Amazon says it lost $10 billion military contract to rival Microsoft because our Trump personally wanted to ‘Screw’ Jeff Bezos.
On Monday, in an unsealed federal court complaint, Amazon wrote that “Pentagon officials reviewed outdated Amazon submissions for the Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) project before granting the contract to competitor Microsoft—whose CEO Satya Nadella is not currently the target of one of Donald Trump’s mostly one-sided feuds. (Trump is reportedly obsessed with “Jeff Bozo” almost exclusively because the billionaire CEO also owns the “fake news” Washington Post, but this is also a man whose list of top grievances includes water-conserving toilets). Amazon’s claims that Trump interrupted in the contract process to hurt Bezos, “his perceived political enemy,” with the Defense Department making “blatant, inexplicable errors” complying with the White House’s directive.
Amazon’s legal team wrote, “The Pentagon “failed to acknowledge the numerous instances in which [Amazon Web Service’s] demonstrated capabilities vastly exceeded performance requirements, while ignoring instances where Microsoft necessarily failed to demonstrate its solution met the technical requirements.”
The Defense Department dismissed that Trump’s hatred of Bezos or any other external factors acted a role in its decision.
