华盛顿圆桌会议探讨了唐纳德·特朗普屡禁不止的腐败行为将如何影响选举结果。
The Washington Roundtable weighs in on how Donald Trump’s rampant corruption will play out at the polls.
虽然华盛顿的普遍观点是腐败行为并不会左右选民的选择，但民主党仍斥资超过3亿美元投放广告，将总统谋取私利的行为描述为对全体民众的“额外负担”。
Although conventional wisdom in Washington suggests that graft doesn’t move voters, Democrats have nonetheless spent more than three hundred million dollars on ads that portray the President’s self-enrichment as a tax on everyone else.
联邦贸易委员会前委员丽贝卡·斯劳特也参与了讨论，她分析了针对联邦政府腐败现象可采取的措施，并指出刑事起诉或许并非最有效的治理手段。斯劳特认为，政府必须设法让腐败行为给实施者带来高昂代价。
They are joined by a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, Rebecca Slaughter, who discusses what, if anything, can be done about corruption in the federal government, and why criminal prosecution may not be the most effective tool to combat it. Slaughter argues that officials must find ways to make corruption costly for those who engage in it.
尽管大多数美国人并不指望权贵们会为此承担后果，但她强调：“要改变这种印象……唯一的办法就是让他们付出代价。”
And though few Americans expect the powerful to face consequences, Slaughter says, “the only way to change that impression . . . is to start making people pay.”
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