Anyone else think that they’re only making this public not because it happened but because he’s tried to go against Trump and releasing this is payback/coercion
no. this is a national security failure, and reflects poorly on the administration considering there's reporting they've known for months and still had huang in close proximity to the white house.
china has to resort to honeypots because they have few legitimate political tools to influence decisions of an american company. not so for Trump et al - there are much more effective ways for the president to coerce a ceo than telling the world they let a potentially compromised individual help make policy decisions lol