On Friday, Fox Business – which typically extends the benefit of the doubt to allies of President Donald Trump – aired a segment that asked some blunt questions and made some blunt assertions about one White House official’s potential role in a “conspiracy” that has shocked the world over the past week. According to one frequent Fox contributor, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “has a lot to answer for” if he was involved with schemes to smuggle banned microchips to China.

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[–] 54 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

There's disturbing evidence he fucks children

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  • [–] 12 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    OMG, you mean he's a conservative?!

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  • [–] 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    I think Pizzagate/Qanon was wildly stupid on so many details, but the very premise that it was mostly or all Democrats doing the trafficking was so dumb that it was only bound to get even dumber after that extremely idiotic foundation.

    So the believers thinking that Hillary was operating a pedo ring from the basement of a basementless pizza parlor was just the cherry on top.

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  • [–] 11 points 15 hours ago

    And the truth being revealed to them didn't seem to sway them at all. Many of them still continue to bring it up as if it's true. I have gotten to the point where if a conservative says anything at all on any topic, I just disbelieve them out of hand, no matter how mundane the statement.

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  • [–] 51 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    I love how they use words like "pondering" when they know the White House is full of corruption but Murdoch is a good friend and frequent island visitor with Trump so they can't publish the truth.

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

    I don’t know much about Lutnick but there must be little doubt he adopted the side of villainy since probably 7 or 8 years old when kids must’ve started calling him Nutlick.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    Decades of child rape? Whatever.
    Gave a Manchu a GPU? You'll burn for this.

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  • [–] 12 points 19 hours ago

    “Was there a conspiracy to flout the chip export laws?” wondered Fox Business host Stuart Varney. “Was Lutnick involved?”

    “First of all, we know that Jeffrey Kessler, Under Secretary of Commerce, killed a Commerce Department investigation into Nvidia’s disturbing relationship with Megaspeed, the company of which Alice Huang, the suspected spy, was an executive,” Chang explained. “Also, we know that Commerce was issuing export permits for chip sales to companies that were obviously fronts. So I think that the Commerce Secretary has a lot to answer for when he goes to Congress, because people should be asking him about that: why would they kill that investigation?”

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  • [–] 12 points 19 hours ago

    No shit, me! -- Sherlock Holmes

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  • [–] 11 points 21 hours ago

    the purpose of Fox 'news' is to distract from the grift.

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  • [–] 10 points 20 hours ago

    Lmao, they're wondering when the new york times already did an article saying they killed the investigation last year.

    But the case was abruptly transferred to the Justice Department last year. The shift came after Commerce Department investigators working on the case received an email from Nvidia’s general counsel seeking information about the inquiry into Megaspeed.

    It is not necessarily unusual for Commerce Department agents working on a case to speak with a company’s representatives about issues involving their firm. But what was unusual was the content of the message. Tim Teter, Nvidia’s general counsel, said that Jeff Kessler, a top official at the department, had given Nvidia permission to reach out about the case.

    https://unwall.app/www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/business/economy/nvidia-megaspeed-investigation-huang.html

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  • [–] 27 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

    Excuse my naïveté but isn't Trump the one who put these regulations in place in the first place? Why would he do that, only to conspire with Nvidia to smuggle them out?

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  • [–] 60 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Why would he do that, only to conspire with Nvidia to smuggle them out?

    To make sure nobody else could get in on the grift.

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  • [–] 14 points 19 hours ago

    It sounds like a conspiracy but he's done exactly that before. He fired a Whitehouse teleprompter tech for trading on information he knew before it was public and then the very next day announced that he would be selling early access to his Truth Social posts before everyone else could read it.

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  • [–] 12 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Could be that Trump didn't know. Lutnick worked behind his back. Or Trump knew and didn't care as long as it made him money.

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  • [–] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Unless he was ordered to do it by big d, as an “official act” categorized as legal by SCOTUS.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago

    You people get to learn about US empire abuses by being shocked, SHOCKED!, that corruption is going on, and everything is theater. Getting rid of Lutnik is a great first step, but this is pure Trump. The bullying of everyone other than Russia and China isn't so much Trump being their secret agent, but buying permission for other bullying.

    Nvidia, Lutnik, Trump knew all along that a lot of Nvidia chips get used in datacenters with Chinese access, and pure corruption of everything you hold holy is indeed the conspiracy. Some of these are legal in US. This can/should be used to bring down Trump. ASML/Netherlands should declare all sanctions are BS. But core dementia that all US future wars are normal, is the logic behind attacking Trump gang on this.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Murikkkans, lolololololololololololol!

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago*

    If true, it was probably more through stupidity than malice.

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  • [–] -2 points 21 hours ago* (2 children)

    They're not really microchips... The chips data centers use are huge.

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