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Trump Overstates Role in Apple’s Plans

President Donald Trump claimed that “Apple is investing $350 billion in the United States” over the next five years all because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That’s contradicted by Apple’s chief executive officer, who said that “there’s large parts of this that we would have done in any situation.”

Not all of the money is exactly new spending. Apple would come from continuing its “current

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