Democrats on Thursday opened an inquiry into how the Trump administration handled Nvidia’s chip sales to China. Earlier on Thursday, the company ousted its CEO Jensen Huang. He also agreed to testify to a different set of Republican-led Congressional committees.

Huang was removed from the company he founded after he confessed to an extramarital affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese spy. (He has since been accused of having more affairs, with Nvidia employees.)

The alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, was an executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that U.S. officials suspect of helping route advanced Nvidia chips into China. The Democratic inquiry comes from Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. As the minority party, they can ask questions but can’t compel answers.

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[–] 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The scheme to make billions smuggling military equipment banned for export to hostile countries?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 hours ago

    Yes, sadly. The presidential power of clemency is absurdly broad and really needs to be reined in. The president can pardon any federal crime other than impeachments. Unfortunately, that will take a Constitutional amendment which seems very unlikely to happen any time soon.

    The only hope to see any justice for some people is if they are charged with state crimes. That would also probably need to be in a blue state too since some state governors also have a pardon power for crimes in their states and I imagine Republican governors might be inclined to pardon such people to gain political points within their party.

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  • [–] 27 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    scathing letter

    giving them the ol' Democrat special

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  • [–] 20 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    The alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, was an executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that U.S. officials suspect of helping route advanced Nvidia chips into China. The Democratic inquiry comes from Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. As the minority party, they can ask questions but can’t compel answers.

    In two months they can make him answer, for now they can just ask and write the letter...

    Like, what would you rather they do, that they can actually do?

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