Amazon Web Services wants Trump to testify on order ‘to screw Amazon’ in Pentagon deal

Amazon Web Services said on Monday it was seeking to depose President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary Mark Esper in its lawsuit over whether the president was trying “to screw Amazon” when it awarded a Pentagon contract for cloud computing to rival Microsoft Corp.

The Amazon.com Inc unit alleged that Trump, who has publicly derided Amazon head Jeff Bezos and repeatedly criticized the company, exerted undue influence on the decision to deny it the $10 billion contract. Known as the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, the contract is intended to give the military better access to data and technology from remote locations.