特朗普是历史上最成功的骗子之一，他通过让数百万选民相信他的虚假夸大和承诺，赢得了两次选举。但随着中期选举的提前投票现在已经开始，美国人终于开始看清他的不诚实、自私、无能、腐败以及对其权力的法律限制的漠视。
President Trump is one of history’s most successful con men, winning two elections by convincing millions of voters to believe his false boasts and promises. But with early voting now underway for the midterms, Americans are finally wising up to his dishonesty, selfishness, incompetence, corruption and disregard for legal restraints on his power.
如今，大多数美国人意识到，特朗普对进口产品征收的关税以及他发动的对伊朗的灾难性战争 — — 尽管他曾声称这场战争将持续不到八周，但已持续超过七个月 — — 是导致汽油、柴油、食品杂货以及许多其他产品价格上涨的原因。
Most Americans now realize Trump’s tariffs on imported products and his disastrous war of choice against Iran — which has lasted more than seven months, despite him saying it would last less than eight weeks — are to blame for the rising prices of gasoline, diesel fuel, groceries and many other products.
美联社-NORC中心公共事务研究民意调查于10月1日发布的结果显示，71%的美国成年人对特朗普处理战争的方式表示不赞同。65%的人认为他的政策导致了高物价，进而引发了负担能力危机。
An Associated Press-NORC Center Public Affairs Research poll published Oct. 1 found that 71 percent of adult Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the war. Sixty-five percent believe his policies have caused high prices that have created an affordability crisis.
《纽约时报》最新的民意调查平均值显示，不到40%的选民批准特朗普在职期间的整体表现。
The New York Times latest average of polls shows less than 40 percent of voters approve of Trump’s overall performance in office.
然而，特朗普仍拒绝承认这一现实。“每个人都认为价格高是因为我，但事实并非如此，”他在10月1日说。“我们拥有美国历史上任何总统中最好的[经济]数据，”他虚假地声称。“我们做得最差的只是公共关系。”
And yet, Trump refuses to acknowledge this reality. “Everyone thinks the prices are high because of me, but they’re not,” he said Oct. 1. “We have the greatest [economic] numbers of any president in the history of our country,” he falsely stated. “The only thing we’re doing badly at is public relations.”
最近，一位《时代》杂志记者告诉他：“你的民意调查从未如此低过。”特朗普回应道：“这些是假数字。……民调机构腐败了。”虽然民意调查有时可能不准确，但有声誉的民调机构都在努力追求准确性，他们不会通过伪造结果来故意损害自身的可信度和未来收入。
When told recently by a Time Magazine journalist that “your polls have never been lower,” Trump responded: “They’re fake numbers. … The pollsters are corrupt.”While polls are sometimes inaccurate, reputable pollsters all strive for accuracy and don’t deliberately undermine their own credibility and future earnings by falsifying results.
特朗普经常将民意调查、新闻报道、共和党输掉的选举以及任何对他不利的事情称为“假的”或“骗局”。事实上，他是有史以来领导我们国家的最大的假新闻和骗局的制造者。
Trump frequently calls polls, news stories, elections lost by Republicans, and anything else unfavorable to him “fake” or “a hoax.”In fact, he is the greatest purveyor of fake news and hoaxes ever to lead our nation.
CNN记者丹尼尔·戴尔自2016年起已对特朗普进行事实核查10年，他最近写道，截至2020年9月，“自2016年9月以来，我已记录了特朗普超过8500条虚假声明”。戴尔表示，他当时停止了对特朗普每一条言论的事实核查，因为“他编造了如此多的竞选谎言，以至于我身体上已经无法逐一核实。”华盛顿邮报的事实核查团队发现，特朗普在其首个任期内（包括戴尔停止计数后的最后几个月）共发表了30573条虚假和误导性言论，单日最高达到503条，出现在2020年总统选举前夕——尽管特朗普至今仍虚假地声称自己赢得了该选举。
CNN reporter Daniel Dale, who has been fact-checking Trump for 10 years, recently wrote that by September 2020, “I’d recorded more than 8,500 false claims since September 2016” by Trump. Dale said he stopped fact-checking every Trump statement then because he “was telling so many campaign lies that I’d become physically unable to look into all of them.”The Washington Post’s fact-checking team found that Trump made 30,573 false and misleading statements during his first term (including the final months after Dale stopped counting), peaking at 503 in a single day before the 2020 presidential election, which Trump still falsely claims he won.
在2024年大选竞选期间，特朗普宣布“将新房成本降低一半”的目标。他表示将把汽油价格降至每加仑低于2美元，“大幅降低利率”（这是总统无权做到的事情），并且如果当选，将在“24小时内”结束俄乌战争。同年他还说：“我不打算发动战争。我将制止战争。”
During his 2024 election campaign, Trump announced “the goal of cutting the cost of a new home in half.”He said he would reduce gasoline prices to less than $2 per gallon, “bring interest rates way down” (something no president has the power to do), and end Russia’s war against Ukraine “in 24 hours” if he was elected. He said in the same year that “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”
特朗普还在2024年表示，他将“大幅降低一切成本”，并把“能源和电力价格降低至少一半”。他甚至承诺：“每个问题都能得到解决，每个错误都能得到纠正。”然而，这些承诺均未兑现。这显然表明，特朗普不会兑现他如今所作的许多诺言。
Trump also said in 2024 that he would “bring the cost of everything way down” and cut “energy and electricity prices by half, at least.”He even promised that “Every problem can be solved, and every wrong can be rectified.”None of these things happened. This makes it obvious that Trump won’t keep many of the promises he is making now.
一项由《经济学人》-尤戈夫在9月进行的民意调查显示，只有21%的美国人认为，如果共和党在中期选举中保持对众议院和参议院的控制，特朗普会兑现向每位美国成年公民发放5000美元的承诺。
An Economist-YouGov poll in September found that only 21 percent of Americans believe Trump will keep his promise to send every adult U.S. citizen $5,000 if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate in the midterms.
另一项《经济学人》-YouGov民调在8月发现，50%的美国人认为与伊朗的战争将再持续一年或更久，尽管特朗普在9月声称战争将在“[中期]选举结束后立即”结束，并且“油价将大幅下跌”。事实是，特朗普通过对伊朗的战争、关税、削减医疗和政府服务、对富人和企业的减税、残酷的移民逮捕和驱逐（这些行为导致劳动力短缺）、撤销DEI（多元化、公平与包容）项目、对投票权的攻击、对新闻自由和学术自由的战争以及许多其他行动，使美国人的生活变得远比以前更糟。
Another Economist-YouGov poll in August found that 50 percent of Americans believed the war with Iran would last another year or more, even though Trump claimed in September that the war will end “immediately after the [midterm] election” and “oil prices are going to be tumbling downward.”The truth is that Trump has made life far worse for Americans with his war against Iran, tariffs, cuts to healthcare and government services, tax cuts for the rich and corporations, brutal immigrant arrests and deportations that have created worker shortages, rollbacks of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs, attacks on voting rights, war on freedom of the press and academic freedom, and many other actions.
鉴于如此惨淡的失败记录，除了总统之外的任何职位的人都会被解雇。但特朗普希望我们让共和党继续掌控国会两院的多数席位，以便他们允许他对我们造成更大的伤害。
With such a dismal record of failure, someone in any job other than the presidency would be fired. But Trump wants us to give Republicans continued majority control of both chambers of Congress so they will allow him to inflict even more harm on us.
随着特朗普为参加中期选举的共和党候选人进行竞选，他反复告诉美国人“装作我在选票上”。就像我的许多民主党同僚一样，我也希望选民装作特朗普在中期选票上。选民越多地思考他的灾难性政策和滥用职权的行为，就越有可能许多人投票给民主党。
As the president campaigns for Republicans running in the midterms, he is repeatedly telling Americans to “pretend I’m on the ballot.”Like many of my fellow Democrats, I also want voters to pretend Trump is on midterm ballots. The more voters think about his disastrous policies and abuses of power, the more likely many will be to vote for Democrats.
即使是最成功的骗子最终也会被抓获并为其行为承担责任。是时候让这种情况发生在特朗普身上了。如果民主党赢得国会至少一院的控制权，那就会实现这一点。
Even many of the most successful con men eventually get caught and are held accountable for their actions. It’s time for this to happen to Trump. If Democrats win control of at least one chamber of Congress, it will.
A. 斯科特·博尔登是一名律师，NewsNation撰稿人，曾任华盛顿特区民主党主席，也是前纽约州检察官。
A. Scott Bolden is an attorney, NewsNation contributor, former chair of the Washington, D.C. Democratic Party and a former New York state prosecutor.