The head of the Democratic Party in the Senate and ‘de facto’ leader of the formation, Chuck Schumer, has demanded that the Trump Administration provide a full explanation about the alleged Chinese espionage network linked to the resignation of the former CEO of the technology giant Nvidia, Jensen Huang. The senator also believes that the company’s former top executive must appear before Congress to give his version of the facts.
Huang announced this Thursday that he was stepping down from his position, after several days under intense public pressure over infidelity with a purported Chinese spy and in a context of a sharp drop in Nvidia shares on the stock market.
For Schumer, Huang’s resignation is far from closing the case. “Despite Jensen Huang’s resignation, Congress owes Huang and others at Nvidia a clarification of how they may have put United States national security at risk,” the one who is shaping up to be the next leader of the Democratic majority in the new U.S. Congress said on social media.
The senator also focused on the actions of the Executive branch. “The Trump administration must also be held accountable for what it did once it learned of Huang’s relationship with a purported Chinese intelligence asset,” he emphasized, ahead of the fact that he himself already has several issues he plans to raise.
In this regard, Schumer has asked: “Were government officials told not to investigate because of Trump’s relationship with Mr. Huang? What did Trump know when he personally invited Mr. Huang aboard Air Force One?”
“The Americans,” he stressed, “deserve to be sure that those at the very top of power put the United States ahead of everything else, ahead of economic results and their personal friendships”.
After Huang’s departure, Colette Kress, the current executive vice president and chief financial officer of Nvidia, has provisionally taken over the company’s leadership while the succession process is completed, combining this role with her current responsibilities. The board of directors has already begun the search for a new CEO, considering both internal and external profiles.
For his part, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has publicly suggested that Apple’s former CEO, Tim Cook, would be an ideal candidate to take charge of Nvidia and thus fill the void left by Huang.