Amazon’s complaint further links decisions made by evaluators with months of continued political pressure applied by President Trump, which the company hadalluded to in previous filings. The company pointed to dozens of tweets and comments by the president and his son, Donald Trump Jr., as evidence of Trump’s dislike of Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO and Washington Post owner. According to the complaint, Amazon says the Defense Department’s “substantial and pervasive errors are hard to understand and impossible to assess” unless the president’s repeated anti-Amazon remarks are considered.

“These errors, however, were not merely the result of arbitrary and capricious decision-making. They were the result of improper pressure from President Donald J. Trump, who launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos,” the complaint states. “The stakes are high. The question is whether the President of the United States should be allowed to use the budget of [the Defense Department] to pursue his own personal and political ends.”

The complaint also raises questions about Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s involvement in JEDI. At Trump’s behest, Esper ordered a review of JEDI in August following public comments Trump made in July saying he wanted to “look into” JEDI.