唐纳德·特朗普在过去一个多月的时间里一直坚称，他最近在达拉斯举行的中期代表大会上没有空席位。就在上周，在大多数政治观察家对毫无意义的共和党集会完全失去兴趣很久之后，总统继续声称这次活动的出席率非常高--尽管事实上，那些真正在舞台上的人看到了，并且在许多情况下有记录，各种空座位。言辞令人遗憾，但没有什么比人群规模更关心的了。
Donald Trump has spent the past month or so insisting that there were no empty seats at his recent midterm convention in Dallas. As recently as last week, long after most political observers had completely lost interest in the meaningless Republican gathering, the president continued to claim the event had extraordinary attendance — despite the fact that those who were actually in the arena saw, and in many instances documented, all kinds of empty seats The rhetoric was pitiful, but there’s little this guy cares more about than crowd size.
现在，随着特朗普最近几天在红州举行竞选集会，这位不受欢迎的总统的投票率可以用仁慈的方式来形容。事实上，《纽约时报》在阿拉巴马州的一次活动后报道称，“这些天来，特朗普先生陷入了政治麻烦，即使是他著名的忠诚支持者。他周五发表讲话的室内体育场的面积只有他曾经发表讲话的足球场的一小部分--出于安全考虑，他很少再在户外场地发表讲话--但这个地方仍然没有满员。一些上面几乎完全空了。”不仅仅是阿拉巴马州。
Now, as Trump has held campaign rallies in red states in recent days, turnout for the unpopular president can be charitably described as . In fact, The New York Times reported after an event in Alabama, “These days, Mr. Trump is in political trouble, even with members of his famously loyal base. The indoor arena that he spoke at on Friday was a fraction of the size of the football stadium he once spoke in — security concerns are such that he rarely speaks in outdoor venues anymore — and still the place was not full. Some upper sections were almost completely empty.”It wasn’t just Alabama.
俄亥俄州和俄克拉荷马州的共和党集会上可以看到大量空座位，因为参加活动的许多记者都能够记录下来。特朗普没有接受。他发表了这个咆哮周一下午，他的社交媒体平台上写道：俄亥俄竞技场已经挤满了人--但这些人仍在试图进入。《纽约时报》称，“有空座位”，但事实上根本没有座位，数千人不得不被拒绝。《纽约时报》和许多其他人工媒体奥特莱斯应该因其不诚实和对我们国家的伤害而被捕。
Plenty of empty seats were visible at Republican gatherings in Ohio and Oklahoma, as plenty of reporters in attendance for the event were able to document. Trump didn’t take it well. He published this rant to his social media platform Monday afternoon: The Ohio Arena was already full to the brim — And yet these people were still trying to get in. The New York Times said, “There were empty seats” when, in fact, there were none, and thousands of people had to be turned away. The New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country.
当伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）拥有500到1，000人时，他们会让这听起来像是有史以来发生的最大事件。当唐纳德·J·特朗普总统拥有5万人时，他们说得好像没有人出现！
When Bernie Sanders has 500 to 1,000 people, they make it sound like it’s the biggest event that ever took place. When PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP has 50,000 people, they make it sound like nobody showed up!
一分钟后，他发表了另一篇222字的长篇大论，声称有些座位空着--但这只是因为他的许多崇拜者为了靠近他而放弃了座位。“我从来没有空座位--从来没有，也永远不会！”总统补充道。
A minute later, he published another 222-word tirade claiming that some seats empty — but only because so many of his admirers had abandoned their seats to get closer to him. “I never have empty seats — Never have, and never will!” the president added.
人们很容易将这些长篇大论视为可悲，但我们不要太快地超越他在第一次长篇大论中的措辞：“《纽约时报》和许多其他人工媒体奥特莱斯，应该因其不诚实和对我们国家的伤害而被捕。”
It’s tempting to brush off these harangues as pathetic, but let’s not move too quickly past his phrasing in that first harangue: “The New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country.”
这才是最重要的如果特朗普的自我安慰方法涉及在人群规模上撒谎，那就这样吧。但是，当一位现任美国总统开始公开支持逮捕记者，因为他们发表了白宫不赞成的报道时，这一切都处于针对新闻自由的更大规模战争之中，例行提及“叛国罪”，这就更难摆脱。
And that’s what matters. If Trump’s approach to self-soothing involves lying about crowd sizes, so be it. But when a sitting American president starts publicly endorsing journalists’ arrest because they’ve published reports the White House disapproves of, all in the middle of a larger war on the free press routine references to “treason,” that’s tougher to shrug off.
也许司法部长托德·布兰奇和联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔可以从联邦执法的角度解释这一点。总统建议记者“应该因不诚实和对我们国家的伤害而被捕”。他们同意吗？他们有没有收到西翼的任何指示，对报道特朗普不喜欢的报道的记者展开刑事调查？
Perhaps Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel can shed light on this from a federal law enforcement perspective. The president is suggesting journalists “should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country.”Do they agree? Have they received any directives from the West Wing to launch criminal investigations targeting reporters for running reports Trump doesn’t like?
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