Trump calls for the firing of Lisa Monaco, Microsoft president of global affairs

President Donald Trump connected Friday demanded that Microsoft occurrence Lisa Monaco, an enforcement who served arsenic lawman lawyer wide during the Biden administration.

The petition appeared connected Trump's Truth Social account, which has 10 cardinal followers. It comes 1 time aft erstwhile FBI Director James Comey was indicted, days aft Trump pushed to prosecute him.

"She is simply a menace to U.S. National Security, particularly fixed the large contracts that Microsoft has with the United States Government," Trump wrote successful the post. "Because of Monaco's galore wrongful acts, the U.S. Government precocious stripped her of each Security Clearances, took distant each of her entree to National Security Intelligence, and banned her from each Federal Properties."

Microsoft did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Parts of the U.S. authorities usage Microsoft's unreality infrastructure and productivity software. Earlier this month, Microsoft agreed to offer $3.1 billion successful savings successful 1 twelvemonth connected unreality services for agencies to use.

Earlier connected Friday, Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo published an X post astir Monaco joining Microsoft. The assignment happened successful July, according to Monaco's LinkedIn profile. The station contained a nexus to a July nonfiction connected the University of Chicago instrumentality school's website.

On Thursday, Microsoft said it would cut off cloud-based retention and artificial intelligence subscriptions to a portion of the Israeli military, aft investigating a assertion that the part had built a strategy to way Palestinians' telephone calls.

On Monday, Trump is acceptable to conscionable with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's premier minister, NBC News reported.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella attended a meal alongside different exertion executives astatine the White House earlier this month.