Scott Jennings Turns on Trump With Blunt Reality Check

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Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Trending Now Jennings broke from his routine to take a swipe at the president over the Jensen Huang spy saga. CNN’s resident MAGA…

CNN’s resident MAGA cheerleader Scott Jennings had a rare change of tune as he mocked President Donald Trump over his handling of the scandal surrounding Nvidia’s ex-CEO Jensen Huang.

Jennings was discussing the implications of Trump’s close relationship with Huang following revelations that the tech billionaire had an affair with a woman believed by U.S. intelligence to be a Chinese spy.

“I did have to chuckle at the president’s comment, though,” Jennings, 49, admitted during a discussion Thursday on CNN’s The Arena with Kasie Hunt.

He was referring to Trump’s claim that Huang told him he had “absolutely no idea” that his mistress had been a spy all along.

“Well, no kidding!” Jennings said, prompting laughter from the other panelists. “They don’t walk up and say, ‘I’m a Chinese spy. Would you like to get dinner?’ I mean, you know, of course you wouldn’t know it was a Chinese spy.”

Jennings, a former George W. Bush administration official and adviser to Sen. Mitch McConnell, said it was a “reminder” that “these people are the enemy.”

“They are our enemy. They are our adversary — economically, geopolitically, militarily,” he said.

Trump and his lieutenants have themselves landed in hot water after it emerged that the president was reportedly warned roughly a year ago that Huang’s mistress, Alice Huang—who is not related to the ex-Nvidia boss—was a Chinese spy, but chose to take no action, and that Alice Huang’s company Megaspeed escaped U.S. sanctions.

But Jennings refused to go so far as to directly call out the president over his failure to act on the warnings about Huang.

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