Beth Willon

Tweets my own. Retweets not endorsements. Cannot parallel park.

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

#Coffeetalk

. https://t.co/qTLc5xgchR via @YouTube

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

And there will be more - money, power, arrogance & making up for what he never had in his younger life when he was a nobody.

I want to know is where the chips landed & who is connected to it.

[Forbes @Forbes]

Jensen Huang Had A Third Affair—With Another Nvidia Employee, Report Says
https://t.co/aPNU1Nnm8f

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

@karaswisher did a great job breaking the whole spy scandal down on @hereandnow this morning!

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Hillary Clinton on the Jensen Huang spy scandal:

I will predict to you what will happen when Trump sees Xi Jinping in a few weeks.

He will say to Xi Jinping, like he said to Putin, "Is this true?" And Xi Jinping will say, "Of course it's not, Donald. You know that we wouldn't do that to you."

And then Trump will come out and say, "I asked President Xi if it were true, and he assured me it wasn't."

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Anyone who yells at moronic Pistol
Pete @PeteHegseth is the Person of the Year!

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

RIP

[Mark Harris @itismarkharris]

Dan Hicks’ call of the Michael Phelps-Jason Lezak relay from the 2008 Olympics will long live as one of the greatest ever.

Rest in peace to a legend.

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Definitely not! He’s a Trump ally. This isn’t just another day at the office for the arrogant Silicon Valley Tech bros - like Trump they think only of their shareholders. This is about national security.

There’s a lot more investigating to do about the sale of chips - what did the Trump Administration wrecking crew know & when did they know it.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

President Trump suggested former Apple CEO Tim Cook should replace Jensen Huang as CEO of Nvidia following Huang's resignation.

“A Legend replaces a Legend!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Jensen Huang resigned as CEO of AI tech giant Nvidia effective immediately following a scandal involving an alleged spy, the company's board of directors announced Thursday.

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

We’ll see…

[Zach Warmbrodt @Zachary]

NEW Nvidia fallout: Republicans are targeting Lutnick and top deputies over their chips policy and whether they put private tech interests above national security.

“Secretary Lutnick needs to answer that in front of God and country,” Sen. Kennedy says.

https://t.co/i2qqrWj1DN

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

I covered the recall of then Gov. Gray Davis & the Schwarzenegger campaign - it was ugly so glad to see this years later. Time does heal in some political cases. It will never heal anything with the evil Trump.

[Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson]

🇺🇸 @Schwarzenegger & @GovernorDavis were once political rivals.

But now, they’re friends.

And they’ve come together on this Veteran’s Day to host a pizza 🍕 party for the vets at West L.A.’s VA.

Their message? Supporting our troops is bigger than partisanship.

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Follow the money

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

Nvidia’s board is right to act. No one in DC should spike the ball on the 20-yard line.

Their corporate board has shown more accountability and courage in a matter of days than anyone in the Trump Administration.

From the CIA Director to the FBI Director to the Commerce Secretary, they have known all of this for over a year and have refused to act.

But like any Don, when it comes to the Trump White House and money, their only question is what’s my cut?

In the Trump White House, the sign on the Resolute Desk says “the buck stops here” — and it’s clear they mean it literally. For Truman it was about accountability. For Trump it’s all cash and carry.

It’s time for Congress to hold the Trump Administration accountable for selling America’s security to the highest bidder.

https://t.co/F0WMDu8Jlm

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Heads must roll on this.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Lutnick advocated the tariffs, scuttled a trade deal with Canada that sparked a pre-midterm trade war, and has been covering for a company funneling our technology to China while stalling presidential orders to curtail those transfers.

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

You’ve got quite a story in the South Bay and in Washington @scottbudman!

[scott budman @scottbudman]

#New: NYT reporting that Jensen Huang also had an affair with an Nvidia executive who reported to him.
$NVDA

[Serg @orshovskiy]

Before flying to Guyana in November 1978, a 28-year-old congressional aide wrote a note for her parents, just in case. "Should anything happen be proud," it said. "I have no regrets." Three days later she was lying behind a plane wheel on a jungle airstrip, pretending to be dead:

Her name was Jackie Speier. She worked for Congressman Leo Ryan, who had flown to Jonestown to check on Americans living in Jim Jones's Peoples Temple. Families back home said their relatives were being held there against their will. When Ryan's group tried to fly out with about 15 people who wanted to leave, Jones's men pulled up at the Port Kaituma airstrip and opened fire. Ryan was hit more than 40 times. Speier hid behind a wheel and played dead. A gunman walked up and shot her five times at point-blank range. "The whole right side of my body was blown up."

She lay on that airstrip for 22 hours with no medical care. She thought of her grandmother and decided she didn't want her to live through her funeral. That same night more than 900 people died in Jonestown.

In the video below, about a year later, she sits down with a local TV reporter. At 0:20 she says doctors had just found another bullet in her arm, and she'd need surgery again in December. Then she jokes: if they find another one, she'll be "manufacturing them." The smile doesn't last. Every investigation that was promised went nowhere. "Not indictment one, not report one." At 1:30 she asks whether a congressman and 900 people "all died in vain." Her last words in the clip: "It leaves me cold."

She spent two months in the hospital and had 10 surgeries, guarded around the clock by U.S. Marshals because of threats to her life. 30 years after the ambush, in 2008, she won Leo Ryan's old seat in Congress.

This week is 48 years since that airstrip. She played dead, and they shot her anyway. What would you have done?

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

This story gets more corrupt by the minutes!

[Axios @axios]

SCOOP: President Trump authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China on Thursday, but one administration official repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. https://t.co/5Duzi14eEp

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Probably - Trump is doing his own press briefings.

[Clara Jeffery @ClaraJeffery]

Is Stephen Miller writing speeches again

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

#Mississippi

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

We may have had to count One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, but Blue Mississippi sure has a nice ring to it! Scott, you put your heart and soul into this race because you believe in the promise of your state’s people. And they believed in you right back. I’m honored to have stood alongside you. Congratulations!

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Mississippi going Blue is a stunner!

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

It’s impossible to overstate the history being made by Scott Colom in Mississippi. A state whose history is stained by slavery, segregation, lynchings, and the violent suppression of Black voters has just elected its first Black U.S. Senator by popular vote.

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Historic.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow. The moment Jake Tapper called the Mississippi Senate race is something to see.

Mississippi was ground zero for civil rights. The most dangerous state for Black people. They kept saying go slow, go slow.

Tonight, Mississippi sends a Black man to the Senate.

Scott Colom

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Not a good week for Jensen. Hard crash to the bottom.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy. https://t.co/Pjsu5j87CF

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy. https://t.co/Pjsu5j87CF

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Nothing is sacred with anyone associated with Trump.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Imagine how much an actual human being with thoughts and feelings would be humiliated by this

[Beth Willon @bethwillon]

Hope his wife & children take him and his leather coat to the cleaners.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Jensen Huang has put the two children he has with his wife of more than 40 years in high-priority business units at Nvidia 🔗 https://t.co/7FnVWS6lsJ