前明尼苏达州共和党州长蒂姆·波伦蒂周二上午承认，特朗普政府对众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔（民主党-明尼苏达州）的调查存在“政治层面”。联邦探员于10月12日搜查了这位民主党人的华盛顿特区住所，这是针对涉嫌在移民文件中实施欺诈和作虚假陈述的持续刑事调查的一部分。这次突击搜查引发了民主党的广泛谴责，他们指出此事发生在中期选举临近之际。
Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, acknowledged on Tuesday morning there was a “political layer” to the Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
“时机确实暗示了政治层面，”波伦蒂在CNN节目《CNN早间新闻》中告诉主持人凯特·博尔杜安。“当然，因为它是政治性的，并不意味着它一定没有根据。”他指出，签署搜查令的哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法官马修·夏博此前曾为民主党官员担任书记员。“我不知道这里面是否有实情，”波伦蒂说。“我们所有人都只能等到实际证据出炉。”
Federal agents searched the Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home on Oct. 12 as part of an ongoing criminal probe into allegations of fraud and false statements made in immigration paperwork. The raid sparked broad condemnation from Democrats, who pointed to the close proximity of the midterm elections.
奥马尔长期以来一直是特朗普总统及其政府的攻击目标，她在社交媒体发文谴责此次突击搜查是“政治恐吓”的企图。此外，博尔杜安追问波伦蒂关于总统反复称密歇根州参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（民主党）为“穆罕默德”一事。这位出生于密歇根州的民主党提名人的中间名是Mohamed——特朗普在周一于堪萨斯州举行的一次政治集会演讲中承认，他此前并不知情。
“The timing of it does suggest a political layer to it,” Pawlenty told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on “CNN This Morning. “Of course, because it’s political doesn’t mean it isn’t necessarily meritorious.” He noted that the judge who signed the search warrant, D.C. District Judge Matthew Sharbaugh, previously clerked for Democratic officials. “I don’t know whether there’s something real here or not,” Pawlenty said. “All of us are just going to have to wait until the actual evidence is produced.” Omar, a longtime target of President Trump and his administration, decried the raid as an attempt of “political intimidation” in a social media post. Additionally, Bolduan pressed Pawlenty about the president repeatedly calling Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) “Mohammed.” The Michigan-born Democratic nominee’s middle name is Mohamed — a fact Trump admitted during a speech at a Monday political rally in Kansas he did not know before. “Actually his middle name is Mohamed, if you can believe it. It’s true,” the president said. "The one good thing, if you call somebody from that part of the world Mohamed, you’re about 65 percent sure to get it right.”
“实际上他的中间名是Mohamed，如果你能相信的话。这是真的，”总统说。“唯一的好处是，如果你叫那个地区的人穆罕默德，你有大约65%的把握叫对。”埃尔-赛义德和其他民主党人指责特朗普利用他的穆斯林信仰攻击他。“他知道我的中间名是Abdul。他每天都这么说，”这位民主党提名人在社交媒体上写道，此前总统在Truth Social发文称他为“Mohammed El-Sayed”。“但他攻击的不只是我。
El-Sayed and other Democrats have accused Trump of using his Muslim faith against him. “He knows my middle name is Abdul. He says it everyday,” the Democratic nominee wrote on social media after the president called him “Mohammed El-Sayed” in a Truth Social post earlier this month. “But he’s not just attacking me. He’s attacking all of us,” El-Sayed added. “He thinks so low of us.”
“他在攻击我们所有人，”埃尔-赛义德补充道，“他对我们看得很低。”波伦蒂表示，他希望总统能集中精力解决人们对其政府正在进行的针对伊朗的军事行动以及冲突期间能源价格上涨的担忧。“我希望他能更多地关注当前的主要问题，那就是我们要如何应对经济中不断上涨的这些成本？”这位前州长说道。
Pawlenty expressed his desire to see the president home in on addressing concerns about his administration’s ongoing military operations against Iran and rising energy prices amid this conflict. “I wish he would focus more on the main issue at the moment, which is what are we going to do about these rising costs in our economy?” the former governor said.