Trump’s Bonkers Reaction to Tech Lord’s Chinese Spy Lover Is Leaked

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Donald Trump greeted a man dating a suspected Chinese spy by welcoming him on board Air Force One. Trump was on his way to Beijing, China, in May when Nvidia chief executive…

Donald Trump greeted a man dating a suspected Chinese spy by welcoming him on board Air Force One.

Trump was on his way to Beijing, China, in May when Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang came aboard, despite sources claiming that Trump had already been informed that Huang was having an extramarital affair with an agent from Beijing.

On Monday, Trump said he hadn’t known about the allegations at the time, but sources have since told CNN and The New York Times that Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed the president before Huang joined the journey in Alaska, during a layover on the final leg.

Nvidia’s stock plummeted after Huang admitted he had been “unfaithful” to his wife and had had an affair with a Chinese businesswoman called Alice Huang. In a letter to company staff, he said that it “is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.”

U.S. intelligence had concluded that Alice Huang had been in contact with China’s Ministry of State Security. But when the press challenged Trump on it, he said, “No, I didn’t hear about it then.” He also claimed he heard about it “not too long ago.”

Trump was en route to a summit with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping when the incident occurred.

China has said that the allegations about Alice Huang are “groundless.”

“Jaw-dropping,” a former senior Trump official told CNN when discussing the incident. “The stakes of that are just so high.”

Huang is the well-liked figurehead of the $4.5 trillion technology giant Nvidia, which he co-founded and has led for 30 years. The advanced chips he has helped to develop have become central to the U.S. and China’s heated technology war.

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