Left-leaning journalist Kara Swisher criticized President Trump’s response to former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s scandal involving an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy, saying the president is downplaying the seriousness of the allegations. “He has to say nothing’s going on here … because if there were, he’s in real trouble,” Swisher told CNN’s Kaitlan…
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Left-leaning journalist Kara Swisher criticized President Trump’s response to former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s scandal involving an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy, saying the president is downplaying the seriousness of the allegations.
“He has to say nothing’s going on here … because if there were, he’s in real trouble,” Swisher told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in a Thursday interview. “This is serious national security issues, and to pretend that it’s not a big deal is kind of ridiculous. It’s gaslighting, you know, which is what he does all the time whenever something happens.”
Huang resigned as CEO of the chipmaker and tech giant Thursday after reports that he had multiple extramarital affairs, including with a woman named Alice Huang, whom the U. S. government suspected of being a spy for the Chinese government.
Trump has mostly stood by Jensen Huang, calling him an “honorable man” and saying the situation was “sad,” though he said in an interview Thursday that if the woman is indeed a spy for China, then Jensen Huang was right to resign.
The New York Times reported Thursday that Trump called Huang and told him to fight for his job.
The Times previously reported that Trump was told twice about Huang’s relationship with the woman and her suspected connections to China but did not appear to do anything with the information. Two months after the first time he was notified, he reversed course and allowed Nvidia to sell its highly advanced chips to China.
Now, members of both parties are calling for an investigation.
Multiple House Republicans have said they want Jensen Huang to brief them behind closed doors on his relationship with the woman and potential security concerns, while some Democrats want to look into what Trump knew and what he did about it.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) have called on Congress to pass their bill restricting Chinese access to advanced chips like Nvidia’s.
Swisher told Collins that there needed to be an investigation in Congress and that she did not trust the administration to look into the matter given Trump’s involvement.
Trump is “trying to throw doubt in a situation that requires real investigative work, which I don’t expect from either Todd Blanche or Kash Patel,” Swisher said, referring to the attorney general and FBI director, respectively. “It’s up to Congress to really look at this. And it looks like the Republican senators are at least taking national security issues seriously.”
Even if Republicans do not agree to look into it in the next few weeks, Democrats’ big midterm wins put them in comfortable majorities in both chambers starting in January, when they will control investigations and have subpoena power.
The incoming chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), has already said he wants to pursue investigations of Trump and his allies. The White House vowed to respond aggressively.
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