Trump ordered Defense chief to 'screw Amazon' out of $10B contract, book reportedly says
President Donald Trump ordered former Defense Secretary James Mattis to "screw Amazon" out of the chance to bid on a $10 billion Pentagon contract, a new biography of Mattis says, according to a report this week by military-focused website Task & Purpose.
The cloud computing services contract, for the Defense Department's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), was awarded to Microsoft on Friday. Trump issued his directive to Mattis during a phone call last year, the biography said, according to Task & Purpose, which received an advance copy. CNET hasn't reviewed the biography, Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon With Secretary Mattis, by Guy Snodgrass, a former speechwriter for Mattis.
Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, are favorite targets of Trump, whose attacks are widely seen as stemming from unflattering coverage by the Bezos-owned Washington Post.
According to Task & Purpose, the biography says that during a meeting, Mattis told Snodgrass and others about Trump's order and said, "We're not going to do that. This will be done by the book, both legally and ethically."
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Not a day goes by that something else is exposed ....
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Will remark that this is the single petty ego driven event which led to the "Updating software..." dialog popping up preventing the destruction of the extinction level asteroid speeding toward a collision with Nova Scotia at over 19,000 mph.
The archaeologists will also find some dandy PowerPoint(c) slides on SharePoint(c) describing what the Humans were "'gonna do".
They will dig up many posts on Facebook by Ancient Republican Politicians denying the existence of the so-called asteroid.
