Donald Trump calls for boycotting Apple products

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a boycott of Apple in light of the company's reluctance to help authorities hack into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, Business Insider reports.

"Apple ought to give the security for that phone, OK?" Trump said at a rally in Pawley's Island, South Carolina, on Friday.

"What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just thought of it. Boycott Apple!"

Earlier in the day, the Justice Department filed a new motion saying Apple must comply with the government demands.

The FBI wants the tech giant to create software letting law enforcement to access data on a work phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers in the December shooting at a San Bernardino, California, community center.

Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted an open letter on Apple's website calling the demand "chilling" and arguing that it "would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect."

"First of all, the phone's not even owned by this young thug that killed all these people," Trump said, noting that Farook worked for the county government in California. "The phone's owned by the government, OK? Not even his phone — we don't even have to go that far." On Friday night, Trump returned to criticizing Apple at a campaign rally in Charleston, South Carolina.

"Boycott Apple," he told his supporters. "We want the secrets. They don't want to open up the phones. Give me a break! Why wouldn't they want to do it? Why wouldn't they want to do it? They don't want to open up the phone."