President Donald Trump said Monday that he called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to check on his well-being after reports linked Huang to Alice Huang, a Chinese woman suspected of spying for Beijing. Trump said the Nvidia chief told him he had no idea she was allegedly an intelligence operative.
“I did speak to him today just to see if he’s feeling all right,” Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room.
“He said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy. I asked him that question: Did you have any idea that she was a spy? He said, ‘I had no idea that she was a spy,’ and I really believe him.”
Jensen Huang has acknowledged an affair with Alice Huang, who is not related to the Nvidia CEO and has been accused of spying for China.
Trump said he was “amazed” by the disclosure while describing Jensen Huang as “a very high quality person.”
The president said the FBI was investigating the matter, but predicted that Huang would emerge from the controversy without serious consequences.
“He’ll look into it. I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he’ll be in good shape,” Trump said.
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