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Apart from being the truth or not, this smells of propaganda to strongly motivate to produce everything within the US, as Trumpie so much would like things to be.
Being an European, I wouldn’t be too happy with a phone totally made / assembled in the US instead of the PRC.

The FBI ever having told Apple to deny all claims would be utterly idiotic, as it would be in the bureau’s interest to make bold statements against China if such fraud would have taken place. Why on earth would they not want to admit and exploit such a happening in their stance against China?
 
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