President Donald Trump said that he spoke Monday with Jensen Huang — the Nvidia CEO who has admitted having an extramarital affair with a woman reported to be a Chinese intelligence operative — and Huang denied knowing the woman was a spy.
Trump said he only recently learned of the intelligence questions surrounding Huang, and claimed he wasn’t aware of the concerns when he brought Huang with him on a state visit to Beijing last spring.
In their conversation, Trump said Huang denied any knowledge that the woman he has admitted having an extramarital affair with was working as a Chinese 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. “’How you doing?’ And I asked him about that, and 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?’ Said, ‘I had no idea that she was a spy,’ and I really believe him.”
Trump said he began learning about the situation “not too long ago,” and said the FBI was looking into the matter. Nvidia has also said it will investigate reports Huang was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.”
“I think that he’ll be in good shape,” Trump said.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
