Michael Hiltzik: Amazon is right to say Trump tainted $10-billion Pentagon deal it lost
It's possible that the Pentagon had perfectly sound reasons for rejecting Amazon's bid for a $10-billion high-tech contract and handing it to Microsoft instead.
But it's also crystal clear that, as Amazon claims, we can't know. That's because President Trump openly interfered in the Department of Defense's contracting process, placing the result under a permanent cloud.
"The question is whether the president of the United States should be allowed to use the budget of DoD to pursue his own personal and political ends," Amazon says in its lawsuit over the contract. A
