i understood it as: The real story here is what made it so that these affairs couldn't just be covered up and moved past. What made it so that Jensen couldn't give a bunch of strongly written apologies, maybe step down for a month or two and then come back as if nothing had happened. Ultimately, an affair isn't really that bad, and I doubt NVIDIA's shareholders are all American Patriots that feel betrayed over GPUs being sold to China.

Commenter is saying the real news isn't the affairs. (Trump was told about the spy late 2025.)

But "whatever" happened to make them count.

E.g. Jensen angers some important people.

I mean main media outlets know that the public really has turned on billionaires so this is some meat to feed the readers (great ad rev). Someone from the administration leaking the information to a reporter for sure wouldn't be surprising without knowing how much it would blow up. Also many other viable theories too.