时代周刊:特朗普对穆勒宣战(2)

Trump’s allies have taken up his battle cry.

特朗普的盟友们也加入了他的战斗。

Giuliani, Trump’s primary legal spokesperson, has declared that a President cannot be indicted¹ and has the power to pardon himself for any crime.

特朗普的主要法律发言人朱利安尼就已经宣布，总统不能被起诉，总统有权赦免自己的任何罪行。

Conservative commentators² have picked up on that tack³,

保守派评论人士已经察觉到了这一策略，

while GOP members of Congress who once hailed Mueller’s integrity have seconded the provocations⁴ or gone conspicuously⁵ silent.

曾经还赞扬穆勒正直的共和党国会议员则分裂成了两派，或支持他的挑战行为，或明显选择了沉默。

The President “is trying to delegitimize the entire prosecution,” says Peter Zeidenberg, a former deputy special counsel under George W. Bush.

总统“正试图剥夺整个起诉流程的合法性，”乔治·W·布什政府的前副特别检察官彼得·泽登伯格说道。

It seems to be working.

这一举措似已奏效。

In a May CBS News poll, 53% of Americans said they believed Mueller’s investigation⁶ was politically motivated, up 5 points in five months.

哥伦比亚广播公司5月份的一项民意调查显示，53%的美国人认为穆勒的调查政治动机不纯，5个月时间里这一比例上涨了5%。

An Economist/YouGov poll the same month found that 75% of Republicans agreed with Trump’s claim

经济学人和YouGov同月携手开展的一项民意调查发现，有75%的共和党人赞成特朗普

that the probe is a “witch hunt” (though only 37% of the overall public agreed).

所谓的此次调查是一场“政治迫害”的说法（尽管整体而言只有37%的民众同意这一看法）。

With Trump’s 87% support among Republicans,

特朗普在党内的支持率高达87%，

the only President since the 1940s who has been as loved by his own party after 500 days in office is Bush, post-9/11.

自上世纪40年代以来，执政500天后在党内依然受到同等爱戴的只有布什总统一人，还是911事件后才出现的这一支持率。

This playbook has been run before by Clinton, whose impeachment⁷ lawyer, Emmet Flood, recently joined Trump’s team.

特朗普的这一招数比尔·克林顿也用过，而曾经为克林顿代理弹劾案的律师艾米特·弗洛德最近已经加入了特朗普阵营。

Clinton so succeeded in discrediting⁸ the probe run by then–independent counsel Kenneth Starr

曾经负责弹劾克林顿的调查的是当时的独立检察官肯尼斯·斯塔尔，但克林顿成功地推翻了调查，

that his public support actually increased, and he survived impeachment.

其公众支持率非但没有下降，反而出现了提升，他也因此躲过一劫。

“This case is not going to be tried before a jury,” Giuliani tells TIME.

朱利安尼在接受本刊采访时表示：“本案不会得到陪审团的审理。”

“It’s not a criminal case.

“毕竟不是刑事案件。

It’s an investigation that’s going to result in a report,

只是一次调查，最后会有一份调查报告出来，

and the issue will be what happens to that report, and public opinion is going to have a lot to do with that.”

问题是那份报告的命运如何，这就跟公众舆论有很大关系了。”

1 indicted   

控告，起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
• He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。

2 commentators   

n.评论员( commentator的名词复数 )；时事评论员；注释者；实况广播员

参考例句：

• Sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam. 体育解说员翻来覆去说着同样的词语，真叫人腻烦。
• Television sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam. 电视体育解说员说来说去就是那么几句话，令人厌烦。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 tack   

n.大头钉；假缝，粗缝

参考例句：

• He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.他正往墙上钉一枚平头钉用来挂画。
• We are going to tack the map on the wall.我们打算把这张地图钉在墙上。

4 provocations   

n.挑衅( provocation的名词复数 )；激怒；刺激；愤怒的原因

参考例句：

• We cannot ignore such provocations. 对于这种挑衅，我们不能置之不理。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• They must immediately cease all their provocations. 他们必须停止一切挑衅。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 conspicuously   

ad.明显地，惹人注目地

参考例句：

• France remained a conspicuously uneasy country. 法国依然是个明显不太平的国家。
• She figured conspicuously in the public debate on the issue. 她在该问题的公开辩论中很引人注目。

6 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

7 impeachment   

n.弹劾；控告；怀疑

参考例句：

• Impeachment is considered a drastic measure in the United States.在美国，弹劾被视为一种非常激烈的措施。
• The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career.他遭弹劾后得到的判决毁了他的政治生涯。

8 discrediting   

使不相信( discredit的现在分词 )； 使怀疑； 败坏…的名声； 拒绝相信

参考例句：

• It has also led to the discrediting of mainstream macroeconomics. 它还使得人们对主流宏观经济学产生了怀疑。