Amazon filed a motion in federal court seeking testimony from President Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper in its lawsuit against the Pentagon over the award of a multibillion dollar cloud computing contract to Microsoft
The tech giant's case rests on the assertion that Trump's public campaign to punish Amazon founder Jeff Bezos corrupted the Pentagon's contracting process for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program, or JEDI.
"The preservation of public confidence in the nation’s procurement process requires discovery and supplementation of the administrative record, particularly in light of President Trump’s order to ‘screw Amazon.’""DoD strongly opposes the request," the Department of Defense said in a statement. "Amazon Web Services' request is unnecessary, burdensome and merely seeks to delay getting this important technology into the hands of our warfighters.
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