' conventions, a drop from its $660,000 donation to the Republican convention in 2012.

可口可樂公司將爲兩黨大會資助75000美金。這一數字遠低於其在2012年向共和黨大會的資助額66萬美金。