President Trump called Jensen Huang on Tuesday, urging him to fight to keep his job as chief executive of NVIDIA before he resigns amid an escalating Chinese espionage scandal, according to The New York Times. Trump continued to support Huang despite assessments by the US intelligence community that the Nvidia executive had an affair with Alice Huang, a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. Trump was warned twice (once late last year, and the second time in the spring) by US intelligence agencies that the woman was believed to have been recruited by China's Ministry of State Security, but he took no action. White House advisers say Trump has largely dismissed the potential implications for national security, viewing the storm primarily as a matter of treason rather than espionage.

President Trump called Jensen Huang on Tuesday, urging him to fight to keep his job as chief executive of NVIDIA before he resigns amid an escalating Chinese espionage scandal, according to The New York Times. Trump continued to support Huang despite assessments by the US intelligence community that the Nvidia executive had an affair with Alice Huang, a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. Trump was warned twice (once late last year, and the second time in the spring) by US intelligence agencies that the woman was believed to have been recruited by China's Ministry of State Security, but he took no action. White House advisers say Trump has largely dismissed the potential implications for national security, viewing the storm primarily as a matter of treason rather than espionage.