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(WASHINGTON) — Amazon desires to depose President Donald Trump over the tech firm’s shedding voice for a $10 billion navy contract.
The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing challenge to Microsoft in October. Amazon later sued, arguing that Trump’s interference and bias in opposition to the firm harmed Amazon’s possibilities of winning the contract.
The firm acknowledged in a federal court filing in Washington on Monday that Trump has a “effectively-documented internal most animus in opposition to” Amazon, its CEO Jeff Bezos and The Washington Put up, which Bezos owns. Amazon says that Trump is the one who can testify about the “totality of his conversations and the final message he conveyed” about the bidding course of.
Amazon is moreover asking to depose Protection Secretary Worth Esper, worn Protection Secretary Jim Mattis and deal of government officers in its filing Monday with the U.S. Court docket of Federal Claims.
The White House and the Pentagon didn’t at once return requests for reveal Monday.
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