Donald Trump stands with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang after presenting him with the National Medal of Science, Washington, D.C., October 8, 2026 (Evan Vucci/Reuters)
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In our latest 51-minute That Was The Week That Was (in TrumpLand), Maddie Hale and I talk about Nvidia’s former CEO Jensen Huang, his affair with a Chinese spy, and the Trump camp’s dismissal of the threat to national security; the corruption among Trump and his inner circle; the attempted impeachment of Pete Hegseth; and the talks over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
I set out the story of how Huang was compromised by the affair, with NVidia circumventing US restrictions on the provision of chips to China. I detail how the Trump camp was warned by intelligence agencies of the threat but — thanks to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as well as Trump — did not act.
I put the affair within the wider context of Trump’s decimation of Government regulation and the law, ensuring that he and his family can make billions of dollars from his office.
I explain how Hegseth avoided impeachment on Wednesday night, but how this is only the opening act in a bigger story in January when Democrats take control of the Senate and House.
And I navigate Trump and his envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, over the possibility that they will back the Kremlin rather than the defense of Ukraine.
