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Wondering if anyone in these comments actually read the post. They are making a legitimate point about an unfair public procurement process that the president
by ciarannolan 6y ago
Wondering if anyone in these comments actually read the post.
They are making a legitimate point about an unfair public procurement process that the president interfered in for personal reasons.
> There is a recurring pattern to the way President Trump behaves when he’s called out for doing something egregious: first he denies doing it, then he looks for ways to push it off to the side, to distract attention from it and delay efforts to investigate it (so people get bored and forget about it). And then he ends up doubling down on the egregious act anyway. On JEDI, President Trump reportedly ordered former Secretary Mattis to “screw’” Amazon, blatantly interfered in an active procurement, directed his subordinate to conduct an unorthodox “review” prior to a contract award announcement and then stonewalled an investigation into his own political interference. “Corrective action” was used as a way to halt our litigation, delay further investigations and incorrectly give the appearance that only one issue needed to be fixed while giving the impression that the DoD was actually going to fix something. While corrective action can be used to efficiently resolve protests, in reality, this corrective action changed nothing, wasted five months that could have been spent getting to the bottom of these serious concerns, and was designed solely to distract from our broader concerns and reaffirm a decision that was corrupted by the President’s self-interest
- zamalek 6y agoIf they don't like the president, they can stop contributing to his party at any point.
- busterarm 6y agoFirst, these are accusations. Second, Amazon influenced the procurement process themselves by being involved in the process that set the criteria -- structuring it in a way that only they should be awarded the contract.
- paganel 6y agoThird, the Amazon main shareholder and acting CEO also owns a newspaper that’s actively involved in fighting Trump.
- zaptrem 6y agoWaPo doesn't interfere in contract awards or break the law. Trump's many crimes and some mean words is a false equivalency.
- paganel 6y agoAs a member of the free and impartial press it should at least try to be impartial, no democracy can survive with non-impartial press, best-case scenario it all turns into a fight among the oligarchy members (as it’s happening right now).
- acruns 6y agoI didn't read it, and won't. Amazon got out played by msft. Bezos is an amateur compared to the likes of the DOD team at msft, buying a mansion in DC to host parties, come on Bezos, such an amateur move. Getting into a public pissing match with the POTUS, stupid. Crying foul for months and months and then writing a story about your slippery slope theory, amateur, and locks you out of more cloud business with .gov. I have personally been through this process, albeit not a $10B contract but very very large, and it comes down to relationships. Jeff should be doing everything he can to steal away that msft sales team that came in and made them look like fools so they can win the next bid. He isn't playing against Barnes and Nobles, this is a corporation that will spend tens of millions developing a competing product and give it away for free for years to bankrupt it's competitors, they don't play fair.
- paganel 6y agoYou’re being downvoted for no good reason, fact is MS has a long history of winning government contracts using all available means, Amazon looks to me like the nerd who got into a street fight with only his glasses on, no gloves, no knives, no anything.
- ogn3rd 6y agoExcept that's not what happened.