On Friday, Fox Business – which typically extends the benefit of the doubt to allies of President Donald Trump – aired a segment that asked some blunt questions and made some blunt assertions about one White House official’s potential role in a “conspiracy” that has shocked the world over the past week. According to one frequent Fox contributor, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “has a lot to answer for” if he was involved with schemes to smuggle banned microchips to China.

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    9 hours ago

    Could be that Trump didn’t know. Lutnick worked behind his back. Or Trump knew and didn’t care as long as it made him money.

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      8 hours ago

      Trump %100 knew, as he had known for a year that Jensen was having an affair and who it was with. Pretty sure there was a report from the DOJ to him about the whole thing and he ignored it.