On Friday, Fox Business – which typically extends the benefit of the doubt to allies of President Donald Trump – aired a segment that asked some blunt questions and made some blunt assertions about one White House official’s potential role in a “conspiracy” that has shocked the world over the past week. According to one frequent Fox contributor, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “has a lot to answer for” if he was involved with schemes to smuggle banned microchips to China.
Excuse my naïveté but isn’t Trump the one who put these regulations in place in the first place? Why would he do that, only to conspire with Nvidia to smuggle them out?
Why would he do that, only to conspire with Nvidia to smuggle them out?
To make sure nobody else could get in on the grift.
I’m not a professional, but I imagine this could accomplish:
- make the admin look “tough on China” to the public eye
- allow for under the table deal -> discrete income directly to Trump/associates’ pockets
Could be that Trump didn’t know. Lutnick worked behind his back. Or Trump knew and didn’t care as long as it made him money.
They started under Biden, apparently.
“We have to beat China” is a bipartisan position among ghoulish politicians.
I love how they use words like “pondering” when they know the White House is full of corruption but Murdoch is a good friend and frequent island visitor with Trump so they can’t publish the truth.
the purpose of Fox ‘news’ is to distract from the grift.
They’re not really microchips… The chips data centers use are huge.
