Swordsmyth
07-18-2019, 05:01 PM
President Donald Trump is considering stepping in to eliminate Amazon’s looming $10 billion contract with the Pentagon for cloud computing, Bloomberg News reports. “President Donald Trump recently demanded more information about how the Pentagon crafted a massive cloud-computing contract it’s poised to award to Amazon.com Inc. or Microsoft Corp., in order to decide whether he should intervene,” Bloomberg reported (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-17/trump-expressed-concerns-about-pentagon-cloud-computing-contract) late Wednesday. The story continued:
The Defense Department is set to give the contract, worth as much as $10 billion over ten years, to one of the two companies next month. Amazon, whose cloud-computing technology leads the market, is seen as the favorite. But Trump recently was made aware of letters Republican members of Congress have written to the White House and military leaders complaining that the contract’s terms froze some companies — including Oracle Corp. — out of the competition, according to two people familiar with the matter. Trump expressed frustration he wasn’t aware of the concerns and asked aides to show him the correspondence, the people said.
On Thursday, President Trump’s son Donald Trump, Jr., tweeted about the contract, too, ripping it as “No Bid Bezos” and as “shady and potentially corrupt practices” by Amazon:
Well, well, well… Looks like the shady and potentially corrupt practices from @amazon (https://twitter.com/amazon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and No Bid Bezos may come back to bite them.
Draining the Pentagon procurement swamp and putting an end to the rampant cronyism should be a non-partisan issue! https://t.co/4nebhlPkiL
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 18, 2019 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1151905489472630785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Other allies of the president like Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk also weighed in Thursday:
Amazon pays 0% in corporate tax yet they’re spending millions on lobbyists to secure one of the largest taxpayer funded government contracts ever
This is crony capitalism at its worst
No American should be okay with it
RT if you support @realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) cancelling this handout pic.twitter.com/LWHiptIpz7 (https://t.co/LWHiptIpz7)
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 18, 2019 (https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1151890827297226764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Trump himself on Thursday criticized Amazon in comments to reporters, saying that he may investigate the contract:
Via pool, Trump told reporters that “great companies” like Microsoft and Oracle are complaining about the Pentagon’s cloud contract potentially being awarded to Amazon and that he may investigate.
This isn’t the first time this has come up: https://t.co/5jzsBdp5e0 pic.twitter.com/iIEWv7KxMz (https://t.co/iIEWv7KxMz)
— Brian Fung (@b_fung) July 18, 2019 (https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1151915934958964736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
“I’m getting tremendous complaints about the contract with the Pentagon and with Amazon, they’re saying it was not competitively bid, this is going on for a long time, I guess probably before this administration, and we’re looking at it very seriously, it’s a very big contract, one of the biggest ever given, having to do with the cloud, and having to do with a lot of other things, and we’re getting tremendous, really, complaints from other companies and from great companies, some of the greatest companies in the world are complaining about it, having to do with Amazon and the Department of Defense, and I will be asking them to look at it very closely to see what’s going on, because I have had very few things where there has been such complaining,” Trump said on Thursday. “Not only complaining from the media or at least asking questions about it from the media but complaining from different companies like Microsoft, and oracle and IBM, great companies are complaining about it, so we’ll take a very strong look at it.”
More at: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/18/report-trump-mulls-eliminating-amazons-10-billion-pentagon-contract/
The Defense Department is set to give the contract, worth as much as $10 billion over ten years, to one of the two companies next month. Amazon, whose cloud-computing technology leads the market, is seen as the favorite. But Trump recently was made aware of letters Republican members of Congress have written to the White House and military leaders complaining that the contract’s terms froze some companies — including Oracle Corp. — out of the competition, according to two people familiar with the matter. Trump expressed frustration he wasn’t aware of the concerns and asked aides to show him the correspondence, the people said.
On Thursday, President Trump’s son Donald Trump, Jr., tweeted about the contract, too, ripping it as “No Bid Bezos” and as “shady and potentially corrupt practices” by Amazon:
Well, well, well… Looks like the shady and potentially corrupt practices from @amazon (https://twitter.com/amazon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and No Bid Bezos may come back to bite them.
Draining the Pentagon procurement swamp and putting an end to the rampant cronyism should be a non-partisan issue! https://t.co/4nebhlPkiL
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 18, 2019 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1151905489472630785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Other allies of the president like Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk also weighed in Thursday:
Amazon pays 0% in corporate tax yet they’re spending millions on lobbyists to secure one of the largest taxpayer funded government contracts ever
This is crony capitalism at its worst
No American should be okay with it
RT if you support @realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) cancelling this handout pic.twitter.com/LWHiptIpz7 (https://t.co/LWHiptIpz7)
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 18, 2019 (https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1151890827297226764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Trump himself on Thursday criticized Amazon in comments to reporters, saying that he may investigate the contract:
Via pool, Trump told reporters that “great companies” like Microsoft and Oracle are complaining about the Pentagon’s cloud contract potentially being awarded to Amazon and that he may investigate.
This isn’t the first time this has come up: https://t.co/5jzsBdp5e0 pic.twitter.com/iIEWv7KxMz (https://t.co/iIEWv7KxMz)
— Brian Fung (@b_fung) July 18, 2019 (https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1151915934958964736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
“I’m getting tremendous complaints about the contract with the Pentagon and with Amazon, they’re saying it was not competitively bid, this is going on for a long time, I guess probably before this administration, and we’re looking at it very seriously, it’s a very big contract, one of the biggest ever given, having to do with the cloud, and having to do with a lot of other things, and we’re getting tremendous, really, complaints from other companies and from great companies, some of the greatest companies in the world are complaining about it, having to do with Amazon and the Department of Defense, and I will be asking them to look at it very closely to see what’s going on, because I have had very few things where there has been such complaining,” Trump said on Thursday. “Not only complaining from the media or at least asking questions about it from the media but complaining from different companies like Microsoft, and oracle and IBM, great companies are complaining about it, so we’ll take a very strong look at it.”
More at: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/18/report-trump-mulls-eliminating-amazons-10-billion-pentagon-contract/