Amazon alleged on Monday that President Donald Trump abused his position to apply “improper pressure” on Pentagon decision-makers to stop the company from winning a military contract worth billions of dollars.
The Pentagon made those errors because of improper interference by Trump, who Amazon said “launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos.”
The president, according to the company,, has long criticized Bezos for his ownership of The Washington Post.
Amazon filed a lawsuit under seal with the court last month to formally protest its loss of the cloud contract. The Pentagon’s JEDI cloud project is designed to consolidate the department’s cloud computing infrastructure and modernize its technology systems.
The contract is worth as much as $10 billion over 10 years and could offer the winner a bigger foothold in the federal cloud market.
The complaint calls for the Defense Department to revisit its decision to award the contract to Microsoft (MSFT).
“The stakes are high,” Amazon said. “The question is whether the President of the United States should be allowed to use the budget of DoD to pursue his own personal and political ends.”
The White House has refused to comment.
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