“他们正处于完全的恐慌模式,”一名靠近白宫的人士表示。共和党在距离中期选举26天之际，正将火力转向两名肩负维持国会控制权这一艰巨任务的人。
“They are in full-on panic mode,” one person close to the White House said. Republicans 26 days out from a dire midterm reckoning are turning their cannons toward the two men tasked with the herculean job of maintaining control of Congress.
“这已经打开了洪水闸,”一名靠近白宫的人士对POLITICO表示，有关克里斯·拉西维塔和詹姆斯·布莱尔前往巴尔干半岛为亲俄政权的连任工作提供咨询的消息，使共和党在国内中期选举前景黯淡之际，“刀已经完全出鞘了。”总统唐纳德·特朗普事发后并不知情，得知后向多位顾问询问反应意见，随后于周三通过白宫助手娜塔丽·哈珀在Truth Social发表了帖子，据两名知情人士透露。
“This has opened the floodgates,” a person close to the White House told POLITICO of revelations that Chris LaCivita and James Blair traveled to the Balkans to advise a Russia-friendly regime’s reelection effort while Republicans’ midterm prospects dwindle back home. “The knives are now fully out for these two.”
这对总统顶尖政治参谋来说是一次非同寻常的公开疏远行为。特朗普此前称他们为“外部顾问”,“不为我工作”,仅几个月前还赞扬布莱尔是“全国最聪明的政治人物之一”,并指派他帮助共和党赢得中期选举。
President Donald Trump wasn’t aware of the trip and after finding out, called several advisers to solicit reactions before dictating Wednesday’s Truth Social post to White House aide Natalie Harp, according to two people familiar with the matter. It was an extraordinary public distancing for two of the president’s top political lieutenants, who Trump called “outside consultants” who “do not work for me” just months after Trump hailed Blair as “one of the brightest political minds in the Country” and tasked him with helping Republicans win the midterms.