Could This Be the Big One?

     One of the most galling things about this criminal clown show of an administration is whenever a scandal rears its ugly head, it eventually gets its legs cut out from under it. From Pete Hegseth's Signal chats, to Kimberly Guilfoyle's breathtaking corruption in Greece to the Epstein files to Kristi Noem's $220,000,000 self-glorifying ad buy, no scandal seems to have any staying power. This is why Trump has acquired the nickname "Teflon Don".

     And, on the rare occasions when a scandal becomes too big for the administration to ignore, Trump simply fires someone and claims ignorance (and, so far, it's always a woman that gets the axe). Meanwhile, Trump and his progeny are maniacally vacuuming up every red cent in bribes they possibly can while the getting is good. Even news that Trump's financial disclosures showed him making $2.2 billion off the presidency hardly raised a few eyebrows.

     But now, there's a new sheriff in town and it's a large incoming Democratic majority. The crooks running Trump's kakistocracy of a government are on the phone lawyering up like cornered bank robbers in 1931 Kansas. The Nvidia scandal, understandably, is getting attention from Democrats about to take the gavels and, with that, majority rule and subpoena power.

     The problem with that, of course, is Todd Blanche and Trump's personal law firm, formerly known as the Department of Justice. Any criminal referrals Congressional Democrats will make will enter the black hole of Blanche's DOJ and the legs of those scandals and investigations will fall off even more quickly than their predecessors.

 

     But Nvidia is different and was timed perfectly. Former CEO and Denny's dishwasher Jensen Huang has been exposed as a typical hot-pricked executive who'd found himself caught in a honey trap by having an affair with a Chinese spy named Alice Huang. Huang was an executive with Singapore-based data center Megaspeed. On the heels of that, Huang was caught having an affair with yet another woman, Kimberly Powell, who's Nvidia’s vice president of health care.

     Nvidia makes the computer chips that are necessary to AI systems such as ChatGPT. Nvidia has also benefited from massive contracts by an administration that had been skeptical of AI but then was rah rah sis boom bahed by Trump when he realized how many tens of millions he could suck up just in bribes. Nvidia, it should be mentioned, also contributed $25,000,000 to Trump's vanity ballroom.

     Basically, Huang fucked everybody. But that's not what's important. This is about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

     Lutnick, another 1% scumbag traitor and frequent flier to Epstein's pedophile island, was caught dealing with Communist China. At least Huang can plausibly claim ignorance in getting caught in that Chinese spy honey trap. Lutnick willingly did business with China against his boss's wishes. Because, you see, in one of the very few examples of Trump actually doing the right thing, he banned the sale of semiconductors to mainland China. Here's how Lutnick pulled it off:

      On at least three occasions (May, Auguist and the 5th of this month), Trump issued a crackdown on companies of diverting Nvidia chips to Communist China. Lutnick and his stooge, Commerce Undersecretary Jeffrey Kessler, repeatedly sandbagged the implementation of that policy  Lutnick and Huang argued that limited sales of less-advanced chips could keep Chinese firms dependent on U.S. technology rather than accelerating domestic Chinese alternatives. Megaspeed, Alice Huang's former company, reportedly purchased billions in Nvidia chips, which, of course, put piles of money in Jensen Huang's already bulging pockets (he's the 13th richest person on earth, at about $145 billion).

     It's a classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Trump, obviously, is humiliated by Lutnick's treachery and now the long knives are out for him, starting with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who's demanding that Lutnick answer for his actions before a Congressional committee.

     Obviously, you don't sell your best technology to your adversary especially when you're talking about semiconductor chips that facilitate AI, the most powerful technological revolution since computers themselves.

      So, just like that, with a few articles, Lutnick was exposed as being perhaps the most duplicitous and scummiest Cabinet official in a Cabinet filled with psychopaths and scumbags. And this could be the scandal that brings down the entire Trump administration, which would be ironic because, for once, Trump tried to do the right thing.