唐纳德·特朗普坚称，在赦免众议员亨利·奎亚尔时，他并没有期待任何回报——但随后又说，他对奎亚尔没有报答自己感到失望。
Donald Trump insisted he hadn’t expected anything when pardoning Representative Henry Cuellar—then said he was disappointed Cuellar didn’t pay him back.
克里斯托弗·李/彭博社/盖蒂图片社 当唐纳德·特朗普给予时，他总希望得到回报。
Christopher Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images When Donald Trump gives, he expects something in return.
这一说法是在周三晚间针对得克萨斯州众议员亨利·奎亚尔的抨击过程中提出的。特朗普显然认为，奎亚尔在去年获得总统赦免后，应该成为共和党人。
The revelation came amid an attack Wednesday night against Texas Representative Henry Cuellar, who Trump apparently believed should have become a Republican after he received a presidential pardon last year.
在得克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市的一场竞选集会上，特朗普坚称，对于总统赦免，他从不期待任何交换。但几分钟后，他就自己推翻了这一说法。
Speaking at a campaign rally in San Antonio, Texas, Trump insisted that he never expects quid pro quos when it comes to presidential pardons. But he then proved that untrue minutes later.
“我没有做任何交易，”特朗普在回忆与奎亚尔的互动时宣称。“我没有说：‘哦，如果你转为共和党人，我就给你赦免。’我没说过这样的话。不，我本可以很轻易地这么做——腐败的政客才会那样做。”
“I made no deal,” Trump declared, recalling his exchange with Cuellar. “I didn’t say, ‘Oh, I’ll give you the pardons if you turn Republican.’ I didn’t say that. No, I could have done that very easily but—where a crooked politician would have done that.
“但我曾以为，奎亚尔很可能会有这样的反应：‘哇，他真的做了一件了不起的事，你知道，他确实有颗善良的心。’”总统随后暗示，奎亚尔被民主党描绘成了反派，并表示“如果我们邀请他”，他本会张开双臂欢迎奎亚尔加入共和党。
“But I thought there would be a good chance that Cuellar might say, ‘Wow, he did something really wonderful, you know, somebody has a heart.’”The president then suggested Cuellar had been villainized by the Democratic Party and that he would have been welcomed into the Republican Party with open arms “if we asked.”
仅仅片刻之后，特朗普又谈到奎亚尔的女儿们曾“恳求”他赦免父亲，并遗憾地表示，她们本应“用同样的魅力来说服父母做正确的事”。“我猜我可能曾期望他不会参选，或者也许他会以共和党人的身份参选，我也不清楚，”特朗普说。
Just moments later, Trump mused about how Cuellar’s daughters had “begged” the president to pardon their father, and wished that they had used the “same level of charm to convince their mother and father to do the right thing.”“I guess I expected maybe he wouldn’t run, or maybe he’d run maybe as a Republican, I don’t know,” Trump said.
几个小时前，在支持奎亚尔的对手时，特朗普就在“真相社交”平台上表达了类似观点。总统指责奎亚尔犯下了“极其严重的不忠行为”，并称他是个“极度忘恩负义的人”。“亨利·奎亚尔是个失败者，他此刻应该和妻子一起，在最高级别的监狱里服长期监禁。”特朗普补充道。
Trump had shared similar thoughts on Truth Social hours prior when endorsing Cuellar’s opponent. The president accused Cuellar of a “tremendous act of disloyalty” and said Cuellar was an “extremely ungrateful person.”“Henry Cuellar is a LOSER who, right now, should be serving a long-term jail sentence with his wife in a top level penitentiary,” Trump added.
2022年，联邦调查局（FBI）对库埃利亚尔的住宅和办公室进行了突击搜查，这是针对这位得州民主党人与阿塞拜疆关系的一项联邦调查的一部分。在特朗普介入之前，库埃利亚尔和他的妻子面临着一项涉及贿赂、洗钱和共谋的十多项指控——其中包括被控从该中亚国家非法收受60万美元贿赂。当时，特朗普将这些指控归咎于拜登政府的越权干预，并暗示他的前任总统已将法律体系武器化，以惩罚库埃利亚尔批评美国移民程序的行为。
The FBI raided Cuellar’s home and office in 2022 as part of a federal probe into the Texas Democrat’s ties to Azerbaijan. Cuellar and his wife faced a dozen charges of bribery, money laundering, and conspiracy—including allegations that they improperly accepted $600,000 in bribes from the central Asian country—before Trump intervened. At the time, Trump chalked up the charges to an improper intervention by the Biden administration, suggesting that his predecessor had weaponized the legal system to punish Cuellar for criticizing America’s immigration processes.
特朗普称他真的希望伊朗轰炸圣迭戈和洛杉矶。唐纳德·特朗普的团队声称，他最初的言论被断章取义。然而，这位总统却进一步强调了这一说法。
Trump Says He Really Does Want Iran to Bomb San Diego and Los Angeles Donald Trump’s team claimed his initial comments were taken out of context. The president, however, doubled down.
唐纳德·特朗普总统显然从想象伊朗摧毁美国城市的过程中获得了快感。
President Donald Trump clearly gets a kick out of imagining Iran destroying American cities.
在周三晚上于圣安东尼奥举行的一场集会上，特朗普再次强调了这个荒谬的谬论：任何抱怨油价过高的人都应该考虑另一种可能性——即伊朗可能会袭击洛杉矶或圣迭戈。
Speaking at a rally in San Antonio Wednesday night, Trump doubled down on the outlandish fallacy that anyone complaining about high gas prices should consider the alternative: that Iran could strike Los Angeles or San Diego.
“但你想看到创伤吗？你想看到问题吗？我前几天就说过，让他们在途中用导弹袭击圣地亚哥或洛杉矶吧。让他们袭击——你想看到一场恐怖灾难吗？你想看到问题吗？让他们袭击圣地亚哥吧。让他们袭击洛杉矶吧。你想看到一些坏事发生吗？你想看到一个陷入自由落体的国家吗？”特朗普说，“我们不会让这种事发生。我们会保护我们的城市，保护我们的国家。”
“But you wanna see trauma? You wanna see problems? And I said it the other day, let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. Let them hit—you wanna see a horror show, you wanna see problems? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. And you wanna see some bad things happen. You wanna see a country that would be in free fall,” Trump said. “We’re not gonna let that happen. We protect our cities, we protect our country.”Trump: "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show?
特朗普：“让他们在途中用导弹袭击圣地亚哥或洛杉矶吧。你想看到一场恐怖灾难吗？让他们袭击圣地亚哥吧。让他们袭击洛杉矶吧。你想看到一些坏事发生吗？”
Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"
本周早些时候，特朗普在内布拉斯加州的一场集会上发表了类似的言论，他说：“他们可以摧毁一座城市。让他们摧毁，让他们摧毁洛杉矶；让他们摧毁圣地亚哥。这——这只是一个非常小的代价，而且很快就会结束。”一些观众认为，特朗普这是在向伊朗发出邀请，让其摧毁两个美国城市。当这位总统提到加利福尼亚州即将被摧毁时，集会的群众甚至爆发出欢呼，而加利福尼亚州一直以来都是他政府的目标。
Trump made a similar remark at a rally in Nebraska earlier this week, where he said, “They can take out a city. Let them take, let them take out Los Angeles; let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over with very soon.”Some viewers believed that Trump had issued an invitation to Iran to destroy two American cities. The rally crowd even burst into cheers when the president evoked the imminent destruction of California, a consistent target of his administration.
但特朗普的团队坚称，他的言论只是被断章取义：他所说的“让他们”其实是在警告，如果美国不介入，可能会发生什么；而“小小的代价”指的是商品和服务的高昂价格。
But Trump’s team insisted that his comment was simply taken out of context: His “let them” comment was a warning of what could happen if the United States did not intervene, and that the “small price to pay” referred to high prices of goods and services.
白宫传播总监史蒂文·张在一份声明中写道：“他明确表示，如果核伊朗没有被阻止，美国城市就会受到威胁。特朗普决定重新提及这一争议性言论，从而澄清了一切：显然，他喜欢提及这些蓝色州城市的毁灭，以此来向红色州的民众说明他关于高油价的荒谬论点。他的戏剧性表演只是另一种逃避高油价责任的方式。”
“He was clearly stating U.S. cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped,” White House communications director Steven Cheung wrote on Trump’s decision to revisit his controversial comment clarifies everything: Clearly he likes to evoke the destruction of these blue cities in order to illustrate his nonsensical point about high gas prices to crowds in red states. His dramatics are just another way to sidestep blame for high prices.
值得注意的是，特朗普的论点存在谬误。多位特朗普政府的前官员都反驳了总统的说法，即伊朗的核计划对国家安全构成了迫在眉睫的威胁。特朗普本周早些时候还声称，伊朗的核计划已于2025年6月被彻底摧毁，而他在2026年3月下令发动攻击时，距离这一时间点还有整整八个月。
It’s worth noting that Trump’s fallacy is a false one. Multiple former Trump administration officials havecontradicted the president’s claims that Iran’s nuclear program presented any imminent threat to national security. Trump himself claimed earlier this week that Iran’s nuclear program had been obliterated in June 2025, a full eight months before he ordered attacks in March 2026.
“通过Signal联系我”：金伯利·吉尔福伊尔令人震惊的骗局曝光——美国驻希腊大使曾恳求他人支付其美国运通卡账单，以换取政治上的好处。
“Call Me on Signal”: Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Jaw-Dropping Grift Exposed Trump’s ambassador to Greece has been begging for money to pay off her AmEx card—in exchange for the promise of political favors.
2026年3月26日，在白宫举行的希腊独立日庆典上，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普与美国驻希腊大使金伯利·吉尔福伊尔一同出席。 。去年在确认她担任美国驻希腊大使的进程中，金伯利·吉尔福伊尔曾恳求一名捐赠者秘密向她转账10万美元，作为其“金钱换政治关照”骗局的一部分。
President Donald Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, U.S. ambassador to Greece, during a Greek Independence Day celebration at the White House, on March 26 Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg/Getty Images Kimberly Guilfoyle begged a donor to send her $100,000 without leaving a trace as part of her pay-to-play grift—in the midst of her confirmation process last year to become U.S. ambassador to Greece.
《华尔街日报》报道称，吉尔福伊尔曾敦促特朗普的捐赠者兼前国会候选人埃里克·迪特斯向她转账数十万美元，并承诺作为回报，她将确保政府特别关照迪特斯及其个人税务问题。吉尔福伊尔还曾是加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽森的前妻，以及唐纳德·特朗普小儿子的前未婚妻。
The Wall Street Journalreports that Guilfoyle urged Trump donor and former congressional candidate Eric Deters to send her hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in exchange she’d make sure the administration took special care of Deters and his personal tax issues. Guilfoyle is also the former wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom and ex-fiancé of Donald Trump Jr.
“你直接转到这里就行。如果你把钱电汇给美国运通公司，记录上根本不会显示任何信息，”吉尔福伊尔于2025年7月3日写给迪特斯，“拜托了。另外，我已把你列为周三在华盛顿特区听证会上的特别嘉宾……我可以安排你与相关事务负责人会面，请尽快回复我。”她还提到这笔付款时说道：“亲爱的，拜托你今天一定要帮我办成这件事。”仅仅几个月后，吉尔福伊尔就在9月份正式获任大使。
“You could just send it here. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express, that’s all that will show,” Guilfoyle wrote to Deters on July 3, 2025. “Please. And I have you down as one of my special guests for my hearing in DC on Wednesday.... I can get you in for a meeting on the matter we discussed please get back to me ASAP.”“Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” she said, referring to the payment. Guilfoyle was confirmed as ambassador just months later in September.
Deters声称，尽管他和Guilfoyle在数月间互发短信并互许承诺（“我会永远做你的特朗普骑手，永不离弃，”她曾对他说），但他从未给她汇过钱。
Deters claimed that while he and Guilfoyle exchanged texts and promises for months (“I will be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever,” she told him at one point), he never sent her any money.
Deters就是那位曾参加肯塔基州共和党州长竞选的前候选人，他主持了已停办的肯塔基自由节。Guilfoyle是该活动最早的明星之一，Deters从2020年起支付她30万美元在现场演讲。2024年，Deters请求Guilfoyle帮助他对阿布巴克尔·阿提克·杜拉尼（Abubakar Atiq Durrani）提出引渡请求。杜拉尼是一名俄亥俄州医生，因在儿童身上进行不必要的脊柱手术而被指控诈骗保险公司，随后逃往巴基斯坦。
Deters is the same former Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate who hosts the new defunct Freedom Fest in Kentucky. Guilfoyle was one of the event’s earliest headliners, as Deters paid her $300,000 to speak there starting in 2020. In 2024, Deters sought out Guilfoyle’s help with an extradition request for Abubakar Atiq Durrani, an Ohio doctor who fled to Pakistan after he was charged with defrauding insurers with unnecessary spinal surgeries on kids.
Deters代表这些孩子的家庭，但在与杜拉尼的医疗事故保险公司MedPro交涉时遇到阻碍，MedPro认为自己对杜拉尼的行为不负责任。相反，MedPro起诉Deters，指控他“策划了一场有计划的取款方案”，“最初通过滥用诉讼，随后通过暴力、谋杀威胁以及对公司CEO的敲诈勒索进行赤裸裸的敲诈”。Deters否认这些指控，并因此联系了Guilfoyle，甚至告诉她愿意支付100万美元，让她帮他争取在塔克·卡尔森节目上露面，以引起对其处境的关注。
Deters, who was representing the families of the children, ran into a problem with Durrani’s malpractice insurer, MedPro, which held it wasn’t liable for his actions. MedPro instead sued Deters for “a calculated scheme to extract payments” from the company, “at first through abusive litigation, and by ultimately outright extortion through threats of violence and murder and by blackmail against the company’s CEO.”The accusations—which Deters denies—led him to reach out to Guilfoyle, even telling her he’d pay her $1 million to get him a spot on Tucker Carlson’s show to draw attention to his situation.
自从她被提名为大使后，Guilfoyle和Deters的联系变得更加频繁。
Guilfoyle and Deters began to speak more frequently after her nomination as ambassador.
“埃里克，我真希望你能别再把这些东西到处张贴了，”吉尔夫奥伊尔在给德特尔斯的一条信息中写道。“这真的很危险……你完全可以直接给我打电话。”她还责备他，因为他曾在她播客中向一位制作人谈论他们之间的协议，她说：“我们和你之间明明有私下安排，你现在却抄送一位制作人讨论金钱问题，这简直令人难以置信……不要说我们有任何协议。你简直是个噩梦，会让我失去大使职位，别再写了。”
“Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,” Guilfoyle wrote in one message to Deters. It’s really dangerous … and you could simply just call me on signal.”She even chastised him for speaking to a producer on her podcast about their deal, saying that “it’s unbelievable when we have a private arrangement with you that you would now CC a producer talking about money.... Do not say we have any arrangement. What a nightmare you’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing.”
德特尔斯声称他最终并未向吉尔夫奥伊尔支付任何款项，并且“没有得到任何好处”。吉尔夫奥伊尔的律师否认她与德特尔斯之间的信息是真实的，并声称，如果有的话，他反而欠她已停办的“自由节”的演讲费。德特尔斯对此予以否认。
Deters claims he didn’t end up making any payments to Guilfoyle and had “not received one favor.”Guilfoyle’s attorneys deny that the messages between her and Deters are legitimate, and claim that if anything he owed her speaking fees from his defunct Freedom Fest. Deters denies that.
这是一个重大的道德问题，美国政府很可能会竭力忽视它，就像国务卿马可·鲁比奥在前往希腊之前所做的那样。
This is a massive ethics question that the administration will likely try its hardest to ignore, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio did before leaving for Greece.
蒂娜·彼得斯于6月26日在科罗拉多州卡斯勒洛克举行的“落基山之声自由节”上发言。
Tina Peters speaks during the Rocky Mountain Voice Freedom Festival in Castle Rock, Colorado, on June 26.
特朗普总统周一与被判有罪的选举否认者蒂娜·彼得斯的会面，引发了一些人对即将到来的中期选举中令人不安的计划表示担忧。
President Trump’s meeting with convicted election denier Tina Peters on Monday concerned some disturbing plans for the upcoming midterm elections.
据科罗拉多州9新闻台的凯尔·克拉克报道，彼得斯的律师彼得·蒂克廷表示，她曾提议特朗普从全国各地收缴选票并进行人工重新计票。
Peter Ticktin, Peters’s attorney, said that she proposed that Trump seize ballots from across the country and conduct a hand recount, reports Kyle Clark of Colorado’s 9 News.
“这是一个不错的计划，而且我认为类似的事情很可能真的会发生，”蒂克廷在科罗拉多州对右翼播客主持人乔·奥尔特曼说道。“如果我们遭遇这种灾难，一切失控，投票结果混乱不堪，参议员选举又出现足以罢免总统和副总统的局势，在这种噩梦成真时，唐纳德·特朗普绝不会再次放弃控制权。”最新消息：据称，科罗拉多州的蒂娜·彼得斯正在与特朗普总统会面，讨论一项选举“计划”。
“It’s a good plan, and I do think that something like that is probably going to happen,” Ticktin said to right-wing podcaster Joe Oltmann in Colorado. “In the event that we have this kind of disaster, and everything goes wrong, and the vote is crazy, and the senatorial races put it up there to remove the president and the vice president, in that nightmare, should it come true, Donald Trump is not going to relinquish control again.”NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war Oltmann has called for the state’s top Democrats to be executed in the past, and said on the podcast that violence is going to be necessary.
她的律师表示，该计划涉及在全国范围内没收选票，并探讨了可能爆发内战时的策略。奥尔特曼过去曾呼吁处决该州最高层的民主党人，并在播客中表示暴力将是必要的。蒂克廷在播客中称，如果美国陷入内战，特朗普应该掌控国家的武器。
Ticktin said on the podcast that Trump should be in control of America’s weapons if the country descends into civil war.
“因此，他没有任何可失去的，国家也没有任何可失去的。如果我们无论如何都要爆发内战，那么最好由我们一方掌控武装力量，而不是实行军事管制，”蒂克廷说道。
“So, he’s got nothing to lose, the nation has nothing to lose, it’s better if we’re going to have a civil war of any sort that it would be martial law with our side in control of the armaments,” Ticktin said.
通常，这类猜测会被视为边缘群体的阴谋论而不予理会。但彼得斯却受邀前往白宫会面，而且由于特朗普向科罗拉多州民主党籍州长贾里德·波利斯施压，她因干预选举而被判的监禁刑期也被减刑了。特朗普迫切希望避免民主党在中期选举后掌控国会，似乎愿意接受各种疯狂的设想。
Normally, this kind of speculation would be written off as a conspiracy theory from the fringe. But Peters was invited to the White House for a meeting, and had her prison sentence for election tampering commuted after Trump put pressure on Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis. Trump is desperate to avoid a Democratic takeover of Congress after the midterms, and seems willing to entertain all kinds of crazy ideas.
特朗普因使用纳税人资金播放宣传内容而遭起诉 民主党全国委员会指控唐纳德·特朗普违反美国反宣传法。
Trump Hit With Lawsuit for Using Taxpayer Money to Air Propaganda The DNC has accused Donald Trump of breaking U.S. anti-propaganda law.
亚历克斯·沃布勒夫斯基/法新社/盖蒂图片社 民主党全国委员会于周三起诉特朗普政府，指控近期播出的、宣传总统政治议程的电视节目由纳税人出资，因此违反了美国宣传法。
Alex WROBLEWSKI/AFP/Getty Images The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration Wednesday, alleging that recent TV s espousing the president’s political agenda were funded by taxpayers and thus violated U.S. propaganda law.
这份长达31页的诉状提交至哥伦比亚特区美国地区法院，指控唐纳德·特朗普亲自主导了该计划。民主党全国委员会已请求法院介入这一阴谋，以叫停相关广告以及支撑其制作和广泛传播的公共资金流。
The 31-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses Donald Trump of personally directing the s. The DNC has asked the court to intervene in the scheme to stop the ads and the flow of public funds that has buoyed their creation and proliferation.
据广告追踪机构AdImpact称，自9月以来，用于支持特朗普的广告已耗资超过1200万美元美国政府资金。美联社上个月底报道，美国国土安全部此前已为这笔备受质疑的支出预留了2000万美元。
More than $12 million in government funds have been spent on the pro-Trump ads since September, according to the ad-tracking service AdImpact. The Department of Homeland Security had previously set aside $20 million for the dubious expenditure, the Associated Press reported late last month.
该政府最终制作了四则颂扬特朗普的广告，将这位“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）运动的领袖塑造成美国抵抗运动的核心人物。其中一则时长30秒的广告配上了JMSN乐队的歌曲《Love Me》，将特朗普描绘为美国力量与抵抗外国敌人的堡垒。
The administration ultimately created four adverts to glorify Trump, framing the MAGA leader as a centerpiece of American resistance. One 30-second commercial, set to JMSN’s track “Love Me,” framed Trump as the bastion of American strength and resistance against foreign foes.
广告中反复播放着“love me”的副歌，同时特朗普的影像在屏幕上快速闪过，并出现文字重申特朗普的言论：“美国绝不会成为一个共产主义国家。”视频结尾处还能听到UFC主席丹娜·怀特的声音：“他是我见过最坚韧、最具毅力的人，没有任何力量能阻止他为这个他深爱的国家奋不顾身地奋斗。”
The refrain, “love me,” was played repeatedly while images of Trump flashed across the screen, and text appeared reiterating Trump’s claim that “America will never be a communist country.”“He is the toughest, most resilient person that I’ve ever met and nothing is going to stop him from fighting so hard for the country that he’s lost,” UFC President Dana White can be heard saying towards the end of the clip.
这四则广告均附有一则不同寻常的免责声明：“由美国政府付费。”其中一则似乎使用了特朗普2024年总统竞选广告中的画面。
All four ads were accompanied by an unusual disclaimer: “Paid for by the U.S. government.”One appeared to use footage from a 2024 spot for Trump’s presidential campaign.
周一，特朗普几乎直接承认了这一安排。面对公众的强烈反对，他在Truth Social上发帖称，今后将不再使用纳税人的资金投放这些广告。
Trump practically confessed to the arrangement on Monday, relenting to public backlash via a Truth Social post in which he said he would no longer use taxpayer money on the adverts.
“激进左派对我投放广告感到不满，我认为这是一种对我们伟大美国的积极宣传，并且用美国的钱来支付，”特朗普写道。“这是一件相当标准的事，但与其这么做，虽然没有什么能让他们高兴，我决定自行支付爱国广告等费用，并使用我为MAGA公司筹集的资金。”然而，他并未提及是否会用自己的金库来补偿美国人民。
“The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money,” Trump wrote. “This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc.” He did not, however, mention if he would use his coffers to reimburse the American people.
在周二白宫外接受记者采访时，特朗普坚持认为“这些广告真的很好”，是“对国家的宣传”，而不是对他个人的宣传。
Speaking with reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, Trump insisted that “the ads were really good” and a “promotion for the country” rather than a promotion of himself.
副总统JD·范斯也为这些商业广告辩护，周一声称这些信息“不是党派性的”。“我们正在讲述一个关于美国有多伟大的故事，”范斯说。
Vice President JD Vance also defended the commercials, claiming on Monday that the messaging was “not partisan.”“We’re trying to tell a story about how great the United States of America is,” Vance said.
然而，民主党全国委员会并不同意。在他们的投诉中，这个政治委员会认为这些“政治宣传广告”是试图恢复特朗普“历史性低迷的支持率”，并避免在2026年中期选举中出现大规模的共和党失败。该组织指出，这些广告遵循了特朗普在中期选举周期中反复试图将自己置于中心位置的更广泛行为模式，实际上把2026年选举日变成了对其人气的另一场公投。
The DNC, however, disagreed. In their complaint, the political committee argued that the “political propaganda ads” were an attempt to resuscitate Trump’s “historically low approval ratings and avoid widespread Republican defeats in the 2026 midterm election.”The ads, according to the group, followed a broader pattern of behavior in which Trump has repeatedly attempted to center himself in the midterm cycle, effectively turning Election Day 2026 into another referendum on his popularity.
最近几个月，特朗普试图用5000美元的补贴（如果共和党获胜）贿赂美国人，将自己置于前所未有的为期两天的共和党中期大会中心，并反复指示选民把他当作候选人来投票。
In recent months, Trump has attempted to bribe Americans with a $5,000 handout (if Republicans win), made himself the center of an unprecedented two-day Republican midterm convention, and repeatedly instructed voters to act as if he’s on the ballot.
然而，所有这些举动只会削弱共和党的胜算，因为随着伊朗战争的拖延和生活成本的上升，对特朗普的怨恨日益加深。
Yet all of those things have only proved to hurt Republican odds, as resentment grows against Trump due to the dragging Iran war and the rising cost of living.