President Trump said Monday that the FBI is probing the circumstances surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s extramarital affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
“I know the FBI is looking into it,” Mr. Trump said. “And I think he’ll be in good shape.”
The president said he called Mr. Huang on Monday to “see if he’s feeling all right.”
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Mr. Trump’s comments come one day after Nvidia announced an independent investigation into reports that Mr. Huang had been the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.”
The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials determined Mr. Huang developed a close relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese business executive suspected of gathering information for Beijing. The two are not related.
Mr. Huang acknowledged an extramarital affair in a letter to Nvidia employees Sunday but did not identify the woman involved. He pledged to cooperate with the company’s investigations and underscored his commitment to U.S. national security.
Mr. Huang told him “he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy,” Mr. Trump said.
“He said ‘I had no idea that she was a spy,’ … and I really believe him,” said Mr. Trump.
“I was amazed because I view him as a very high-quality person,” Mr. Trump said.
“He’s an amazing guy,” he continued, adding, “I hope there’s no problem.”
Mr. Trump said for the second time in as many days that he wanted Mr. Huang to remain the leader of the second-largest public company in the world.
Mr. Trump’s comments are a sharp contrast to his remarks about former Rep. Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, who also had an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy, Christie Fang, also known as Fang Fang.
In a February 2023 social media post, Mr. Trump mocked the congressman for “falling desperately in love with a Chinese Spy.” Mr. Trump followed that up a year later asking, “Where is his Chinese girlfriend?”
In August, Mr. Trump shared reports alleging that FBI documents showed Mr. Swalwell received illegal campaign donations connected to Ms. Fang.
The former congressman has denied wrongdoing and maintained that he cooperated with federal investigations upon being alerted about Ms. Fang in 2015.
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