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National Security & Defense

Midnightwalk

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1. Unclear why

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Aug 1, 2019, 06:28 PM

Aug 2019

The pentagon is known for contracts that overrun and under deliver.

On the other hand, as the article says, Amazon was founded by Bezos who owns the Washington Post.

I don’t have any insight into whether it is unusual for a president to get involved in this type of review. Doing an extra review would ingratiate one with this president.

The simplest rule is never trust a trump.

At a minimum he couldn’t keep his mouth shut.

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