白宫法律顾问办公室周一致信《政治报》（Politico），警告该媒体须在 48 小时内撤回或更正近期关于所谓员工内讧的报道，否则将面临未明确说明的后果。
The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories about alleged staff drama, or it would suffer unspecified consequences.
- 该最后期限将于周四到期。
• That deadline expires Thursday.
为何重要：白宫的这一要求恐将进一步升级其与《政治报》的紧张关系，更广泛地说，也将加剧与报道特朗普总统的白宫记者团的关系紧张。
Why it matters: The White House demand threatens to escalate already tense relations with Politico specifically and, more generally, the press corps that covers President Trump in Washington.
- 因总统不满其报道，《政治报》、CNN 和 MS NOW 已被禁止进入椭圆形办公室和“空军一号”采访。
• Politico, CNN, and MS NOW are already banned from covering Trump in the Oval Office and on Air Force One because the president does not like their coverage.
- 特朗普还禁止这三家媒体进入白宫场地，但一名法官于 10 月 13 日恢复了它们的进入权。
• Trump blocked all three outlets from the White House grounds as well, but a judge on Oct. 13 restored their access.
- CNN 周三威胁采取法律行动，以重获进入“空军一号”及陪同总统的电视台“联合采访团”的权限。
• CNN threatened legal action Wednesday to regain access to Air Force One and the "pool" of television networks that accompany the president.
深度聚焦：白宫法律顾问威尔·沙夫（Will Scharf）在致《政治报》的信中，点名了三篇涉及白宫幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯（Susie Wiles）的报道，称尽管高级助手甚至总统本人均已“公开记录在案地予以驳斥”或提供了相反证据，该媒体仍予刊发。
Zoom in: In his letter to Politico, White House Counsel Will Scharf singled out three stories concerning White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles despite "on-the-record refutations" or contrary evidence supplied by senior staff and even the president.
1) 10 月 15 日：一篇标题为“特朗普的‘冰山女王’遭遇炮火”的《政治报》早报（Playbook）报道称，特朗普正考虑替换怀尔斯。特朗普称其为“假新闻”。2) 10 月 16 日：《政治报》早报写道，前一天的报道引发了“恐慌”，且总统因此“大发雷霆”。白宫发言人称该报道“难以置信地愚蠢且虚假”。苏西·怀尔斯助推福克斯采访致新闻秘书离职 《政治报》暗示幕僚长让凯蒂·扎卡里亚（Katie Zacharia）在前一晚肖恩·汉尼提（Sean Hannity）的福克斯节目采访中注定失败。
1) Oct. 15: In a story headlined " Trump's ice maiden is under fire " Politico Playbook reported that Trump was considering a replacement for Wiles. Trump called it "fake news." 2) Oct. 16: Politico Playbook wrote that the prior day's story had caused a "freakout" and that the president "blew up" over it. A White House spokesman called it "unbelievably stupid and false." Susie Wiles helped set up Fox interview ahead of press secretary's exit " Politico insinuated the chief of staff set up Katie Zacharia to fail in a Sean Hannity interview on Fox the night before.
- 白宫和福克斯新闻均否认该报道。白宫官员在刊发前已向《政治报》提供短信记录，显示是扎卡里亚而非怀尔斯安排了该采访，《纽约邮报》（New York Post）次日对此进行了报道。
• The White House and Fox News denied the reporting. And White House officials provided text messages to Politico before publication showing Zacharia — not Wiles — set up the interview, which the New York Post reported the following day.
- “Politico 尚未更正或撤回其虚假报道。相反，一名 Politico 记者证实，Politico 拒绝将怀尔斯女士从报道中移除，因为她是该报道的‘切入点’——这至少可以说是一个在法律上棘手且令人震惊的承认，”沙夫写道。
• "Politico has not corrected or retracted its false reporting. Instead, a Politico reporter confirmed that Politico declined to remove Ms. Wiles from the story because she was the 'hook' for the story — a legally fraught and alarming admission to say the least," Scharf wrote. What they're saying:
他们怎么说：沙夫写道：“新闻自由不是免除职业问责的特权。因此，我要求 Politico 立即更正或撤回这些出版物，向美国总统和怀尔斯女士公开且显著地道歉，并从你们的数字档案中删除虚假报道。”
Scharf wrote that "freedom of the press is not a professional exemption from accountability. I therefore demand that Politico immediately correct or retract these publications, issue a prominent and public apology to the President of the United States and to Ms. Wiles, and remove the false reporting from your digital archives."
- 否则，他写道，白宫将对“Politico 与白宫的关系进行立即审查，当然，也会考虑所有其他适当且可用的法律补救措施。”
• Otherwise, he wrote, the White House would conduct an "immediate review of Politico's relationship with the White House, and, of course, consideration of all other appropriate and available legal remedies."
- Politico 发言人未回复置评请求。
• A Politico spokesperson did not return a message seeking comment.
- 白宫官员指责 Politico 的新管理层推动其记者从事沙夫所谓的“兜售八卦”。
• White House officials fault the new management at Politico for pushing its reporters to engage in what Scharf called "gossip-peddling."
- 这封信是致全球总编辑乔纳森·格林伯格的。特朗普与新闻界一直保持着爱恨交织的关系。他接受记者提问的问答环节远多于任何一位近任总统，但他很容易发怒，并因不喜欢的报道而威胁禁止记者采访。
• The letter was addressed to global editor in chief Jonathan Greenberger. Trump has had an ongoing love-hate relationship with the press. He is available to reporters for far more question-and-answer sessions than any recent president, but he's quick to anger and threaten press bans for coverage he doesn't like.
- 第二任期伊始，特朗普因美联社拒绝将墨西哥湾称为“美国湾”，而禁止其进入椭圆形办公室和空军一号采访。几个月后，一名联邦法官恢复了美联社的采访权限。
• Early in his second term, Trump banned the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One access after it balked at calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. A federal judge reinstated AP's access months later.
- 《纽约时报》本周报道称，特朗普曾考虑将记者完全从詹姆斯·S·布雷迪新闻发布室移走，并在那里建一个游泳池。
• The New York Times reported this week that Trump has mused about removing the press entirely from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and building a swimming pool there.
后续：沙夫拒绝具体说明《政治报》将面临什么后果，但一名白宫官员表示“所有选项都在考虑之中”，并形容特朗普的法律顾问“异常愤怒”。• 特朗普极其热衷于与媒体组织打官司，顾问们表示，他提起诉讼的意愿并未减弱。
What's next: Scharf would not specify what consequences Politico faces, but a White House official said "all options are on the table" and described Trump's counsel as "uncharacteristically enraged." • Trump is highly litigious with media organizations and, advisers say, his appetite for launching lawsuits hasn't diminished.
- 特朗普白宫之外的一些顾问注意到，政府官员可能正在暗示另一条攻击《政治报》的途径，即将其定性为恶意外国影响，因为它由德国公司阿克塞尔·施普林格集团所有。
• Some advisers outside of the Trump White House noticed that administration officials may be telegraphing another avenue to attack Politico as a malign foreign influence because it's owned by a German company, Axel Springer.
- “《政治报》是一个旨在干预美国政治、并以虚假信息和错误信息干预我们选举的外国行动，”白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张周六在X上写道。
• "Politico is a foreign-op designed to interfere in American politics and meddle in our elections with disinformation and misinformation," White House Communications Director Steven Cheung wrote on X Saturday.