周五，副总统万斯就一则报道发表看法。该报道称，美国驻希腊大使金伯利·吉尔福伊尔曾要求特朗普总统的一位捐助者减免债务，以此换取政治上的便利。万斯表示，如果“确有不当行为发生”，相关人士“必须承担后果”。他在前往家乡俄亥俄州视察时对记者说：“请注意，这些只是指控而已。我一直主张：我们不应在舆论法庭上审判任何人，而应在法律法庭上裁决。”
Vice President Vance weighed in Friday on reporting that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle asked one of President Trump’s donors for debt relief in exchange for political access, saying “people have to suffer the consequences” if “something bad happened.”“Look, these are allegations, and what I always say is: we don’t try people in the court of public opinion. We try people in a court of law,” Vance told reporters during a trip to his home state of Ohio.
《华尔街日报》周三率先报道称，吉尔福伊尔据称要求埃里克·德特斯向美国运通公司转账10万美元，且不留下任何书面记录；作为交换，她承诺帮助德特斯接触到政府高层官员。这一请求恰逢她在参议院外交委员会接受驻希腊大使任命听证会前夕。
The Wall Street Journal first reported Wednesday that Guilfoyle allegedly asked Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to American Express without a paper trail ahead and, in exchange, promised to help him reach senior administration officials. The request came just ahead of her confirmation hearing for the Greece ambassadorship before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
据《华尔街日报》以及后来被《希尔》杂志的转播合作伙伴NewsNation获得的通讯记录显示，德特斯断然拒绝了这一要求，称这样做会毁掉自己的婚姻。
Deters shot her down, saying it would cost him his marriage, according to messages shared with the Journal, and later obtained by The Hill’s broadcast partner, NewsNation.
万斯周五强调：“我们不能仅凭所谓两人之间的通讯内容，或者某一个人的说法，就断定‘金伯利·吉尔福伊尔有罪’。我认为这种做法是荒谬的。我们理应查明事实真相，弄清楚事情的本来面目。”他还补充道：“显然，如果真的发生了什么不当行为，相关人士就必须为此承担后果。”
“You don’t take messages that people allegedly had between one person or another, or one person’s story, and say, ‘Oh, because of that, Kimberly Guilfoyle is, is guilty.’ I think that’s absurd,” Vance said Friday. “Let’s actually see what the facts are. Let’s see what the truth is.”He added, “And obviously, if there was something bad that happened, then people have to suffer consequences for it.”
这起丑闻也让特朗普身边的顾问们受到更多审视。当被问及吉尔福伊尔的种种指控是否反映了“本届政府的运作方式”时，副总统断然回答：“绝对不是。”正在希腊进行外交访问的国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥同样对记者关于他是否仍信任吉尔福伊尔、以及她的行为是否引发担忧的问题避而不答。
The scandal has added scrutiny to advisers in Trump’s orbit. Asked whether the Guilfoyle allegations are “how the administration works,” the vice president said “certainly not.”Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on a diplomatic trip to Greece, also shrugged off reporters’ questions about whether he maintained confidence in Guilfoyle and whether her conduct raised any concerns.
鲁比奥说道：“我们的职责并非在任何人未经事先通知就向媒体泄露信息、且我们还没机会核实内容的情况下，就立刻做出回应。”
“Like, our job is not to respond every time someone decides to give the media something without any advance warning, without having any chance to look at it and see what’s in there,” Rubio said.
万斯周五在俄亥俄州进行中期选举投票，并参加集会支持共和党人，包括现任参议员乔恩·赫斯特德和共和党州长候选人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米，在“七叶树州”。
Vance was in Ohio on Friday to cast his midterm vote and take part in a rally to support Republicans, including incumbent Sen. Jon Husted and GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, in the Buckeye State.