- 四位高级政府官员和三位了解争议的内部人士称，前特朗普律师阿利娜·哈巴告诉总统，他的另一位高级顾问——前肯尼迪中心领袖里克·格雷内尔——未能存入她亿万富翁丈夫一年前向该中心捐赠的数百万美元款项。
has directed his White House counsel to examine explosive allegations dropped on him Friday in the Oval Office: • Former Trump attorney Alina Habba told the president that another one of his top advisers — former Kennedy Center leader Ric Grenell — failed to deposit a multimillion-dollar donation that her billionaire husband made to the center a year ago, according to four senior administration officials and three insiders briefed on the controversy.
- 格雷内尔否认了这些指控，称其为“荒谬”和“谎言”。
• Grenell denied the accusations as "absurd" and a "lie."
- 哈巴及其丈夫图尔汉·米尔顿通过发言人拒绝置评。
• Habba and her husband, Turhan Mildon, declined to comment through a spokesperson.
为何重要：这两位总统顶级顾问及前盟友之间的惊人争执，为人们提供了难得且尖锐的幕后视角，揭示了特朗普华盛顿中权力、影响力和金钱的交汇点。
Why it matters: The extraordinary row between the two top-tier presidential advisers and former allies provides a rare and acrimonious behind-the-scenes glimpse into the intersection of power, influence and money in Trump's Washington.
- 白宫消息人士称，哈巴告诉他们，有争议的捐款总价值近600万美元。
• The total value of the contribution in question: nearly $6 million, White House sources said Habba told them.
- 一位高级政府官员警告称：“这些仅是指控。我们不知道它们是否属实。这可能是一个误会。”
• A senior administration official cautioned that "these are only allegations. We don't know if they're true. This could be a misunderstanding."
- 另一人表示：“总统不想处理这件事。当然，他很担心。但如果真的有钱款丢失，这就是一个大问题。”
• Said another: "POTUS doesn't want to deal with this. Of course, he's concerned. But if there is missing money, this is a big, big problem."
仅几个月前格雷内尔曾是米尔顿和哈巴的朋友。但他在上个月由特朗普圈内官员、权力掮客和名流参加的1000万美元婚礼上明显缺席。
Just a few months ago Grenell was friends with Mildon and Habba. But he was notably absent from their $10 million wedding that was attended by Trump world officials, power brokers and luminaries last month.
- 一位了解冲突的特朗普圈内人士表示：“这是终极的MAGA家族血仇。”
• "This is the ultimate MAGA blood feud," said one Trump world insider with knowledge of the conflict.
聚焦：熟悉冲突的消息人士称，这场争端源于格雷内尔与米尔顿之间的友谊。两人在2025年初特朗普重返白宫后不久，在委内瑞拉问题上有共同利益。
Zoom in: The dispute grew out of a friendship between Grenell and Mildon, sources familiar with the conflict say. The men had mutual interests in Venezuela in early 2025, immediately after Trump returned to the White House.
- 作为特朗普特使的格雷内尔当时正在倡导美国与委内瑞拉领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗正常化关系。
• Grenell, as a Trump special envoy, was advocating for normalizing U.S. relations with Venezuela's leader at the time, Nicolas Maduro.
- Mildon 是土耳其国民，拥有广泛的委内瑞拉商业利益，这些利益受到国务卿马尔科·卢比奥针对马杜罗的强硬施压行动的威胁。
• Mildon, a Turkish national, had extensive Venezuelan business interests that were threatened by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's hardline pressure campaign targeting Maduro.
幕后细节： 2025年春天，格雷内尔说服米尔顿在一笔涉及美国公司哈巴的商业交易中，将一笔数百万美元的肯尼迪中心捐款计入总计1760万美元的一次性付款，哈巴向总统和白宫工作人员如此透露，两位消息人士称。
The intrigue: In the spring of 2025, Grenell persuaded Mildon to include a multimillion-dollar Kennedy Center donation in a lump-sum $17.6 million payment for a business deal involving a U.S. company, Habba told the president and White House staffers, two sources said.
- 哈巴的律师计划向白宫提供文件 — — 这些文件曾被Axios审阅 — — 以支持她关于格雷内尔在2025年春天向米尔顿索取肯尼迪中心捐款、并将其转给一家私人公司的指控。
• Habba's attorneys plan to give the White House documentation — reviewed by Axios — to support her allegations about Grenell soliciting a Kennedy Center donation from Mildon to go to a private company in the spring of 2025.
- “白宫法律顾问已要求提供文件和证明。到目前为止尚未收到任何材料，”一位白宫官员表示。
• "The White House counsel has asked for documents and proof. None has come so far," a White House official said.
格雷内尔称哈巴对特朗普的说法“荒谬。我从未要求向其他地方汇出一分钱，而假装那是用于肯尼迪中心的；我也从未在他那里收到任何付款。让他拿出证据来证明他说的话，而不是提出这些荒唐的指控。” • 当哈巴最初对格雷内尔提出指控时，她称肯尼迪中心的捐款总额为1700万美元，消息人士称。但随着她从丈夫那里了解到具体细节，她表示该捐款的实际金额为560万美元。
Grenell called the statements from Habba to Trump "Absurd. I've never asked for one cent to be sent somewhere else pretending it was for the Kennedy Center, and I've never received any payment from him at all. Make him give proof to what he is saying, not make these absurd allegations." • When Habba initially leveled her accusations against Grenell, she said the total amount of the Kennedy Center contribution was $17 million, the sources said. But as she learned of the specifics from her husband, she said the amount of the contribution in question was $5.6 million.
- “这很难追踪，因为数字一直在变化，”白宫官员表示。
• "This has been hard to track because numbers have changed," the White House official said.
在据称作出捐款之后米尔顿从未核实该款项是否已到账。他相信该款项已被记入账户，因为他在肯尼迪中心受到了像VIP捐赠者一样的待遇；在那里，他在2025年底遇到了哈巴，随后两人迅速发展恋情并结婚，上述消息人士称。
After making his alleged contribution Mildon never checked to see if it was deposited. He believed it had been credited because he was treated like a VIP donor at the Kennedy Center, where he met Habba in late 2025 before their whirlwind romance and marriage, those sources said. Friction point:
摩擦点：消息人士称，米尔顿和哈巴在与格雷内尔的商业关系破裂后发现了这一问题。格雷内尔在与卢比奥的内部行政权力斗争中失败，该斗争最终导致美国于1月3日抓获马杜罗并将其带到纽约市面临毒品指控。
Mildon and Habba, the sources said, discovered the issue after their business relationship frayed with Grenell, who lost an internal administration power struggle with Rubio that culminated in the U.S. seizing Maduro on Jan. 3 and taking him to New York City to face narcotics charges.
- 消息人士称，6月，马杜罗的继任者德尔西·罗德里格斯下达命令，撤销米尔顿旗下公司在委内瑞拉经营国有水泥厂的一份合同。《纽约时报》周一报道了此事。一位熟悉情况的消息人士本周夏天向Axios透露，她的这一行动部分是由于美国政府的施压。
• In June, Maduro's successor, Delcy Rodriguez, issued an order revoking one of Mildon's company contracts to operate state-owned cement plants in Venezuela, the New York Times reported Monday. A source familiar with the situation told Axios this summer that her action was partly due to the U.S. government's prodding.
- 《时报》报道，罗德里格斯随后在得知米尔顿与哈巴建立新关系后撤回了该命令，因为委内瑞拉领导人认为米尔顿因此获得了特朗普的支持。
• Rodriguez then reversed herself, the Times reported, after learning of Mildon's new relationship with Habba because the Venezuelan leader believed Mildon therefore had Trump's backing.
- 消息人士称，就在《时报》就米尔顿合同进行报道期间，哈巴发现米尔顿所谓的捐款从未到达肯尼迪中心。
• Amid the Times' reporting into Mildon's contract, Habba discovered that Mildon's supposed donation never made it to the Kennedy Center, the sources said. Inside the room:
房间内部：哈巴随后于上周五前往白宫，向总统说明情况。
Habba then headed to the White House last Friday to tell the president about the situation.
- 消息人士称，当她丈夫告诉她他并未直接将钱捐给肯尼迪中心时，阿莉娜“怒火冲天”。肯尼迪中心的记录显示，米尔顿实际上欠下一笔27万美元的承诺捐款。
• "Alina hit the roof" when her husband told her that he hadn't donated the money directly to the Kennedy Center, whose records indicate that Mildon actually owed a $270,000 pledged donation. • There was no record of Mildon giving anything close to $5.6 million, officials said.
- 官员称，没有任何记录显示米尔顿曾捐赠接近560万美元。记录显示，米尔顿周二向肯尼迪中心支付了27万美元。
Mildon on Tuesday paid the $270,000, records show, to the Kennedy Center. In partial confirmation of Habba's story
对哈巴说法的部分证实肯尼迪中心员工称，去年年底曾寻找米尔顿的捐款——当时认为是600万美元——但未找到，一位官员表示。
Kennedy Center staff reported that late last year there was a search for Mildon's contribution — then thought to be $6 million — but that it couldn't be found, an official said.
- 但当时负责肯尼迪中心财务的丽莎·戴尔表示，她账簿中仅与米尔顿相关的一条记录显示他欠款27万美元。“没有关于600万美元的记录，”她对Axios说。“我肯定会听说的。”
• But Lisa Dale, who handled finances for the Kennedy Center then, said the only record in her books connected to Mildon showed he owed $270,000. "There was nothing about $6 million," she told Axios. "I would have heard about that."
背景：哈巴和格雷内尔的渊源可追溯至特朗普的第一届政府。
Context: Habba and Grenell trace their roots to Trump's first administration.
- 格雷内尔曾是特朗普驻德国大使，随后担任国家情报总监代理。哈巴曾是特朗普的私人律师，并在本届任期内短暂担任新泽西州美国检察官。
• Grenell was Trump's ambassador to Germany and then his acting director of national intelligence. Habba was Trump's private attorney and briefly was U.S. attorney in New Jersey during this term. Between the lines:
言之有物：肯尼迪中心一直是特朗普的心头之痛，因他试图将自己的名字刻在建筑物上以及筹款困难而备受争议。
The Kennedy Center has been an ongoing sore spot for Trump, beset by controversy over his efforts to put his name on the building and fundraising woes.
- 如果哈巴关于资金失踪的指控属实，这对特朗普而言可能尤为令人恼火，因为他将该中心及其筹款工作视为个人事务。
• If Habba's allegations of missing money are true, it could prove particularly galling to Trump, who views the center and its fundraising personally.
- 了解特朗普思维的人表示，他尤其反感那些利用他的名字或滥用他所赋予职位的人。他周二解除希腊大使金伯利·吉尔福耶职务的决定，正是这一点的最新体现。
• Those who know the president's thinking say he is particularly disapproving of people who use his name or misuse positions he has given them. His dismissal Tuesday of Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle was the latest reminder of that.
- 两位特朗普圈内的顶级人物卷入如此激烈的 feud，进一步增加了局面的复杂性。
• Two top Trump world figures being engaged in such a bitter feud adds to the complexity.
- “没有人想站在阿利娜·哈巴和里克·格雷内尔开战的中间，”一位官员表示。
• "Nobody wants to get in the middle of Alina Habba and Ric Grenell going to war," one official said.