Rubio reportedly set in motion the process that led to Jensen Huang's downfall with a memo that was far more damning than the CIA report it was based on....
According to the Washington Post, the secretary of state took the CIA report on Jensen's relationship with the alleged Chinese spy and rewrote it in his own words, using harsher language. When the findings of the memorandum were leaked to the media, a scandal broke out.
A former official involved in semiconductor policy explained what Trump's national security team was trying to accomplish:
"They wanted to destroy the influence Jensen had on the president."
Trump still calls him a "legend". The intelligence agencies still cannot prove that she was a spy. But now three bills restricting the sale of chips to China are being prepared for inclusion in the defense bill, and the only company executive who previously succeeded in persuading Congress to abandon those restrictions has left Bloomberg.