Trump knew about the spy affair like a year ago, and it seems like the White House was helping Huang cover it up / pretending nothing was wrong, perhaps so Trump could leverage it for corrupt purposes.

Now that Trump looks like a weak lame duck, and congressional subpoenas are coming, the entire calculation is different.

The Dem plan for AI was to work with Anthropic and lock down GPUs to prevent running open / unapproved models. Basically limit AI development and inference to a handful of regulated companies.

Jensen Huang wasn't on board with that so now he's gone.

What could he have done to swing the election in their favor? I think it’s more likely that with Democrats in power, NVIDIA can no longer count on the Trump administration’s corruption to prevent investigations. There may be a lot more left to uncover, and they now have a convenient fall-guy to pin everything on.