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就在特朗普政府前所未有地突袭众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔（民主党-明尼苏达州）住宅仅几周之后，就在中期选举前几天，参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（民主党-纽约州）尚未曾公开为这位进步派民主党人辩护，以对抗这场赤裸裸的政治起诉。
Days after the Trump administration’s unprecedented raid of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minnesota) house just weeks before the midterm elections, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has not once publicly defended the progressive Democrat against the naked political prosecution.
作为全国最有影响力的领导人之一的民主党领袖——既没有向媒体发表声明，也没有通过他的社交媒体渠道就周一国土安全部调查局的突袭发表评论，也没有进行任何媒体露面来谈论此事。而批评者已将此事描述为美国民主状况的五级警报。
The Democratic leader — one of the most powerful in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the Homeland Security Investigations raid on Monday, nor has he done any media appearances to comment on the issue, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.
尽管有报道本周揭露，特朗普政府正在开展一项跨部门行动，旨在取消奥马尔的国籍并将其驱逐出境。此次突袭的时机也前所未有——发生在中期选举前仅22天，而奥马尔正在这些选举中参选。这些选举对舒默而言至关重要，因为它们将决定民主党是否能够获得权力，以履行他们追究特朗普日益法西斯式专制主义责任的承诺。
This is despite the fact that the Trump administration is waging an inter-agency effort to denaturalize and deport Omar, as reports have uncovered this week. The timing of the raid is also unprecedented, coming just 22 days before the midterm elections in which Omar is on the ballot; these elections should be of grave import to Schumer, since they’ll determine whether or not Democrats will have the power to follow through on their pledges to hold Donald Trump accountable for his escalating fascist authoritarianism.
其他顶级民主党人已经为奥马尔发声——但即使这些表态，相较于袭击的规模，也显得过于克制。
Other top Democrats have spoken out in defense of Omar — but even those statements have been muted in relation to the magnitude of the attacks.
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（民主党-纽约州）及其他众议院民主党领袖在突袭之后发表了一份简短声明，称此事“令人深感不安”，并表示这“提出了严肃问题”，涉及特朗普政府“将联邦政府武器化”。然而，该声明中唯一提到后果的部分是承诺民主党“将对国土安全部和司法部的滥用职权行为进行全面追责”。声明中未说明这种“追责”具体包括什么。
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) and other House Democratic leaders issued a short statement following the raid that called it “deeply disturbing” and said that it “raises serious questions” about the Trump administration’s “weaponization of the federal government.”The only mention of consequences in the statement, however, is a promise that the Democrats “will deliver full accountability for the rogue abuse of power from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice.”There is no mention of what that “accountability” would entail.
杰弗里斯还在MS NOW的一次关于选举的采访中谈及此事。在整个11分钟的采访过程中，杰弗里斯一次也没有提到对奥马尔的攻击——直到采访最后被问及此事时才提及。在那个回答中，他仅表示司法部（DOJ）“将被追责”，并列举了一长串特朗普试图起诉的其他人，包括联邦储备委员会共和党成员杰罗姆·鲍威尔。
Jeffries also addressed the issue in an interview on MS NOW about the elections. Throughout the 11-minute interview, Jeffries doesn’t bring up the attacks on Omar once — until he’s asked about them at the very end. In that answer, he simply says that the Department of Justice (DOJ) “is going to be held accountable” and rattles off a list of other people that Trump has tried to prosecute, including Republican Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell.
民主党方面也一直相对沉默。党主席肯·马丁关于突袭的声明非常简短，仅称这是“特朗普政府的新低”。相比之下，远右翼前众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林关于突袭的帖子要长得多，她表示自己和奥马尔在信念上“相去甚远”，但称此次突袭是对真实问题的转移，如汽油和健康保险价格：“人们对这种废话已经厌倦透顶，”格林说。
The Democratic Party has also been relatively mum. Chair Ken Martin’s statement about the raid was short, simply calling it a “new low for the Trump administration.”By contrast, it was shorter than the post about the raid by far right former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said that she and Omar are “far apart” on beliefs but called the raid a distraction from real issues like gas and health insurance prices: “People are so sick and tired of the bullshit,” Greene said.
尽管事实是民主党有许多途径来为奥马尔辩护。《华盛顿邮报》周四报道称，特朗普政府官员早在2019年就曾试图搜查奥马尔的移民记录，以寻找剥夺她公民身份的证据，但未能找到足够证据以启动全面调查。
This is despite the fact that Democrats have many avenues to defend Omar. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Trump administration officials had already tried to search Omar’s immigration records for evidence to take away her citizenship in 2019, but found insufficient evidence to mount a full investigation.
没有任何一位民主党高层的声明将特朗普对奥马尔的攻击公开称为种族主义和反伊斯兰，尽管特朗普多年来一直称奥马尔和其他索马里人为“垃圾”。与此同时，一群知名的伦理律师表示，他们认为司法部（DOJ）和国土安全部（DHS）的行为实际上是违法的。这些律师包括前白宫法律顾问，他们表示，这次突袭违反了《哈奇法案》，原因是其与选举的时间关系。
None of the top Democrats’ statements named Trump’s attacks on Omar as openly racist and Islamophobic, despite Trump having called Omar and other Somalis “garbage” for years. Meanwhile, a group of prominent ethics lawyers have said that they believe the actions of the DOJ and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were actually illegal. The lawyers, including former counsels to the White House, said that the raid was a violation of the Hatch Act because of its timing in relation to the election.
律师们写道：“司法部和国土安全部在此时此刻、以这些所谓的理由发动这次突袭的决定，无法解释——除非是出于政治动机，利用权力影响明尼苏达州的国会选举，违反《哈奇法案》。”
“DOJ and DHS’s decision to instigate this raid at this very moment and for these alleged reasons is unexplainable — except for as a politically motivated use of power to influence the Minnesota congressional election in violation of the Hatch Act,” the lawyers wrote.
批评人士表示，舒默的沉默可能源于一个简单事实：他并不与奥马尔结盟，尽管两人同属一个党派。奥马尔是以色列的直言不讳的批评者；而舒默是这个种族灭绝国家的坚定支持者。2019年，当奥马尔批评亲以色列游说团体AIPAC——这个在华盛顿数十年来最具影响力的团体之一——时，舒默和时任众议院议长南希·佩洛西（加利福尼亚州民主党人）一起攻击奥马尔，迫使她道歉，并将她诬蔑为反犹太主义者。
Critics say that Schumer’s silence may be explained by the simple fact that he does not ally himself with Omar, despite sharing a party with her. Omar is a vocal critic of Israel; Schumer is a vehement supporter of the genocidal state. In 2019, when Omar criticized the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC — one of the most powerful groups in Washington for decades — Schumer and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) piled on to Omar, forcing her to apologize and smearing her as an antisemite.
《国家》杂志的吉特·希尔写道：“舒默的沉默并不令人意外。”他表示：“因为奥马尔一直直言不讳地批评以色列和以色列游说集团，像舒默这样的建制派民主党人往往与她保持距离。”奥马尔的其他进步观点也可能解释了媒体对这些攻击的相对沉默。媒体评论员亚当·约翰逊将主流媒体对奥马尔突袭事件的报道与特朗普对保守派人物约翰·博尔顿的突袭进行了对比，后者引发了大量尖锐的专栏文章和评论文章。
“Schumer’s silence is hardly surprising,” wrote Jeet Heer for The Nation. “Because Omar has been outspoken in her criticism of Israel and the Israel lobby, establishment Democrats such as Schumer have often kept their distance from her.”This and Omar’s other progressive viewpoints may also explain the relative media silence about the attacks. Media critic Adam Johnson compared legacy media’s coverage of the Omar raid to Trump’s raid on conservative John Bolton, which spawned an explosion of scathing columns and opinion pieces.
相比之下，约翰逊指出，对奥马尔住宅的突袭几乎没有在主流企业媒体引发任何评论文章或专栏——只有《大西洋月刊》的一篇文章试图两边都说。
By contrast, Johnson noted, the raid of Omar’s home has scarcely prompted any op-eds or columns in the legacy corporate media — only an Atlantic article that argued for both sides.
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