Amazon has alleged Trump launched “behind-the-scenes attacks” against the company, which caused it to lose out on the cloud contract.
A judge ordered Thursday a temporary block on the JEDI cloud contract in response to a suit filed by Amazon.
Amazon has been protesting the move, saying that it was driven in part by President Trump’s bias against the company. Trump often criticizes Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, claiming the newspaper unfairly covers his administration. Court documents filed last December laid out in greater detail why Amazon Web Services is challenging the decision. In them, Amazon Web Services alleged Trump launched “behind-the-scenes attacks” against the company, which caused it to lose out on the cloud contract. AWS has called for the Defense Department to terminate the award and conduct another review of the submitted proposals.
Amazon’s top spokesperson Jay Carney told CNBC on Wednesday that the company is protesting the decision to make sure the award process was “free of political interference.”
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