Dark Clouds

Amazon is the country's largest provider of cloud computing services with many companies and organizations using their services. So it's no surprise that the Pentagon would entertain a bid from them for $10 billion in cloud computing services.

Until Donald Trump stepped in to quash the deal. His attempt had nothing to do with the quality of their service or their price, which was the lowest of the various providers who bid on the Pentagon contract.

Trump reacted as he did because Amazon is partly owned by the same man who owns the Washington Post, one of the country's pre-eminent media outlets that has repeatedly documented his extensive corruption and staggering incompetence (details here and here).

The bottom line, because of his extremely fragile ego, Trump put self and spite before national security.

If he's able to derail the deal, taxpayers will end up paying more for a potentially inferior contract. And the Washington Post will continue to report on Trump's corruption and incompetence.

Hopefully the House of Representatives will look into this. Because the Senate, which is full of Trump's handmaiden hostages and controlled by the GOP, will do nothing.