JGalt
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Thank you!The money was planned to return before and was unconditional on planned return despite the tax bill.
Tim Cook announced in September 2016 that Apple planned to repatriate some measure of its $200B+ held overseas. The man wasn't even a Trump supporter and at the time; in fact, he supported Clinton. Moreover, in September 2016, "everyone" thought Clinton would win the election, including Cook. Clinton, AFAIK, never promised any great repatriation reprieves or discounts or whatever; thus there's no rational basis for asserting any Apple cash repatriation is attributable to anything having to do with Trump. Furthermore, unless and until Apple does repatriate the money, something it is not required to do and that it can at the "drop of a hat" opt not to do, it's premature for unrelated third parties to even remark about the prospect of their doing so, much less count on it happening.
Tim Cook choosing when he does it, assuming he even does do it, is not indicative of any sort of Trump effect; it's a mark of Cook's prudence, which is all Cook's and has nothing to do with Trump.That might have announced it but obviously they waited until the time was right. Smart move.
Keep telling yourselves that. You fatally underestimated Trump when he was campaigning and you're still frantically trying to minimize the effect he's having on not only America's economy, but the global economy.
That's called "denial".