Trump called ‘national security threat’ as impeachment looms

弹劾在即，特朗普被称为“国家的安全威胁”

（摘自英国金融时报中文网）

2019年12 月19日

Donald Trump should be impeached because he poses a “continuing threat” to US national security, a senior Democrat insisted on Sunday ahead of what is expected to be a historic lawmakers’ vote against the US president.

一位资深民主党人周日坚称，唐纳德·特朗普应该被弹劾，因为他对美国国家安全构成“持续威胁”。在即将举行的投票中，众议院议员预计将历史性地投票通过对美国总统的弹劾。

The US House of Representatives is expected to vote within days to send Mr Trump for trial in the Senate, in what would be only the third such action against a US president after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998. The move towards a vote comes after the House judiciary committee on Friday split along party lines to approve two articles of impeachment against Mr Trump, the 45th president.

预计美国众议院将在几天内投票，然后将特朗普弹劾案提交参议院审理，这将是继1868年安德鲁·约翰逊和1998年比尔·克林顿之后第三次弹劾美国总统的行动。决定提交众议院全体投票之前，上周五众议院司法委员会沿着政党界线分裂，通过了针对第45任总统特朗普的两项弹劾条款。

Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat who heads the House judiciary committee, on Sunday said the House had to impeach Mr Trump because he remained a threat to US elections and democracy.

众议院司法委员会主席、来自纽约的民主党众议员杰罗尔德·纳德勒周日表示，众议院不得不弹劾特朗普，因为他仍然对美国的选举和民主制度构成威胁。

“This is a crime in progress against the constitution and against the American democracy,” Mr Nadler, who wrote the articles of impeachment against the president, told ABC News. “We cannot take the risk that the next election will be corrupted through foreign interference solicited by the president.”

“这是仍在进行中的违反宪法和危害美国民主制度的犯罪行为，”撰写弹劾条款的纳德勒告诉美国广播公司新闻部。“我们不能冒险让总统邀请的外国干预破坏下一次选举。”

With the outcome in the House practically preordained, attention shifted over the weekend to how long a new year Senate trial should be, given the approaching presidential election next November.

鉴于众议院的投票结果几乎没有悬念，而明年11月将举行总统大选，各方的注意力在周末转向参议院在新年举行的审判将会持续多久。

While Democrats hold 233 seats in the 435-seat House, the odds are extremely low that he will be convicted in the 100-seat Senate, because 20 Republicans would have to abandon the president to convict him in a trial that requires a two-thirds majority to remove him from office.

民主党在435个议席的众议院拥有233个席位，但特朗普在100个议席的参议院中被定罪的几率极低，因为对他定罪、然后撤销他的职务需要三分之二多数参议员的支持，这意味着要有20名共和党参议员站到总统的对立面。

Mr Trump and his Republican allies have described the impeachment process as a “hoax” perpetrated by Democrats who are angry at losing the White House in 2016 and worried about losing again in 2020. The Democrats argue that Mr Trump tried to solicit interference into the 2020 election from Ukraine, in what they describe as a brazen move that came just one day after Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who led the Russia probe, testified before Congress on July 24.

特朗普和他的共和党盟友将弹劾过程形容为民主党人搞出来的“骗局”，因为民主党人对2016年失去白宫感到愤怒，并担心2020年再次落败。民主党人辩称，特朗普试图邀请乌克兰干涉2020年美国大选，他们形容那是一个无耻举动，发生在领导通俄案调查的特别检察官罗伯特·穆勒7月24日在国会作证的次日。

Mr Trump faces impeachment over his July 25 call with Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he asked the president of Ukraine to probe Joe Biden, the former vice-president and his potential Democratic rival in 2020, and investigate a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, and not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election.

特朗普面临弹劾的缘由是他在7月25日与弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基的电话通话，其间他请求乌克兰总统调查前副总统、他在2020年大选中的潜在民主党对手乔·拜登，并调查一个已被揭穿的阴谋论，即乌克兰，而不是俄罗斯干涉了2016年美国大选。

The second article of impeachment accuses him of obstructing the investigation.

第二项弹劾条款指控他妨碍调查。

“It was the day after Bob Mueller testified, the day after Donald Trump felt that he was beyond accountability for his first misconduct, that he was back on the phone, this time with President Zelensky, trying to get that country to help him cheat in the next election,” Adam Schiff, the Democrat who led the impeachment inquiry, told ABC News on Sunday.

“那是在鲍勃·穆勒作证的第二天，也就是唐纳德·特朗普觉得他对自己的第一起不当行为无需承担责任的第二天，他又拿起电话，这一次是打给泽连斯基总统，试图说服那个国家帮助他在下一次选举中舞弊，”领导弹劾调查的民主党人亚当·希夫周日对美国广播公司新闻部表示。

（编辑：王鑫）