The company Apple has informed two congressmen of the Democratic opposition, their advisers and relatives, that it was giving the Department of Justice information about their phone calls and online activities for two years, in compliance with a secret order issued by the Department of Justice. Justice during the presidency of Donald Trump. The targets of the US government were representatives Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Eric Schwabel.
Both played key roles in the investigations into Donald Trump that culminated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into ties between the president's campaign and Russia, and in his pressure on the president of Ukraine to attack the opposition candidate and then Trump's successor, Joe Biden. Schiff in particular drew the ire of Trump on multiple occasions.. The president tried to ridicule him for his physical appearance (according to Trump, Schiff has too thin a neck “and can't find custom shirts”) and, directly insulted him, by making puns on Twitter between 'Schiff', the name of the congressman, and 'shit' ('shit' in English).
Paradoxically, it has not been the Department of Justice that has reported these activities, but Apple, once the Government of Joe Biden has decided not to renew the order to spy on congressmen. However, the Department of Justice has announced today that it will open an investigation.
Officially, the reason for monitoring the phones of Schiff and Schwabel, as well as their collaborators and relatives, was to pursue the constant leaks about the relations of the Trump White House with Russia, and his pressures on Ukraine..
In practice, the magnitude of the operation questions that version, especially since Justice Department prosecutors had not detected any suspicious activity on the part of the twelve people whose activity was monitored for two years.. The shadow of political motivation, therefore, hangs over the entire case, even more so after it has been revealed that Trump's Justice Department also spied on journalists from the 'New York Times' and 'Washington Post' newspapers.. In the end, it will turn out that the 'Deep State' – the supposed 'mafia' of anti-Trump Democrats and Republicans that controls the US secret and security services – was Trump.