Amazon boss Jeff Bezos strikes back at Trump claiming he has a ‘personal vendetta’ against him
Amazon has claimed President Trump put pressure on the Pentagon to deny it a valuable contract because he has a ‘personal vendetta’ against Jeff Bezos.
In a lawsuit, the tech giant alleged Trump views its boss Bezos as his ‘political enemy’ and made sure the company did not win the £7.6billion cloud computing contract – despite being the best firm for the job.
Amazon was widely expected to win the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure – or JEDI – contract for cloud computing, which keeps computer data stored remotely.
Amazon alleges Donald Trump views boss Jeff Bezos (pictured) as his ‘political enemy’ and made sure the firm did not win the £7.6bn cloud computing contract
But it was awarded to rival Microsoft in October instead.
Trump has repeatedly launched attacks on 55-year-old Bezos, who is the richest person in the world.
The entrepreneur also owns the Washington Post, a newspaper – which Bezos bought in 2013 – that has researched and criticised the President and his team since he won the 2016 election.
A spokesman for the US Department of Defence said: ‘There were no external influences on the source selection decision.’