几个月前，唐纳德·特朗普在一档保守派广播节目中表示，“很多人”希望看到他在第一个任期内赦免自己。
A couple of months ago, Donald Trump appeared on a conservative radio show and said that “a lot of people” wanted to see the president pardon himself in his first term.
“我有绝对的权利这样做，”他说。“但我选择通过法院斗争并获胜。”虽然这并不是对近期历史的完全准确描述——特朗普在纽约被判犯有多项重罪，只有在他重返白宫后联邦刑事案件才被终止，而非因法院裁决有利于他——但他关于自己拥有“绝对权利”赦免自己的言论仍然引人注目。
“I had the absolute right to do it,” he said. “Instead, I fought it through the courts and won.”While that wasn’t an entirely accurate summary of recent history — Trump, who was convicted of several felonies in New York, only “won” when the federal criminal cases against him ended upon his return to the White House, not because they were adjudicated in his favor — the president’s rhetoric about his “absolute right” to pardon himself stood out.
本周，他在接受Newsmax主持人罗布·芬纳蒂采访时再次谈及此事。
This week, he returned to the issue during an interview with Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty.
当被明确问及他是否“正在认真考虑在离职前赦免自己”时，特朗普最初回避了问题，称自己“没有做错任何事”，随后补充道：“我被允许赦免自己。我被允许进行赦免。……赦免权非常强大。我知道这一点。他们说这是总统拥有的最强大的权力——赦免权。”正如我的MS NOW同事乔丹·鲁宾上周详细解释的那样，总统是否真的可以赦免自己仍然存在争议。
Asked specifically whether he’s “seriously considering a self-pardon” before he leaves office, the president initially hedged, saying he’s done “nothing wrong,”before adding“I’m allowed to do a self-pardon. I’m allowed to pardon. … The pardon is very powerful. I know that. They say it’s the most powerful thing a president has, the power of pardon.”As my MS NOW colleague Jordan Rubin explained in detail just last week, whether presidents can actually pardon themselves is a matter of some controversy.
1974年理查德·尼克松辞职前，司法部法律顾问办公室曾起草一份备忘录，得出总统可以自我赦免的结论，尽管OLC的意见对法院没有约束力，且此事从未得到实际检验——至少目前尚未。但特朗普在此次交流中还提出了另一个值得关注的观点。
Ahead of Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel prepared a memo concluding that presidents pardon themselves, though OLC opinions are not binding on the courts, and the matter has never been tested — at least not yet. But also of interest was the point Trump made as part of the same exchange.
在谈到赦免问题时，这位共和党人继续说道：“我可以告诉你，我不希望看到我的团队成员经历——因为这些人是左翼的疯子——我不希望看到为我工作的人们花费数年时间处理毫无意义的事情，聘请律师并做其他一切，最终却一无所获。”此番言论出现在特朗普几周前接受《时代》杂志采访、表示他准备为其行政部门成员发放赦免之后。
On the topic of pardons, the Republican went on to say, “I can tell you this, I don’t want to see my people go through — because these people are lunatics on the, on the left — I don’t want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense, hire lawyers and everything else, all for nothing.”This came a few weeks after Trump also told Time magazine that he’s prepared to issue pardons to members of his administration.
时间会告诉我们他是否会兑现承诺，同样值得注意的是，他的团队中究竟有多少成员被考虑获得总统特赦。但特朗普一直发表类似言论，这很可能对白宫乃至整个行政部门产生实际影响：总统实际上在向一支由政治任命人员组成的小军队传递信息，即无论他们在履行职责时做了什么，他都倾向于赦免他们，无论他们是否值得被赦免。
Time will tell whether he follows through, and just as notably, just how many members of his team are considered for presidential clemency. But that Trump keeps making comments like these might very have a real impact in the White House and throughout the executive branch: The president is effectively letting a small army of political appointees know that, no matter what they do as part of their duties, he’s inclined to hand them a pardon, whether or not they deserve one.
系统性政府腐败在特朗普时代已经是一个问题，他向团队传递的信号很可能使情况变得更糟。
Systemic government corruption is already a problem in the Trump era The signal he’s sending to his team is likely to make matters worse.
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