密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）表示，他支持参议员埃莉莎·斯洛特金（Elissa Slotkin）。斯洛特金最近发表了一番言论，引发了共和党的强烈不满——她建议年轻专业人士重新考虑是否愿意为特朗普政府工作。在周三接受《The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent》电台节目采访时，埃尔-赛义德指责共和党人试图利用斯洛特金的言论来制造争议。
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed (D) is standing by Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) after the lawmaker sparked the GOP's ire with a recent comment that she wants young professionals to rethink accepting a job with the Trump administration. In a Wednesday radio interview with “The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent,” El-Sayed accused Republicans of attempting to “manufacture” a controversial moment over Slotkin’s remark. “The way that Donald Trump has wound himself around the justice system is frankly unprecedented. It’s ugly and it’s antidemocratic,” the Democratic nominee said.
“唐纳德·特朗普对司法系统的干预行为确实是前所未有的，这种行为既丑陋又不民主，”这位民主党候选人说道。“因此，当共和党人开始认真对待特朗普的所作所为时，我也会认真对待他们的反应；但实际上，他们根本不是认真的人。”埃尔-赛义德正在参加这场备受关注的中期选举，对手是前众议员迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）。
“And so I’ll take seriously what they’re up in arms about when they start taking themselves seriously around what Donald Trump is doing and every other congressional Republican just looks away,” El-Sayed continued, adding, “They’re not serious people.”The Democratic candidate is running in a closely watched midterm race against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) for Michigan’s open Senate seat.
本周，特朗普总统批评了斯洛特金的言论，称她在芝加哥大学的一次活动中的发言“将政府权力滥用于政治目的”。特朗普在周一白宫外对记者表示：“他们的行为确实会阻碍人们投身政治。民主党人就是把政府权力当成了政治工具。”在芝加哥的演讲中，斯洛特金表示她希望调查不仅特朗普本人，还包括那些帮助他实施不当行为的人。
President Trump this week criticized Slotkin over the comment she made during an event at the University of Chicago over the weekend and accused her of having “weaponized government.”“What they’re doing is really discouraging people from going into politics,” Trump said in comments to reporters outside the White House on Monday. “They weaponized the government, the Democrats — that’s what they’ve done.”In her remarks at the Chicago event, the senator expressed her interest in investigating not only the president, but also the “people who enabled him” for alleged crimes.
“我希望年轻人从学校毕业后能够思考：‘我应该为特朗普政府工作吗？听起来挺有趣……也许还能获得机会。’但我希望他们能意识到：‘那样只会给自己带来很多麻烦，所以我应该避免参与其中。’”斯洛特金补充道：“我就是要传递这样的警示信息。”
“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity,’” she said. “I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want. And so, let me avoid participating in that.’”“I want that deterrence message sent,” Slotkin added.
这位民主党人周一在社交平台X上发帖表示，她的观点是要警告年轻毕业生，“替[特朗普]犯罪的人将受到追究”。“很简单。如果你违法，就应该受到追究，”斯洛特金继续说道。“如果你在窃取纳税人的钱，并让特朗普总统或他的家人获利，那么你就应该受到追究。”特朗普的司法部去年秋天就斯洛特金和另外五名民主党议员参与一段有争议的视频一事对他们启动了刑事调查，视频中他们敦促军人违抗非法命令。大陪审团今年2月决定不起诉这些议员。
In a Monday post on the social platform X, the Democrat said her point was to warn young graduates that “there will be accountability for people who commit crimes on [Trump’s] behalf.”“It's simple. If you break the law, then you should be held accountable,” Slotkin continued. “If you are stealing taxpayer money and enriching President Trump or his family, then you should be held accountable.”Trump’s Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into Slotkin and five other Democratic lawmakers over their participation in a controversial video last fall, in which they urged military servicemembers to defy illegal orders. A grand jury declined to indict the lawmakers in February.