Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) has spent years calling for a ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks. He represents California's 17th Congressional District—the heart of Silicon Valley—and sits on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. So when his wife sold Nvidia shares on September 4 and again on October 7—the second sale landing just one day after the stock hit its all-time high—and the shares later tumbled amid a spy scandal surrounding CEO Jensen Huang, eyebrows went up across Washington.
According to Capitol Trades, each of those sales fell between $1,000 and $15,000. In May, Khanna unloaded two more lots of Nvidia stock—one at the start of the month and one at the end—each in the same dollar range. Nvidia reached its second-highest price ever on May 14. Between June and September, Khanna bought back in. Sell near the top, buy back, sell near the top again. PJ Media first reported the pattern.
The context matters. Last month, The New York Times reported that Jensen Huang had a relationship with Alice Huang (no relation), a former Megaspeed executive. According to the Times, U.S. authorities investigated her and concluded she was a Chinese intelligence asset. Huang admitted to the affair on Sunday. Nvidia opened an investigation, and Jensen Huang resigned on Thursday—sending the stock into a tailspin.
The timing of Khanna's October sale—one day after Nvidia's peak, and before the scandal exploded into public view—has sparked outrage online. "Ro Khanna sold his NVIDIA stock an hour before the news broke about the CEO's affair," posted @jimmyfailla on X. "He's clearly guilty of Inside HER Trading."
Another account, @tradewithcong, flagged Khanna's committee assignments: the Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee, the Taiwan Caucus, and the High Tech Caucus. "Well, well, well," the post read. "Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece."
@liz_churchill10 wrote simply: "He had to have known. Ro Khanna should be investigated immediately. This is ridiculous."
Nvidia's chips sit at the center of the U.S.-China tech fight—the exact subject Khanna's committee examines. The company announced Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress following his resignation, according to live coverage from news outlets tracking the story.
Khanna has not addressed the specific timing of the trades publicly. It is not known whether he or his wife had any advance knowledge of the scandal before it broke. But the pattern—selling near peaks, buying back, selling near peaks again—is exactly the kind of trading record that has made Nancy Pelosi the subject of years of scrutiny as she prepares to leave Congress. PJ Media noted that with Pelosi departing, "the title of luckiest stock trader in Washington is up for grabs"—and early signs point to Khanna, already floated as a 2028 presidential contender.
For everyday Americans watching their 401(k)s bleed while members of Congress seem to trade with uncanny precision, the question is simple: if Khanna truly believes in banning congressional stock trading, why was his family trading Nvidia at all?
Our Take
Let's be clear about what we know and what we don't. We don't know for certain that Ro Khanna had inside information. But we do know this: a man who sits on the committee overseeing the China chip war sold Nvidia stock one day after its all-time high, right before a Chinese spy scandal involving the CEO sent shares tumbling. We know his wife made similar trades in May, right around another peak. We know he bought back in between June and September. And we know he's spent years telling voters he wants to ban congressional stock trading—because it's corrupt.
The American people deserve answers. If Khanna has nothing to hide, he should release his trading records, explain the timing, and call for the same investigation he'd demand of a Republican. Anything less is a double standard—the kind of "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrisy that has become the Democrats' trademark.
Patriots, this is exactly why we need a congressional stock trading ban—and why we need to hold every member accountable, regardless of party. If Ro Khanna wants to be president, he should start by answering the questions he'd ask of anyone else. What did he know, and when did he know it?
