Amazon’s lawsuit over a $10 billion Pentagon contract lays out disturbing allegations against Trump: Tech
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Amazon’s lawsuit over a $10 billion Pentagon contract lays out disturbing allegations against Trump: “This is an entirely new and astonishing situation,” Charles Tiefer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore who has been teaching government procurement law for 25 years, said. “No one has ever seen a president vocally attack one of the bidders in a procurement. So no one has ever seen anything remotely like the bidder attacked by the president — losing.”
Tiefer is referring to the situation that spawned the sensational lawsuit Amazon filed last November, challenging the Pentagon’s awarding of the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft. It alleges that President Donald Trump’s oft-expressed, seething animus for Amazon and Jeff Bezos, its founder and CEO, caused Pentagon officials, “consciously or subconsciously,” to award the contract to Microsoft.
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