Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and US President Donald Trump (File photo)
” He said, ‘I had no idea that she was a spy. He also said Huang was “suffering greatly,” particularly because of the effect on his family. TOI correspondent in Washington: In Washington, national security issues usually require a healthy dose of suspicion, particularly where China is concerned. But in a remarkable display of trust, US President Donald Trump is repeatedly vouching for Nvidia chief Jensen Huang following disclosures that he may have been ensnared in a Chinese honey-trap. Asked whether Huang knew that the woman he was having an affair with was allegedly a Chinese intelligence operative, Trump recounted asking him directly. And I really believe him.
Speaking at the White House on Monday after revealing he had spoken to Huang, Trump described him as “a great, brilliant person, and we want to protect our brilliant people.
The president’s critics are now zeroing in on his financial disclosures in filings before the Office of Government Ethics that show Trump investment accounts bought between $500,001 and $1 million of Nvidia shares on January 6, 2026, and between $1 million and $5 million on February 10. A September filing disclosed that the account bought as much as $1.6 million and sold as much as $1 million in Nvidia stock during August alone. The filings cover transactions in accounts associated with the president and his family, and the White House has repeatedly explained that independent third-party financial institutions manage the portfolio, replicating recognised indexes, including the Schwab 1000, and investment decisions are made without presidential input.
Because i don’t like them, “I’m not interested in investigating people just. Because i suspect they’ve put our national security at risk, they’ve been breaking the law and lying to the American people,” Coons said amid growing fears that the Huang affair would prick the AI bubble on which much of the U.S stock market currently rests, i want to investigate them.
Democratic Senator Chris Coons, who will become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he wants an investigation into the relationship between the Trump administration, foreign intelligence operatives and AI billionaires, pointing to a broader probe that could soon sweep up tech tycoons. Lawmakers are champing at the bit to investigate an administration they accuse of excessive coziness with powerful technology billionaires, and the Huang affair offers an unusually convenient intersection of national security, corporate influence, China policy — and Trump’s own financial interests. These are not necessarily straightforward purchases made personally by Trump. But given reports of widespread grift and corruption by Trump loyalists, lawmakers are raring to investigate the matter under overarching concerns about China — not that Congress, including Democratic lawmakers, are strangers to charges of insider trading.