U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Paris Orly airport, following the G7 Summit, in Orly, France, June 17, 2026. REUTERS Evelyn Hockstein
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe did not hold back his contempt over President Donald Trump allegedly letting Chinese spies worm their way into his inner circle.
Trump talks big about the Importance of the U.S. standing up to China, so recent news of a close relationship between himself and a high-ranking AI executive alleged to be a Chinese spy was a bit of a surprise.
Trump has taken to denying knowledge of being compromised by a Chinese plant installed directly in his inner circle.
"I didn't hear about it then," Trump said when asked whether Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a Chinese spy, as indicated by reports. "But a lot of people have heard about it. And Jensen totally denies that. I spoke to him today, just to see if he's feeling all right, how you doing. And I asked him about that. I asked him, ‘Did you have any idea that she was a spy?’ He said, ‘I had no idea that she was a spy.’ And I really believe him."
But McCabe did not hide his anger.
“It is inconceivable to me that the president of the United States was briefed on this matter. Not one once, but twice, and took no action,” said McCabe, speaking with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper Tuesday night. “I mean, I cannot even — there are no words to describe how big a coup this is for the Chinese government to have an asset, a developed, recruited asset, to fall into an intimate relationship with the most significant tech leader in the world, the CEO of the company that produces the chips that are forbidden fruit to the government of China and Chinese technology industries. And then to have that person, that CEO, have a persistent, direct relationship with the president of the United States, during which time we know that he advocated strenuously for the reduction or removal of trade restrictions between the United States and China over Nvidia chips.”
“I mean, this is this is a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth,” barked McCabe. “This is unbelievable. Huang has been pushing for easing restrictions by the Trump administration on Nvidia selling chips to China. And he got them. He got them in return for the ability to sell Nvidia chips to China in return for giving the United States government 25 percent of that sale. That alone is off the charts.”
McCabe added that never in his entire career has he witnessed the United States government profiting from the sale of a “formerly restricted item to our to our existential adversary.”
CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller was equally flabbergasted by Trump’s indifference, calling the setup “an incredible coup by Chinese intelligence” to create an access agency agent by building the structure around her or by recruiting somebody on the way up in the tech world who could get next to the president of the United States.
“If this started in 2024 with investigations, we're in 2026. Why wasn't this somehow interrupted along the way?” said Miller, who added that the FBI’s counterintelligence program was “badly damaged at the beginning of the Trump administration.”
“So many people were pulled out, fired, transferred, and at least two of the assistant directors in charge of the Washington field office were sent packing, fired for investigating people who were close to Donald Trump,” said Miller. “… The FBI that is operating now is not the FBI I left, and it’s not the FBI that that that Mr. McCabe left.”
