Amazon blames Trump ‘pressure’ for losing $10B Pentagon cloud contract to Microsoft

[Elderberry]

American Military News by Laura Widener 12/9/2019

Amazon blamed President Trump and his “improper pressure” for influencing the Pentagon to avoid signing a huge cloud computing contract with Amazon, instead signing with Microsoft.

Amazon waged the complaint with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims – which was released to the public on Monday — alleging that Amazon was favored to win the 10-year, $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) until Trump “launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks,” The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The complaint argues that Trump’s intention was “to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos.”

Trump previously blamed Bezos – the owner of The Washington Post – for negative coverage of his administration, although the Post has denied editorial influence.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/12/amazon-blames-trump-for-losing-10b-pentagon-contract-to-microsoft/

[Applewood]

Wouldn't be surprised of Amazon's accusations are true.  Trump does have hatred for Bezos, Amazon and Bezos' other business, WaPo. 

But I'll wait to see how this shakes out.

[PeteS in CA]

I think it very likely that Amazon's disregard for security and disrespect for its customers demonstrated by Alexa may have influenced the decision. And this complaint is just more anti-Trump lawfare by Progs.

Alexa's security flaws are a known fact. Where is there evidence that Trump played any part in the contract award to MS (as if MS' manglers are conservatives, )?