Amazon Prepares to Go to War With Trump Over JEDI Award

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is ready to go to war with Washington to try to overturn a $10 billion government cloud computing contract award, asking the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for authorization to depose President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its attempt to prove Trump intervened in the awarding of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract.

The Pentagon's October award of the JEDI contract to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) raised some eyebrows at the time, as Amazon was considered the front-runner by most analysts. Amazon in November filed suit to try to reverse the award, claiming that Trump's long-standing feud with Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos caused him to get involved and steer the contract to Microsoft.

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