As the US Presidential campaign for Hillary Clinton continues to reel from daily deluge of emails released from Campaign Chairman John Podesta via Wikileaks, we’re finding a number of topics related to Apple and specifically its CEO Tim Cook.
Today’s installment is probably worth noting. It has Cook listed as a possible VP candidate pick by Podesta along with many other political, business and tech luminaries seen below.
The list is a ‘first cut’ and it is unclear at this point how far through the process Cook made it, or more importantly if he’d even want the job, for that matter. Cook fundraised for Hillary Clinton last month but is also working with Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
In other Podesta emails, Clinton campaign questioned Cook’s political acumen and also waded into the FBI Encryption debate.
Ultimately, Clinton tapped Virginia US Senator Tim Kaine for the job, a vanilla pick if you will, but don’t rule out Cook for any future roles in the White House just yet. Back in July, the New York Times reported that if elected, Clinton could recruit the Apple CEO to serve as the first openly gay cabinet secretary (without specifying which specific role).
Emails are boring pic.twitter.com/KeE3fLVKTM
— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) October 12, 2016
Mildly interesting: Hillary campaign calls Tim Cook a Newb at politics https://t.co/4S0pWZLXdp
— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) October 13, 2016
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: hdr29@hrcoffice.com
Date: 2016-03-17 17:21
Subject:
Ok, I can breathe again! Congrats on a fabulous night.
I am feeling like it’s possible to get back to the longer term again.
Cheryl and I met with Jim Hamilton on Friday to discuss lawyers who can
help do the research and vetting that I outlined in the VP vet memo we
discussed. We also met with Marc Elias to get his input on firms that have
already provided substantial volunteer lawyer assistance and to get
prepared to execute non-disclosure agreements with anyone we involve in the
process.
We put together the attached notional teams of “report writers” (confidential
profiles/public record vet) and “vettors” (deep-dive/oppo-book), and want
to run it by you before we execute on the list. Let me know if there are
people you would like to see added or removed before we begin the process.
Cheryl, Robby, Jake, Huma, Jennifer and I also did a first cut of people to
consider for VP. I have organized names in rough food groups.
Javier Becerra
Julian Castro
Eric Garcetti
Tom Perez
Ken Salazar
Tammy Baldwin
Kirsten Gillibrand
Amy Klobuchar
Claire McKaskill
Jeanne Shaheen
Debbie Stabenow
Elizabeth Warren
Michael Bennet
Sherrod Brown
Martin Heinreich
Tim Kaine
Terry McAuliffe
Chris Murphy
Tom Vilsack
Steve Benjamin
Corey Booker
Andrew Gillum
Eric Holder
Deval Patrick
Kasim Reed
Anthony Foxx
John Allen
Bill McCraven
Mike Mullen
Mary Barra
Michael Bloomberg
Ursula Burns
Tim Cook
Bill Gates
Melinda Gates
Muhtar Kent
Judith Rodin
Howard Schultz
Bernie Sanders
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