President Trump held a White House press briefing earlier today and responded to several questions about his knowledge of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Huang said this weekend that he had been " unfaithful" to his wife, and the company has opened an investigation into Huang. Recent articles from The New […]
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