“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,” Amazon wrote in its lawsuit
of derailing its potential deal with the Department of Defense, directing the lucrative contract to Microsoft instead. In a
released Monday, the company alleged that the president orchestrated “behind-the-scenes attacks” on Amazon Web Services and CEOand called for the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract the government awarded to Microsoft to be reviewed. “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 company argued in the filing. “DoD’s substantial and pervasive errors are hard to understand and impossible to assess separate and apart from the President’s repeatedly expressed determination to, in the words of the President himself, ‘screw Amazon.
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