针对总统特朗普和战争部长皮特·海格塞斯的弹劾程序将在未来两年内到来。
Impeachment proceedings for President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are coming in the next two years.
这种不可避免的趋势意味着，特朗普总统最好由一位既是顶尖聪明律师、又是一流年轻沟通者的优秀人选来担任下一任白宫新闻秘书，特别是如果此人曾展现出非凡的法律功底，其简历上写有“最高法院书记员”的经历的话。
That inevitability means President Trump would be well served by a superb young communicator who is a very smart lawyer as his next press secretary, especially if that person has demonstrated the extraordinary legal chops to have "Supreme Court clerk" on his or her résumé.
国会中针对特朗普的搜寻行动所引发的与白宫记者团的对决，正如接下来与国会委员会的对决一样，往往将涉及总统权力的范围。关于这一主题有着大量的判例法，历史上也充满了相关的先例。一位了解这些判例和先例的新闻秘书，将在新闻发布室里远远领先于普通记者。如果这位新新闻秘书还需要就罗伯特·杰克逊大法官在1952年“扬斯敦埃尔管公司诉索耶案”中的著名意见接受简报，那么他或她就已经落后了。特朗普总统承担不起一位从一开始就落后的发言人。
The duels with the White House press corps triggered by Trump-hunting in Congress, like those ahead with congressional committees, are very often going to deal with the extent of presidential powers. There is a lot of case law on that topic, and history is full of relevant precedents. A press secretary who knows those cases and precedents will be far ahead of the average journalist in the press room. If the new press secretary has to be briefed on Justice Robert Jackson’s famed opinion in the 1952 decision Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer , he or she will already be behind. President Trump cannot afford a spokesperson who is behind from the jump.
特朗普及其顾问从未来两年第一场弹劾闹剧中汲取的教训是宝贵的。本周弹劾战争部长皮特·海格塞斯的行动由即将离任的肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·马西主导。（马西在5月的共和党初选中输给了共和党人埃德·加尔雷因，得票率差距接近10%，从而失去了干了十二年的职位——这是对马西惯于哗众取宠的一次惊人斥责。）
What President Trump and his advisers learned from the first impeachment circus of the next two years is valuable. The effort to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth this week was led by outgoing Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky. (Massie was booted out of his job of a dozen years in a May Republican primary, which Massie lost to Republican Ed Gallrein by nearly 10% — a stunning rebuke of Massie’s inveterate grandstanding.)
民主党人团结在共和党议员推动的海格塞斯弹劾案背后，释放出1月份将有更多类似行动的信号。马西在国会的最后一次行动失败了，但他在失败中吸引到的注意力再次证明，一个渴望关注的国会议员总是可以通过随时随地弹劾任何人的举动来吸引镜头。民主党人注意到了这一点，尤其是像马西那样想要博取关注却毫无建树的议员。
DEMOCRATS RALLY BEHIND GOP LAWMAKER'S HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT PUSH, SIGNAL MORE TO COME IN JANUARY Massie failed in his last act in Congress, but the attention he attracted in failing demonstrated again that an attention-starved congressman can always get some cameras on him or her via moves to impeach anyone, anytime. Democrats noticed, especially achievement-free members like Massie who want some attention.
最新弹劾动议的愚蠢之处，已在其目标——战争部长皮特·海格塞斯在周二上午举行的新闻发布会上显露无遗。海格塞斯为如何对荒谬的指控发起反击树立了榜样：用清晰、干练且详尽的语句发言。以鲜明的立场拒绝那些渴望出风头者的哗众取宠。然后回去工作。不要陷入枝节纠缠。
The foolishness of the latest impeachment push was demonstrated by its target, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, in a Tuesday morning press conference. Hegseth set an example of how to play offense against ridiculous charges: Speak in clear, crisp and detailed sentences. Reject in bold colors the antics of attention addicts. Then go back to work. Don’t get pulled into the weeds.
马西就是个渴望出风头的人，他一直在琢磨如何从他那短暂内啡肽的来源中突然抽身，并为此经历着可怕的过程：华盛顿记者们像他多么重要似地向他提问。
Massie is an attention addict, and he’s been contemplating the awful process of sudden withdrawal from his source of fleeting endorphins: Beltway journalists asking him questions as though he mattered.
马西于2014年首次当选肯塔基州国会议员，在他离任前，他将在那里坐满十二年冷板凳。他本可以切实致力于某个特定议题并培养出一些宝贵的专业知识。相反，他变成了一种众议院的灯蛾，只要摄像机灯光转向他，他就会被吸引过去。
Massie was first elected as a congressman from Kentucky in 2014 and will have warmed a seat there for a dozen years before he leaves. He could have actually worked on a particular issue and developed some valuable expertise. Instead, he became a kind of House moth, attracted to camera lights whenever they were turned his way.
马西的“成就”，如果真有什么了不起的成就的话，除了他自己的核心圈子外，鲜为人知。他因2018年《农业法案》中的一项条款而与少数几人共同获得认可，该条款将大麻从联邦管制物质的定义中移除，为全国范围内的商业生产开辟了道路。仅此而已。
Massie’s "accomplishments," if there are any genuine ones, are unknown to many beyond his own inner circle. He gets credit along with a handful of others for the provision in the 2018 Farm Bill that removed hemp from the federal controlled substances definition, opening the way for commercial production nationwide. That is it.
马西迷上了电视有线频道的灯光，于是他不再关注大麻，转而迷上了爱泼斯坦档案。马西对这匹特定的马狂骑不止，双眼死死盯着将整份档案公之于众这一他自己那怪异的目标。他利用了一份罢免请愿书以争取进行投票，并诱使其他三名共和党人加入他的行列——来自佐治亚州的玛乔丽·泰勒·格林、来自科罗拉多州的劳伦·博伯特以及来自南卡罗来纳州的南希·梅斯。
Massie got hooked on those cable channel lights of television, so he moved on from hemp and got hooked on the Epstein files. Massie rode that particular horse very hard, never taking his eyes off his own weird goal of getting the entire file dropped on the public. He deployed a discharge petition to get a vote and lured three other Republicans into joining him — Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
所有四人将在1月3日之前离任。公布这些档案的结果是什么？少数人受到了冲击，例如前英国驻美国大使彼得·曼德尔森勋爵（Lord Peter Mandelson）和前英国首相基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）。但在这些汗牛充栋的档案中，没有任何内容将特朗普总统牵连进爱泼斯坦的罪行中。马西（Massie）的那场噱头除了一个打破不公布调查原始档案这一长期惯例的先例外，什么也没有捞到。
All four will be gone by Jan. 3. The result of the release of those files? A few folks got gored, like former British ambassador to the United States Lord Peter Mandelson and former U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But there was nothing in those voluminous files that implicated President Trump in Epstein’s crimes. Massie got zero out of that stunt except a precedent for breaking the long-established practice of not releasing raw files from investigations.
解除请愿书是对政党领导层的决裂，而且很少有好结果。纽约州共和党众议员迈克·劳勒（Mike Lawler）强行对其所在党团发起了一项解除请愿书，要求就延长奥巴马医改（Obamacare）补贴进行投票。另外三名共和党人加入了劳勒的这场噱头，结果只是让那些在实际法案中投反对票的共和党同僚感到尴尬。布莱恩·菲茨帕特里克（Brian Fitzpatrick）、罗布·布雷斯纳汉（Rob Bresnahan）和瑞安·麦肯齐（Ryan Mackenzie）都加入了劳勒的发起行列。这四人都在上周落选了。
Discharge petitions are a break with party leadership and rarely end well. New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler forced a discharge petition on his own conference that required a vote on extending Obamacare subsidies. Three other Republicans joined Lawler in the stunt and only managed to embarrass his GOP colleagues who voted no on the actual bill. Brian Fitzpatrick, Rob Bresnahan and Ryan Mackenzie all joined Lawler on that petition. All four lost last week.
噱头主要会被那些受其伤害的人记住。蓝色浪潮的浩大不应掩盖这样一个事实：所有八名背叛自己党团的共和党人都将在1月黯然下台，同他们一起离开的还有许多“笨蛋党团”（Knucklehead Caucus）的成员，正是他们在2023年10月残害了时任议长凯文·麦卡锡（Kevin McCarthy）。
Stunts are remembered mostly by those they hurt. The enormity of the blue tsunami should not obscure the fact that all eight Republicans who turned on their caucus will be out on their backs come January, right along with many other members of the "Knucklehead Caucus" who kneecapped then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy in October 2023.
所有这些不听指挥的共和党人所认为的“好政治”并没能拯救他们，他们对博取关注的要求也不会轻易被遗忘。如果这些人来寻找工作，游说与公共事务公司将会选择“拒绝”。哪家公司愿意让马西等人代表自己？如果他们会背刺自己的政党，他们又凭什么对未来的新雇主和客户保持忠诚？
What all these rogue Republicans thought was "good politics" could not save them, and their demands for attention won’t be easily forgotten. Lobbying and public affairs firms are going to say "pass" if and when these types come looking for work. Which company wants to be represented by Massie et al.? If they would stab their own party, why would they stay loyal to their prospective new employers and clients?
不过这对现在的民主党人来说已经不重要了。凭借其庞大的多数席位，民主党人将一次又一次地发起弹劾投票，并且他们可以指望党团近乎一致的支持。
Not that it matters to Democrats now. With their enormous majority, Democrats will call impeachment votes again and again, and they can count on near-unanimous support from their caucus.
这意味着将就多项弹劾条款举行多场听证会，其中一些条款将获得通过，随后参议院将花费数小时、数天、数周甚至数月的时间进行弹劾审判。
That means many hearings on many articles of impeachment, some of which will pass, and then hours, days, weeks and months of the Senate’s time will be spent on impeachment trials.
正如马西此前愚蠢地要求就弹劾进行投票一样，2027至2028年的每一场弹劾程序也将如此：那些成为最终“拿下特朗普”努力之捍卫者的人将获得大量媒体关注。当然，他们不会成功。即便他们获得了数量足够的参议员，投票支持对每一项不同的弹劾条款进行延长的审判，也不会有足够数量的共和党参议员投票支持将其罢免。这完全是在极大地浪费时间。
As with the idiotic demand from Massie for a vote on impeachment, so will it be with every impeachment proceeding in 2027-2028: lots of media attention for those who emerge as champions of the efforts to finally "get Trump." They won’t succeed, of course. Even if they secured the necessary number of senators to vote for extended trials on every different impeachment article, enough GOP senators won’t vote for removal. It’s all a gigantic waste of time.
我对总统特朗普的非主动建议是：拿到过去六年的最高法院法律助理名单，并面试那些实际上（1）信仰第二条权力且（2）能够与白宫记者团进行口头交锋并战胜后者的人。白宫记者团在集体好斗性上将堪比尼克松任期最后两年的记者团。
My unsolicited suggestion for President Trump: Get a list of Supreme Court law clerks from the past six years and interview those who are, in fact, (1) believers in Article II powers and (2) able to verbally battle with and best a White House press corps that will rival that of Nixon’s last two years in its collective combativeness.
特朗普总统自己就是自己最好的辩护者，但一位年轻、极其聪明、口齿伶俐、对宪法了如指掌且在依据第二条权力进行辩论时毫不退缩的律师，才是至少能够让其信息在传统媒体对丑闻和争议的无厌渴求中传播开来的关键，而此时这些传统媒体正在汇集兵力，为他们对特朗普长达12年战争的最后挣扎做准备。
President Trump is his own best defender, but a young, very smart, very articulate lawyer who knows the Constitution inside and out and doesn’t flinch from making arguments based on Article II powers is the ticket to at least getting his message out over the legacy media’s insatiable appetite for scandal and controversy as they gather their numbers for the last gasp in their 12-year war against Trump.
休·休伊特是福克斯新闻频道撰稿人，也是《休·休伊特秀》的主持人。该节目于美东时间周一至周五下午 3 点至 6 点在塞勒姆广播网播出，并在塞勒姆新闻频道同步播出。休伊特通过全美 400 多个分支机构以及所有能够收看塞勒姆新闻频道的流媒体平台，在东海岸陪伴美国人下班回家，在西海岸陪伴他们吃午餐。他是福克斯新闻频道新闻圆桌会议的常客，该节目由布雷特·拜尔于美东时间周一至周五下午 6 点主持。
Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and host of "The Hugh Hewitt Show" heard weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh drives Americans home on the East Coast and to lunch on the West Coast on over 400 affiliates nationwide, and on all the streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel’s news roundtable, hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET.
休伊特是俄亥俄州人，毕业于哈佛学院和密歇根大学法学院，自 1996 年以来一直担任查普曼大学福勒法学院法学教授，教授宪法。休伊特于 1990 年在洛杉矶推出了以自己名字命名的广播节目。休伊特曾频繁亮相各大全国性电视新闻网，为公共广播公司和微软全国广播公司主持过电视节目，为美国各大报纸撰稿，撰写过十几本书籍，并主持过数十场共和党候选人辩论，最近的一次是 2023 年 11 月在迈阿密举行的共和党总统辩论，以及 2015 至 2016 年选举周期的四场共和党总统辩论。
A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle.
休伊特的广播节目和专栏聚焦于宪法、国家安全、美国政治以及克利夫兰布朗队和守护者队。在其 40 年的广播生涯中，休伊特采访了数万名嘉宾，从民主党的希拉里·克林顿和约翰·克里，到共和党总统乔治·W·布什和唐纳德·特朗普。本专栏前瞻了将主导他今天广播和电视节目的头条新闻。
Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcasting. This column previews the lead story that will drive his radio/ TV show today.