一位协助推动理查德·尼克松弹劾的前议员周日抨击特朗普政府试图为这位已故蒙羞总统的行为翻案，称其“简直愚蠢透顶”。
A former lawmaker who helped spearhead the impeachment of Richard Nixon decried on Sunday as “just beyond stupid” a Trump administration effort to rehabilitate the late disgraced president’s conduct.
前众议员、纽约州民主党人伊丽莎白·霍尔茨曼告诉MS NOW，司法部据称有意调查调查尼克松水门窃听案的检察官是否渎职，这“毫无道理”。她说，当她第一次读到这项审查时，脑海中闪过一个念头。
Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y., told MS NOW that the Justice Department’s reported interest in whether prosecutors who investigated Nixon over the Watergate break-in committed misconduct “makes no sense.”When she first read about the review, she said, one thing ran through her head.
“他们不可能那么蠢，”霍尔茨曼在《与雅各布·索博罗夫对话》节目中说。据《华尔街日报》报道，特朗普领导的司法部据称正在审查导致尼克松辞职的特别检察官调查。这项审查发生在丑闻爆发50多年后，当时特朗普及其政府重新聚焦于尼克松和水门事件。
“They can’t be that stupid,” Holtzman said on “Connect with Jacob Soboroff.”The Trump Department of Justice is reportedly examining the special prosecutor’s investigation that led to Nixon’s resignation, according to The Wall Street Journal The review comes over 50 years after the scandal, as Trump and his administration have shown a renewed focus on Nixon and Watergate.
周日，特朗普在Truth Social上发布了一张并排的分屏照片，左边是前总统巴拉克·奥巴马，右边是尼克松。配文写道：“这两个人中，一个是美国历史上最腐败的总统。另一个是理查德·尼克松。”
On Sunday, Trump posted on Truth Social a split photo of former President Barack Obama and Nixon side by side. The caption read: “One of these men is the most corrupt president in the history of the United States. The other is Richard Nixon.”
据《华尔街日报》报道，一名司法部高级官员上月邀请前尼克松白宫助理、水门事件修正主义者杰夫·谢泼德前往司法部总部。据报道，谢泼德进行了长达两小时的演讲，阐述他的理论，即“深层政府”搞垮了尼克松。副总统JD·万斯曾将特朗普比作尼克松。
According to The Wall Street Journal, a senior Justice Department official invited former Nixon White House fellow and Watergate revisionist Geoff Shepard to DOJ headquarters last month. Shepard reportedly gave a two-hour presentation on his theory that the “deep state” took Nixon down. Vice President JD Vance has compared Trump to Nixon.
万斯6月在尼克松总统图书馆和博物馆的一次公开露面中表示：“如果水门事件发生在明天，那将只是一个12小时的新闻周期。这种事件竟能推翻一个总统职位，简直是疯了。”
During an appearance at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in June, Vance said, “If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. Like, the idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.”
万斯补充道：“如果你看看深层政府如何搞垮理查德·尼克松的故事，这与同一群人、同一批机构在特朗普第一任期内试图对唐纳德·特朗普所做的并没有太大区别。这里存在着平行关系。”
“If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions, tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration,” Vance added. “There is a parallel.”
霍尔兹曼曾在1974年投票弹劾尼克松的众议院司法委员会任职，她认为政府正利用这次复盘，在特朗普和尼克松之间划等号。她暗示，政府似乎试图表明针对特朗普的调查是假的，检察官“想方设法搞垮他，就像他们当年想方设法搞垮尼克松一样。”
Holtzman, who sat on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Nixon in 1974, said she thinks the administration is using the review to draw parallels between Trump and Nixon. She suggested the administration is somehow trying to show that investigations into Trump were fake, with prosecutors “trying to get him just the way they tried to get Nixon.”
霍尔兹曼说：“有人竟然说理查德·尼克松是被陷害的，这简直蠢透了、荒谬透顶。因为你得说所有人都被骗了——共和党人被骗了，最高法院被骗了，所有人都被骗了，只有这个家伙和特朗普没被骗。”一位前水门事件检察官同意她的观点，并在周六发表于《MS NOW》的一篇评论文章中表达了这一立场。
“For someone to say that somehow Richard Nixon was railroaded, it’s just beyond stupid and beyond absurd,” Holtzman said. “Because you’d have to say that everybody was duped — that the Republicans were duped, that the Supreme Court was duped, that everybody was duped except this guy and Trump.”A former Watergate prosecutor agrees with her, as he wrote in an MS NOW opinion piece published Saturday.
霍尔兹曼表示，与尼克松划清界限不会帮助特朗普在下个月的选举中获胜。
Aligning himself with Nixon won’t help Trump at the polls next month, Holtzman said.
霍尔兹曼说：“特朗普总统喜欢谈论‘最坏中的最坏’。在他之前，理查德·尼克松是我们所有总统中最坏的。那么，为什么特朗普在中期选举期间，要试图把自己和‘最坏中的最坏’联系在一起呢？”她表示，为众议院司法委员会在弹劾过程中展现的两党合作感到自豪，正是这项工作导致尼克松在众议院准备弹劾他之际辞职。
“President Trump likes to talk about the worst of the worst,” Holtzman said. “Richard Nixon was — until him — the worst of all of our presidents. And now why would Trump, in the middle of a midterm election, try to align himself with the worst of the worst?”She said she took pride in the House Judiciary Committee’s bipartisan work during the impeachment process, which led Nixon to resign when it became apparent that the House of Representatives was prepared to impeach him.
“这是美国历史上的一个高光时刻，我们让一位有权势的人、一位总统承担责任，”霍尔茨曼说。“而特朗普想要推翻这一点，并对美国人民说，‘那其实没用，那是不诚实的。’但他对此在撒谎，他的人也在撒谎。”“愚蠢透顶”：水
“It was a high moment in American history that we held a powerful person, a president, accountable,” Holtzman said. “And Trump wants to take that down and say to the American people, ‘That didn’t really work, that was dishonest.’ But he’s being dishonest about it, and his people are being dishonest about it.”The post‘Beyond stupid’: Watergate-era lawmaker on Trump’s Nixon fixation MS NOW