Amazon claims Trump was motivated by his dislike of Jeff Bezos and influenced by Oracle CEO Safra Catz to 'screw' the company out of the $10 billion JEDI contract
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In a federal court filing Monday related to Amazon's legal challenge to the DoD's decision to award the contract to Microsoft, Amazon said Trump's public criticism of the Amazon bid was "emboldened by allies who were Amazon's competitors," including by Oracle. In a court filing on Monday, Amazon said it didn't win the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract because President Trump disliked its CEO Jeff Bezos, and claims that Oracle exploited and inflamed that animosity with a sustained campaign of anti-Amazon attacks.
Amazon specifically cited Oracle's Catz, who was a member of the Trump presidential transition team. The company saidin 2018 in which Catz "advocated against awarding" the JEDI contract to Amazon.
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