The Narativ | Know Sooner
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
👀 THE FRONT PAGE
🕵️ NVIDIA SPY
Donald Trump is defending Jensen Huang. "He said, 'I had no idea that she was a spy,' and I really believe him," Trump told White House reporters Monday. He announced no investigation of his own. The woman is Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le. U.S. officials concluded she had been recruited by China's main spy agency, the New York Times reported. China called the allegation "unsubstantiated." Jensen Huang admitted an affair and said Nvidia's board had opened an inquiry into "the national security concerns." The affair is the smaller story. The company is the bigger one. Alice Huang helped set up Megaspeed in 2023, Bloomberg reported, shortly after the Biden administration banned sales of Nvidia's top chips to China. Megaspeed began as 7Road International, a Chinese gaming company with state ties, Tom's Hardware reported, and rebranded in Singapore. Megaspeed became Nvidia's largest buyer in Southeast Asia.
💰 BALLARD MONEY
Brian Ballard's lobbying firm reported $19.3 million in fees in 2024. Ballard reported $88.1 million in 2025, with his former managing partner Susie Wiles as Trump's chief of staff. Ballard Partners reported another $98.1 million through September this year, according to OpenSecrets, from the firm's lobbying disclosures. Ballard has now reported $186 million in 21 months, 2.6 times what the firm reported in all four years of Trump's first term. CBS News found Tuesday that 2025 was the biggest year any lobbying firm has reported since 1996, adjusted for inflation.
🏦 EPSTEIN BANKS
Jeffrey Epstein died on Aug. 10, 2019. Three days later, JPMorgan Chase reported 469 of his wire transfers, worth $201 million, as suspicious. The transfers "included payments to women in Russia, Belarus and Turkmenistan using foreign correspondent bank accounts at now-sanctioned Russian banks," Sen. Ron Wyden's staff wrote in the report he released Aug. 4. JPMorgan had closed Epstein's accounts in 2013. The report redacts the names of the people who received the money.
⚖️ HEGSETH VOTE
Pete Hegseth walked to the Pentagon lectern at 8 a.m. Tuesday for his first news conference there since May. He spoke for just under 30 minutes and went after the congressman trying to remove him. "This is not patriotism. This is sabotage," Hegseth said. House Republican leaders may do what he asked tonight.
🗂️ INTERIOR RECORDS
Rep. Jared Huffman has now sent the Trust for the National Mall the same letter he sent Lockheed Martin. Huffman, D-Calif., signed 36 of them, dated Nov. 9. Huffman tells each recipient to preserve every record.
🧭 THE BIGGER PICTURE
No administration in history has been flush with so much payola, backroom deals, naked corruption, and furthering the goals of our adversaries than this one. The Commerce Department appears to have halted an investigation into Nvidia’s sale of chips to China through an intermediary run by the CEO’s girlfriend. Instead, Nvidia gave Trump an anonymous $25 million donation, so Trump took its CEO’s word on her alleged Chinese espionage ties. Lobbying firm Ballard increased its revenue by $150 million with its old managing director running the West Wing. Three banks moved Epstein’s money through Russian banks after he died. The corruption is endemic; the cost is to our national security and our sovereignty, and Pete Hegseth sees nothing wrong at all.
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