Obama revolving door: Apple's top lobbyist to State department. Catherine Ann Novelli spent 8 years as VP of world-wide government affairs at Apple, and then three as Under-Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment.[1]

Apple-NSA collaboration with PRISM. [2]

USDS & 18F involvement: [3][4]

Secret collaboration on tax burden reduction. (It's a longer word for 'lobbying'. If you think it's not secret, please share with me the minutes from those meetings. If you think it's not collaborative, why do these meetings always result in tax burden reductions for the lobbyists?) [5][6]

2 million dollars in direct campaign contributions, in 2018. It seems that to do business, you need to grease a few palms, eh? [7]

You cannot operate a multi-billion dollar company in the US, and not have close ties with the US government.

Not to mention the large number of congressmen, senators, and government advisers who, among their tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, have large financial stakes in Apple.

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-revolving-door-appl...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/apple-nsa/

[3] https://www.fedscoop.com/civic-leave-white-house-technology-...

[4] https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/20/one-year-in-and-looking-forwa...

[5] https://www.macobserver.com/news/in-2018-apple-spent-6-6-mil...

[6] https://www.fastcompany.com/40502636/big-techs-lobbying-splu...

[7] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000021754