
已故共和党参议员长期以来在涉及LGBTQ权利的投票中持反对立场。
The late Republican senator had a long history of voting against LGBTQ rights.
参议员林赛·格雷厄姆 Kevin Dietsch/盖蒂图片社 三名男性陪侍声称曾与已故共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆发生性关系——其中一人称他在年仅17岁时便与格雷厄姆发生了关系。
Senator Lindsey Graham Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Three male escorts have claimed that they had sex with the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham—with one engaging in relations with him when he was just 17.
这三名男子出现在《青年土耳其人》制作的一部纪录片中,该片制作耗时一年。格雷厄姆在其漫长的任期内是最保守、最反LGBTQ的参议员之一,直到去世那一天,仍深受关于其所谓同性恋倾向传闻的困扰。
The men are featured in a documentary from The Young Turks, which they worked on for a year. Graham, who was one of the most conservative, anti-LGBTQ senators during his long tenure, had also been plagued by rumors about his alleged homosexuality until the day he died.
“他说的最后一句话是‘我需要这个’,”科里说。他在2005年因出柜被父母赶出家门后开始从事性工作。他详细描述了自己在华盛顿特区五月花酒店与格雷厄姆的首次见面。
“His last words to me were ‘I needed that,’” said Cory, who started as a sex worker after he was kicked out of his parents’ house for coming out in 2005. He detailed his first meeting with Graham at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
“他看起来非常职业。……他看起来比我习惯接触的客户阶层要高。……但最让我印象深刻的是他的口音。他有一种浓重、夸张的南方口音,我好多年没听过了,”科里说。他随后声称格雷厄姆喜欢被“羞辱”、被打屁股,并被称为“ faggot(同性恋贬义词)”。科里说格雷厄姆付给了他1500美元,《青年土耳其人》分享了多份行程记录,显示他和格雷厄姆曾在同一时间身处华盛顿特区。
“He was very professional looking.… He looked like a different class than I’m used to.… But the thing that stood out to me was his accent. He had this big, grandiose Southern accent that I hadn’t heard in years,” Cory said. He then claimed that Graham liked being “degraded,” spanked, and called “faggot.”Cory said Graham paid him $1,500, and The Young Turks shared various travel logs that place both him and Graham in D.C. at the same time.
突发新闻:男性陪侍透露为何站出来讲述关于林赛·格雷厄姆的故事。另外两名男子杰西和凯尔文讲述了与格雷厄姆类似的经历。“他是同性恋这并不完全是个秘密,”杰西说。
BREAKING: Male escort reveals why he came forward with his story about Lindsey Graham. Two other men, Jesse and Kelvin, had similar stories with Graham. “It’s not exactly a secret that he was a homosexual,” Jesse said.
凯尔文声称他于2001年在亚利桑那州认识格雷厄姆,当时他17岁。“他联系我,说听别人提起过我,说我是有人推荐的,”他说。“我问林赛什么事把他带到镇上。他说有个朋友要搞个大型活动,他会去参加。”那位朋友是参议员约翰·麦凯恩,格雷厄姆是去参加他的七四独立日派对的。
Kelvin alleges he met Graham in Arizona in 2001 when he was 17 years old. “He contacted me, said that he had heard about me from someone, that I came recommended,” he said. “I asked Lindsey what was bringing him into town. He said that a buddy of his was having some major event that he was gonna be there for.”That buddy was Senator John McCain, whom Graham was visiting for a Fourth of July party.
“当他正在提裤子时,他仔细打量了我一眼。就在那时,他有点吃惊,甚至可以说是惊恐万分。他用一种非常严厉、愤怒的眼神瞪着我,说道:‘你未满18岁,你是17岁,对吧?’” 格雷厄姆惊慌失措,但随后在凯尔文撒谎称自己刚满18岁后妥协了。他得到了120美元报酬。
“As he was adjusting his pants, he got a good look at me. And then that was when he was a bit startled, and almost terrified. He looked at me then with a very stern, angry scowl on his face, and he was like, ‘You’re under the age of 18, you’re 17 aren’t you?’”Graham panicked, but then gave in after Kelvin lied and told him he had just turned 18. He was paid $120.
林赛·格雷厄姆在处理极其敏感的国家安全材料期间,例行雇佣男性性工作者。其中包括一名未成年人,其故事在此首次被详细披露。与此同时,他的妹妹达琳以他的名义竞选,宣扬反LGBT言论。
Lindsey Graham was routinely hiring male sex workers while handling extremely sensitive national security material. Including a minor, whose story is detailed here for the first time. Meanwhile, his sister Darline runs on his name while campaigning on anti-LGBT rhetoric.
“所以林赛一辈子都在恐同,结果却在和未成年男妓发生性关系???” 自由派评论员哈里·西森在网上写道。
“So after spending his whole life being homophobic, Lindsey was having sex with underage male prostitutes???” liberal commentator Harry Sisson wrote online.
这是华盛顿流传最久的谣言之一。这与格雷厄姆去世后其他人所说的相符,并使格雷厄姆的每一票恐同投票、每一项恐同政策和每一句恐同言论——包括多次投票反对同性婚姻——显得更加令人鄙视。
This is one of the longest-running rumors in Washington. It matches what others said in the days after Graham’s death, and makes every one of Graham’s homophobic votes, policies, and comments—including voting against gay marriage multiple times—all the more despicable.
特朗普被命令接受质询,其起诉BBC的100亿美元诉讼陷入困境霍莉·亚当斯/彭博社/盖蒂图片社 一名联邦法官命令特朗普总统最迟于12月11日接受英国广播公司(BBC)律师的质询,特朗普正以诽谤为由起诉该台,索赔100亿美元。
Trump Ordered to Sit for Deposition as His BBC Lawsuit Blows Up Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC isn’t going to plan. Hollie Adams/Bloomberg/Getty Images A federal judge has ordered President Trump to sit for a deposition by December 11 with attorneys for the British Broadcasting Corporation, which he is suing for $10 billion for defamation.

据美联社报道,美国联邦治安法官恩乔利克·莱特周四裁定,特朗普不得拖延回答BBC律师的提问。总统曾以“国家重大事务”为由取消了原定于10月16日的质询。据BBC律师称,特朗普那天实际上正在佐治亚州为中期选举助选。
U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett ruled Thursday that Trump can’t delay answering questions from the BBC’s lawyers, the Associated Press reports. The president had canceled a planned October 16 deposition based on a “matter of national importance.”According to the BBC’s attorneys, Trump was in fact campaigning in Georgia for the midterms that day.
BBC律师查尔斯·托宾告诉美联社:“他正在参与党派政治,并将其置于出席取证之上。”他补充道,“在案件的取证期仅剩两个月之际,我们仍未能对原告进行取证。”
“He was participating in party politics and prioritized that over sitting for the deposition,” BBC attorney Charles Tobin told the AP, adding that “we still haven’t been able to depose the plaintiff” with only two months left in the discovery period of the case.
如果特朗普在截止日期前不出席取证,他可能面临包括驳回其诉讼在内的制裁。他唯一能获得的缓解是该诉讼的取证期延长至12月18日之后。
If Trump does not attend a deposition before the deadline, he could face sanctions including the dismissal of his case. The only reprieve he can get is if the lawsuit’s discovery period is extended beyond December 18.
特朗普指控BBC在一部关于2021年1月6日国会山骚乱的2024年纪录片中诽谤他,声称该媒体公司使用欺骗性剪辑,使其看起来像是在敦促支持者使用暴力推翻2020年大选结果。该网络否认特朗普的指控。
Trump is accusing the BBC of defaming him in a 2024 documentary about the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, claiming the media company used deceptive editing to make it appear that he was urging his supporters to use violence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The network denies Trump’s accusations.
但这位总统几乎可以肯定是在试图勒索该网络,这似乎适得其反。BBC律师正试图让他的死对头、前特别检察官杰克·史密斯作证,特朗普也一直在抗制传唤其子女和调查其财务的尝试。他本该知道最好别去招惹BBC,因为BBC由英国拥有电视的公众缴纳的许可费资助,不大可能与他达成和解。现在,他要么必须凭借根本不存在的优势赢下官司,要么彻底撤诉。
But the president was almost certainly trying to shake down the network, which appears to have backfired. BBC attorneys are trying to get his nemesis, former special counsel Jack Smith, to testify, and Trump has also fought attempts to subpoena his children and dig into his finances. He should have known better than to go after the BBC, which, being backed by licensing fees from the U.K.’s TV-owning public, wasn’t likely to settle with him. Now, he either has to win his case on its nonexistent merits, or drop it altogether.
特朗普在整场集会演讲中只是发出奇怪的声音 唐纳德·特朗普反复打断自己发出音效,甚至把普利策奖和诺贝尔奖搞混了。
Trump Spends Entire Rally Speech Just Making Weird Noises Donald Trump repeatedly interrupted himself to make sound effects, and even mixed up the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes.

Kent NISHIMURA/AFP/Getty Images 总统唐纳德·特朗普周三在南卡罗来纳州的集会上变得“语无伦次”。
Kent NISHIMURA/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump went post-verbal Wednesday at his rally in South Carolina.
在短短两个月内举行了20场竞选集会后,这位显而易见精疲力竭的80岁总统开始在其本已支离破碎的咆哮中插入疯狂的音效。
After holding 20 campaign rallies in the span of just two months, the evidently exhausted 80-year-old president has started to insert wild sound effects into his already incoherent rants.
一度,特朗普在句子中间似乎“短路”了。他没有说出前北卡罗来纳州州长妮基·黑利的名字,而是发出了一阵干呕声。
At one point, Trump appeared to short-circuit in the middle of a sentence. Instead of saying former North Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s name, the president produced a gagging sound.
“可以说,我任命那位州长——呃——的原因有90%”,特朗普说。“我任命了那位州长,把她调到联合国去了,因为我想让这位先生当上州长。”特朗普发出一声怪响,代替了妮基·黑利的名字。
“I’d say 90 percent of the reason I took the governor—EUHH,” Trump said. “I took the governor, I put her over at the United Nations, because I wanted this guy to be, I wanted the guy to become governor.”Trump makes a weird noise instead saying Nikki Haley’s name.
特朗普曾多次拼错或说错黑利的名字。最近,特朗普似乎忘记了他现身支持的候选人的名字。
Trump has repeatedly misspelled or misstated Haley’s name. Recently, Trump has appeared to forget the names of candidates he’s shown up to support.
随后,特朗普用他最喜欢的音效之一,描述了针对涉嫌贩毒船只的非法军事打击。“我们将经由海洋和大海流入的致命毒品流量降低了97%——砰,砰,砰。97%”,他说。特朗普已经重复这个数字几个月了,但五角大楼自己的声明并不支持这一说法。
Later, Trump described the unlawful military strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats using one of his favorite sound effects. “We brought the flow of deadly drugs coming in by ocean and sea down by 97—pew, pew, pew. Ninety-seven,” he said. Trump has been repeating this number for months, but the Pentagon’s own statements don’t support this claim.
随后似乎表明,特朗普已放弃假装霍尔木兹海峡的能源流动已恢复。他也放弃了试图说出这个名字。
It then appeared that Trump has given up on pretending that the flow of energy through the Strait of Hormuz has been restored. He’s also given up on trying to say it.
“哦,还有当伊朗完蛋时。砰”,特朗普说,比划着向下的流动。“石油”,他补充解释道。
“Oh, and when Iran ends. POW,” Trump said, miming a downward flow. “The oil,” he clarified.
特朗普长达近八个月的“六周战争”导致能源价格持续飙升,为共和党在即将到来的中期选举中制造了困境。总统那项解除对俄罗斯石油制裁的可怜协议也没有帮忙。特朗普继续承诺结束临近,但间接谈判仍在进行中。
Trump’s nearly eight-month “six-week war” against Iran has caused a sustained spike in energy prices, creating a quagmire for Republicans in the coming midterm elections. The president’s pathetic deal to lift sanctions on Russian oil hasn’t helped. Trump continues to promise that an end is near, but indirect negotiations are still ongoing.
很难不把这场最新集会看作一次接一次的羞辱时刻。在数千人面前演讲时,特朗普大发牢骚,想把大西洋改名为“特朗普洋”,坚持说他本该因写作获得普利策奖(他在搞混了他梦寐以求的诺贝尔和平奖后),为一名袭击嘘声者的集会参加者欢呼,并对参议员蒂姆·斯科特流露出贪婪的目光。
It’s hard not to view this latest rally as one humiliating moment after another. Speaking in front of thousands of people, Trump ranted about wanting to change the name of the Atlantic Ocean to “Trump Ocean,” insisted that he should’ve won the Pulitzer Prize for writing (after confusing it for his much-coveted Nobel Peace Prize), cheered on a rallygoer who assaulted a heckler, and leered at Senator Tim Scott, of all people.
JD·万斯彻底出丑,NFL球队无视他 只有一名球员在先跟万斯的儿子打过招呼后,才向副总统打招呼。
JD Vance Totally Humiliated as NFL Team Ignores Him Only one player acknowledged the vice president—after saying hi to Vance’s son.

关键事实:周三晚上,美国司法部副部长JD·万斯(JD Vance)原本计划与辛辛那提猛虎队(Cincinnati Bengals)的球员们进行一次“即兴的见面会”,但几乎所有球员都选择无视他的存在。万斯在更衣室外等待,只有进攻截锋德鲁·萨姆普尔(Drew Sample)与他的儿子击掌并与其握手。
Vice President JD Vance Jacquelyn Martin/Getty Images JD Vance was ghosted by practically every player on the Cincinnati Bengals football team during what he apparently believed would be a spontaneous meet and greet Wednesday evening. The vice president waited outside the locker room. Just about every team member looked at Vance and decided not to interact with him—save for tight end Drew Sample, who gave Vance’s son a fist bump. Sample then gave Vance a handshake.
这一事件再次引发了公众的强烈批评——这与今年早些时候FBI局长卡什·帕特尔(Kash Patel)类似的不愉快经历如出一辙:帕特尔在美军冰球队赢得奥运会金牌后突然出现在球队的更衣室里,随后被拍到在米兰的更衣室内狂饮啤酒,引发了全国性的争议(美国公众质疑这位情报部门负责人是否滥用纳税人的资金进行私人旅行)。
This is what TOTAL HUMILIATION looks like: JD Vance attempted to greet Cincinnati Bengals players in the locker room and got snubbed and ghosted by every single player except one. The entire situation—and its terrible optics—echoed a similar locker room visit by FBI Director Kash Patel, who unexpectedly appeared in videos with the U.S. men’s hockey team after their Olympic gold medal win earlier this year. At the time, Patel was caught on tape chugging beers inside the locker room in Milan, spurring nationwide backlash as the American public questioned if the conspiracy podcaster turned intelligence chief had utilized taxpayer funds for the excursion.
尽管万斯担任美国政府的要职,但他在这次事件中仍被所有球员冷落。事实上,周三早些时候,万斯因支持共和党州长候选人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米(Vivek Ramaswamy)的言论而在俄亥俄州引发了轩然大波;该言论涉及拉马斯瓦米对手(民主党候选人艾米·阿克顿,Dr. Amy Acton)的离异母亲。
But at least Patel made it inside. Despite occupying the number two office in America, Vance quietly waited for attention in the Bengals’ hallway. When it became clear that a meet and greet wasn’t going to happen, Vance wandered off with his entourage. It was not immediately clear why the team snubbed Vance, but either way, the vice president should have bigger things on his plate. Earlier Wednesday, Vance sparked statewide backlash across Ohio for defending a disturbing by Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that featured the estranged mother of Ramaswamy’s opponent, Democratic candidate Dr. Amy Acton.
评论:万斯的遭遇再次暴露了美国政界某些人物的傲慢与冷漠态度。作为政府高官,他本应更加注重自己的言行举止,而不是卷入这类争议性事件中。
The advert had Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, claim that “Amy has a serious problem.”Acton has not spoken to her mother since she was 12 years old, ABC News reported.
这则广告中,阿克顿的母亲唐娜·亚瑟声称:“艾米有一个严重的问题。”据美国广播公司(ABC News)报道,阿克顿自12岁起就再未与母亲说过话。亚瑟曾抛弃自己的两个孩子,与她的丈夫(也就是阿克顿的继父)一起逃离了小镇;她的丈夫后来因性虐待这位民主党候选人而被起诉。
Arthur abandoned her two children to skip town with her husband, Acton’s stepfather, who was indicted for sexually abusing the Democratic candidate as a young girl. “Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar,” Vance said on Wednesday. “I Loved That”: Trump Celebrates as MAGA Fans Beat Protester Donald Trump is openly cheering political violence in the lead-up to the election.

“维韦克·拉马斯瓦米竟敢制作这样一则电视广告,公然指责事实真相,并称艾米·阿克顿是个骗子,”万斯在周三表示。
A protester is escorted out by security as President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Pendleton, South Carolina, on October 21. President Trump celebrated violence at his rally in South Carolina Thursday night.
“太棒了!”特朗普为“MAGA”支持者的行为欢呼:在选举前夕,特朗普公然为政治暴力行为喝彩。
At least nine protesters interrupted his speech at Clemson University, according to a pool report.
10月21日,唐纳德·特朗普在南卡罗来纳州彭德尔顿举行的竞选集会上讲话时,一名抗议者被安保人员带离现场。
In one instance, a heckler was punched by a Trump supporter in the crowd, and the president loved it. “Wow. Man, I love that. I watched that,” Trump said.
据报道,在克莱姆森大学举行的集会上,至少有九名抗议者打断了特朗普的演讲。在一次事件中,一名抗议者被人群中的特朗普支持者殴打,而特朗普对此表示赞赏:“哇,太棒了!那个人是谁?他想要你的签名……”“你知道吗?他让我想起了真正的冠军拳击手埃万德·霍利菲尔德,”特朗普说道。
“That was incredible. Wow. That was, that was unbelievable. Is everybody OK? Who’s the guy that threw that punch? “You know, you reminded me of Evander, the real deal, Holyfield,” Trump added, referring to the champion boxer in attendance. Police rush in to throw out a protester who was punched by another attendee Trump: Who was the guy who threw that punch? The guy got whacked.
在另一起事件中,一名“MAGA”支持者在安保人员将抗议者带离现场后,还击打了他的头部。
Evander, he wants your autograph. “You gotta give them credit. It takes courage to do that at a Trump rally. He got whacked.”
这已经是第六名在特朗普南卡罗来纳州集会上被驱逐的抗议者了——有人跟随抗议者并击打了他的头部。
In another instance, a MAGA fan followed a protester as security escorted him out, and hit him on the head. This is the sixth protestor removed from President Trump’s rally in South Carolina - an attendee followed and knocked him on his head.
特朗普在集会上美化暴力的历史可以追溯到其政治生涯的开端。2016年2月,特朗普在拉斯维加斯的一次集会上公开表示,他真想冲上去揍抗议者一拳。次月,他在爱荷华州的集会上对人群说:“所以如果你们看到有人准备扔番茄,把他揍得稀烂,行吗?我保证,我会付法律费。我保证。我保证。”随着总统支持率持续跌至历史新低,越来越多的人涌入他的中期选举前集会进行嘲讽和抗议。
Trump has a history of celebrating violence in his rallies going back to the start of his political career. In February 2016, Trump wished aloud at a rally in Las Vegas that he would have liked to punch a protester in the face. The next month, he told a rally crowd in Iowa, “So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of ’em, would you? I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.”As the president’s dwindling popularity keeps setting records, more and more people are showing up to his pre-midterm election rallies to heckle and protest him.
由于其失败的经济政策和在伊朗的灾难性战争,经济持续恶化,甚至在曾以大幅优势支持他的地区,不满情绪也在加剧。
The economy continues to grow worse thanks to his failed economic policies and disastrous war in Iran, increasing dissatisfaction even in areas that voted for him by wide margins.
然而,特朗普仍保有一批铁杆支持者,他们完全愿意诉诸暴力以示忠诚,无论是冲击国会大厦还是殴打抗议者。但对特朗普而言,没有什么是过火的。
However, Trump still retains a core group of die-hard supporters, who are perfectly willing to engage in violence to demonstrate their loyalty, whether it’s storming the Capitol building or beating up protesters. To Trump, however, nothing can go too far.