Amazon says it lost $10 billion contract because Trump wanted to 'screw' the company

Amazon claims it lost out on a $10 billion defense contract because one man hated the company: Donald Trump. 

In the redacted complaint from its previously filed lawsuit, released Monday, Amazon said it lost the coveted JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract because of "improper pressure from President Donald J. Trump, who launched public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos, founder and CEO of AWS' parent company, Amazon.com, Inc. ('Amazon'), and owner of the Washington Post."

The contract to overhaul the Pentagon's cloud computing system was, instead, awarded to Microsoft by the Department of Defense in October. Amazon immediately appealed the decision. Read more...