Jensen Huang Is a White House Scandal

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What did Trump know and when about the Nvidia CEO’s relationship with an accused Chinese spy? | World News

First, see the Jensen Huang scandal for what it is. It is potentially Teapot Dome-size, Watergate-size. Second, it is important it not be misunderstood as a merely personal story, a private matter. It isn’t a buzzy tale about a leather-jacketed titan who made a romantic misstep.

It is a story about our national security, and it carries implications in all aspects of U.S. defense and cybersecurity. It is a story about an administration’s failure to take responsibility and stop harm, for reasons that are mysterious. And of course it is about a successful top-level espionage operation carried out against America by its foremost world challenger, China.

You know the essence. The New York Times reported in October that intelligence agencies told President Trump that Jensen Huang—pioneering founder and head of Nvidia, ally, booster and donor to the president—was credibly believed to be in a romantic relationship with a woman who was a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security.

“The message” of the relationship “was delivered by Marco Rubio,” said the Times, shortly before Mr. Huang joined the president, on his personal invitation, to attend the May U.S.-China summit in Beijing. The Rubio message marked the second time in seven months that the president had been told of intelligence regarding Mr. Huang’s involvement. The Times further reported that U.S. officials had told the president last year that a Chinese spy was involved with America’s most important tech titan: “When first briefed on the issue last fall, Mr. Trump chose to take no action.”

China has denied that the woman, Alice Huang, is its spy. (She isn’t related to Mr. Huang.)

Assuming she was, in her time with Mr. Huang she would have had access to a great deal—his phone, his thoughts, his plans. She was in a position to persuade him, to plant thought-seeds, to make arguments. Presumably, as in most intimate relationships that have spanned some years, Mr.

That, again, means a lot, because Jensen Huang is an intimate…

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