在美国几乎全部历史时期，现任总统指控他人“叛国”，都会被视为一件戏剧性且意义重大的事件。归根结底，叛国是可判死刑的罪行，情节是对国家实施犯罪性的背叛。
For nearly all of American history, the idea of a sitting president accusing of “treason” would’ve been recognized as a dramatic and significant development. Treason, after all, is a capital offense, involving a criminal betrayal of the nation.
叛国还是唯一一种由宪法明文规定的犯罪。因此，这种指控绝不能随意抛出，更不应由担任国家最高职务的人提出。恐怕得有人提醒唐纳德·特朗普这一点。
Treason is also unique as the only crime expressly defined by the Constitution— so it’s not an accusation to be thrown around casually, especially not by the person in the nation’s highest office.
“媒体 Matters”指出，特朗普总统周二接近午夜时在“Truth Social”平台上发文，将报道其政府批评性报道的新闻机构记者称为“叛国者”。
Someone probably ought to let Donald Trump know. Media Matters noted President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post published shortly before midnight on Tuesday, declared reporters at news outlets that produce reporting critical of his administration as “treasonous.
据“媒体 Matters”审查其社交媒体言论以及《国会山报》旗下 Factba.se 汇编的公开活动文字记录，这是特朗普至少本月第三次、自3月以来第九次指控新闻机构进行“叛国”报道。特朗普还表示，在其第二任期内，新闻机构另有四次几乎或差一点就构成了叛国，不过自5月以来，他已经转为直接作出叛国指控。
The post marked at least the third time this month, and the ninth time since March, that Trump had accused news outlets of “treasonous” reporting, according to a Media Matters review of his statements on social media and transcripts of his public events compiled by Roll Call’s Factba.se. The president also said news outlets had nearly or almost committed treason on four additional occasions during his second term, though since May he has transitioned to making outright accusations.
如果这一点还不够显而易见的话，总统针对的各家新闻机构（其中包括我的雇主 MS NOW）均未犯下任何此类罪行。而这正是问题的关键：特朗普经常以令人担忧的频率指控那些他不喜欢的人“叛国”，同时完全不重视这一词的真正含义。
In case it’s not obvious, none of the president’s journalistic targets (a list that included MS NOW, my employer) has committed any such crime. And therein lies the point: Trump routinely accuses people he doesn’t like of “treason” with an alarming frequency and without any real regard for the word’s meaning.
今年迄今为止，这位共和党人已在社交媒体上提及“叛国”（以及“叛国者”“叛国的”等相关词汇）超过200次。虽然记者一直是他最常攻击的目标，但最近，总统已将这一标签贴到了从人工智能批评者到民主党参议员候选人亚历山大·温德曼，再到对他的白宫舞厅面子工程提起法律挑战的组织等各类对象身上。这番言论并未引发大量头条报道，大概是因为听特朗普随口抛出这个词已经变得太过稀松平常。回顾MaddowBlog的存档，我发现他曾多次用“叛国”一词攻击巴拉克·奥巴马、反对伊朗战争的民主党批评者、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默、荣休众议院议长南希·佩洛西以及前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米。他还曾考虑对参议员亚当·希夫、《纽约时报》、谷歌以及联邦执法官员展开叛国调查。
By way of social media, the Republican has referenced “treason” (and related words like “treasonists” and “treasonous”) more than 200 times so far this year, and while journalists have been his most frequent target, the president has recently applied the label to everyone from critics of artificial intelligence to Democratic Senate candidate Alexander Vindman to the organization that filed a legal challenge against his White House ballroom vanity project The rhetoric didn’t generate a ton of headlines, probably because it’s become so routine to hear Trump throw the word around. Looking back through the MaddowBlog archive, I came across instances in which he used the word “treason” to attack Barack Obama Democratic critics of the war in Iran Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and former FBI Director James Comey He has also eyed treason investigations into Sen.
有一次，在他第一任期发表国情咨文之后，特朗普甚至暗示国会民主党人可能犯下了“叛国罪”，因为他们没有鼓掌到令他满意的程度。2023年，他宣称他认为两党组成的1月6日委员会成员“应该因欺诈和叛国罪受审”。一年后，这位共和党人转发了一条社交媒体信息，指控前众议院共和党会议主席利兹·切尼“有罪”，犯下了“叛国罪”。
Adam Schiff The New York Times Google federal law enforcement officials. At one point, after one of his first-term State of the Union addresses, Trump even suggested that congressional Democrats might have committed “treason” because they failed to applaud to his satisfaction In 2023, he declared his belief that members of the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee“should be tried for Fraud and Treason.” A year later, the Republican amplified a social media message that accused former House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney of being “guilty” of “treason.”
你听说过“狼来了”的男孩吗？我想向你介绍这位喊“叛国”的总统。特朗普从未明确说过他认为这个词到底是什么意思，但贯穿所有这些例子的共同线索是，他显然相信任何形式的反对，或他视为违背国家利益的举动，都可被定性为叛国。
You’ve heard of the boy who cried “wolf”? I’d like to introduce you to the president who cried “treason.” Trump has never explicitly said what, exactly, he thinks the word means, but the common thread that ties together all of these examples is his apparent belief that any kind of opposition or steps he perceives as antithetical to the nation’s interests would qualify as treason.
这简直荒唐至极，不过这也与他以一种令人不安的频率所拥抱的扭曲的“朕即国家”世界观如出一辙。
You’ve heard of the boy who cried “wolf”? I’d like to introduce you to the president who cried “treason.” Trump has never explicitly said what, exactly, he thinks the word means, but the common thread that ties together all of these examples is his apparent belief that any kind of opposition or steps he perceives as antithetical to the nation’s interests would qualify as treason.
当一位专制总统频繁、随意地诬陷他人或机构犯有“叛国罪”时，这种行为显然极其有害，因为它破坏了公民社会的正常秩序，使这种诬陷行为成为我们日常生活中司空见惯的“背景噪音”（即人们习以为常、却充满负面影响的现象）。然而，我们如今仍生活在这样的环境中。
That’s bonkers, though it’s also consistent with a twisted “L’État, c’est moi” worldview that he’s embraced with unnerving frequency. It’s not at all healthy when an authoritarian president falsely, casually and frequently accuses various people and institutions of treason, effectively making this the background noise of our civic lives. And yet, here we are.
特朗普又在他的可耻的“叛国罪”清单上新增了一项罪名——他针对的是自由媒体（以及其他机构）。
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