At the moment, the pointy-headed dunces in MAGA world are offering a preposterous version of deflection: this all involves quibbling — over how we should define the word “spy“. And by a “beyond reasonable doubt” standard, or just a “more likely than not” one.
Geez, this all is stooopid, with three two o’s.
It cuts zero legal ice to argue that she wasn’t clearly a spy. That’s a red herring. It is going to come to pass, that we soon know without any doubt that both the CEO, and likely Lutnick and Trump himself knew / know that the billions of dollars in AI chips being sold to MegaSpeed (her company) were being “laundered” to state-affiliated actors (for Xi) in China.
That is the crux of this: the CEO sold illegal/sanctioned tech, knowingly — ignoring US, EU, Japanese and and UN national security laws — and he banked on Trump to protect him — if he stayed in the US, and was ultimately… issued a preznit’s pardon.
The likely price, for this protection from legal consequences/harm? A “pre-bribe”, of at least $25 million — to build the Ballroom. At the moment only that “contribution” has been verified. [But there will certainly be more of them revealed, once the newly-Democratic Congress gets the gavel, in late January 2027.]
For me, one particular comment stands out, at EmptyWheel this morning (where Marcy is doing a bang-up job, of sorting the nonsense from the real story here, BTW!). Here’s that latest excellence — from “RitaRita” a very cogent take, RitaRita said, on November 13, 2026 at 11:11 am:
…Already the Huang-Huang affair is morphing into the larger questions of the Administration’s national security posture with regards to selling, directly or indirectly, advanced chips — to China.
And there is an apparent schism in the Cabinet. Trump and Lutnick are on one side and Bessent and Rubio on the other. (Where is JD Vance?) Blanche and the FBI are trying to keep the lid on.
And David Sachs seems like he is trying to downplay the Chinese angle. The distinction between being a Chinese asset or a spy is largely irrelevant if, either way, the result is that China got advanced chips that it shouldn’t have gotten….
Exactly, Rita! What a dumb bunch of [dis-]organized crime fedoras/minions these jokers all are. Wow. Out.
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