建制派媒体和一些民主党人对总统公然滥用司法系统的行为异常沉默。
The establishment press and some Democrats are strangely mute over the president’s flagrant abuse of the legal system.
特朗普长期幻想驱逐众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔。2019年，特朗普对奥马尔及其国会同事亚历山德拉·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯、拉希达·特莱布和安娜·普雷斯利发起攻击——她们都是左翼民主党人、有色人种女性，也是“小队”的成员。特朗普使用了熟悉的排外嘲讽，挖苦道：“他们为什么不回去帮助修复他们来自的那个完全破碎且充斥犯罪的地方？”对“小队”中的三人而言，特朗普的威胁虽恶劣但属于空谈：奥卡西奥-科尔特斯、特莱布和普雷斯利均出生于美国。
Donald Trump has long fantasized about deporting Representative Ilhan Omar. In 2019, Trump lashed out against Omar and her congressional colleagues Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley—all left-wing Democrats and women of color and part of the “Squad.”Deploying a familiar xenophobic jibe, Trump taunted, “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”For three of the Squad, Trump’s threat was vile but empty: Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Pressley were all born in the United States.
但对奥马尔而言，特朗普的话语直接传递了伤害意图。奥马尔出生于索马里，8岁时作为难民来到美国，并于2000年17岁时最终获得公民身份。周四，《华盛顿邮报》报道称，2019年——也就是特朗普当年告诉奥马尔“回到她来自的地方”时——他的政府曾下令移民官员翻查她的个人记录，以寻找可能导致她被驱逐出美国的欺诈证据。这场调查最终一无所获。
But for Omar, Trump’s words carried a direct intent of harm. Omar was born in Somalia, came to the United States at age 8 as a refugee, and was eventually granted citizenship at age 17 in 2000. On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that in 2019, the same year Trump was telling Omar to “go back” to where she came from, his administration ordered immigration officials to comb through her personal records to find evidence of fraud that could lead to her removal from the US. This fishing expedition came up empty-handed.
特朗普从不因缺乏证据而气馁，此后一直坚持要求驱逐奥马尔——这些呼声在过去一年里持续升温。今年1月，他说奥马尔应被送“回到索马里”，随后一个月他重复了这一说法。3月，副总统JD·万斯也加入其中，毫无证据地直言奥马尔“肯定犯有移民欺诈罪”。奥马尔成为特朗普最常攻击的对象之一，原因有很多。作为国会中的领军左翼人士，她天然是他的对手。但更重要的是，作为一名无畏的索马里裔美国女性，她激发了特朗普及其MAGA运动所煽动的种族主义、排外和厌女情绪。
Never one to be defeated by a mere lack of evidence, Trump has persisted in calling for Omar’s deportation ever since—calls that have ramped up over the last year. In January, he said Omar should be sent “back to Somalia,” a call he repeated the following month. In March, Vice President JD Vance joined in, bluntly declaring, without evidence, that Omar “definitely committed immigration fraud.”There are ample reasons why Omar has been one of Trump’s favorite punching bags. As a leading leftist in Congress, she is a natural antagonist. But, more importantly, as a fearless Somali American woman, she excites all the passions of racism, xenophobia, and misogyny that animate Trump and his MAGA movement.
考虑到特朗普对奥马尔长期的报复行动，本周国土安全部突击搜查她的住所以寻找移民欺诈证据，这一举动《华尔街日报》报道称旨在剥夺她的公民身份，这并不令人意外。
Given the long history of Trump’s vendetta against Omar, it was ultimately not surprising when the Department of Homeland Security raided her home this week in search of evidence of immigration fraud, a move that The Wall Street Journal reports is motivated by a goal of stripping her of her citizenship.
针对奥马尔的运动充斥着党派偏见和偏执，散发着浓烈的政治气息。这也是特朗普利用执法机构惩罚被视为敌人的更大模式的一部分。《纽约客》最近的报道指出，特朗普的迫害对司法部造成了巨大伤害：众多律师因拒绝起诉特朗普视为敌人的人物——如前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米和纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯——而被迫离职或被解雇。
The campaign against Omar stinks to high heaven of partisanship and bigotry. It is also part of a larger pattern of Trump’s weaponization of law enforcement to punish perceived enemies. As The New Yorker documented recently, Trump’s persecutions have done immense harm to the Department of Justice: Numerous attorneys have been pushed out or fired after refusing to prosecute such Trump enemies as the former F.B.I. director James Comey and the New York attorney general Letitia James.
当这些出于报复的起诉最终在法庭上受到审查时，结果并不好。联邦检察官提起的诉讼被大陪审团驳回的情况极为罕见，但针对詹姆斯的案件——她被指控犯有抵押贷款欺诈罪——已被两次驳回。詹姆斯和科米的起诉书最初由林赛·哈利根获得，她是一名律师、前选美比赛选手，特朗普曾任命她为弗吉尼亚州东区美国检察官，尽管她从未担任过检察官。
When these vindictive prosecutions eventually fell under scrutiny in courtrooms, they didn’t fare well. It is extremely rare for grand juries to dismiss charges brought by federal prosecutors, but the case against James, who was accused of committing mortgage fraud, has been rejected twice. Indictments of James and Comey were initially secured by Lindsey Halligan, a lawyer and a former beauty-pageant contestant whom Trump had appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, even though she’d had no experience as a prosecutor.
但一名地方法官随后因她“令人不安的深度调查失误模式”而斥责她，包括反复向大陪审团成员错误陈述法律。另一名法官随后驳回了这两起案件，裁定哈利根的任命违法。
But a magistrate judge subsequently reprimanded her for a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps,” including repeatedly misstating the law to grand jurors. Another judge then dismissed both cases, ruling that Halligan had been appointed unlawfully.
但有一个显著的事实使这种恶意起诉与众不同：与特朗普之前对司法系统的无法无天滥用所导致的其他受害者不同，奥马尔并未得到政治和媒体精英的全力支持。
But there’s a striking fact that sets the malicious prosecution apart: Unlike earlier victims of Trump’s lawless abuse of the justice system, Omar isn’t getting a full-throated defense from the political and media elite.
奥马尔确实有人为她而战。据我同事、《国家》杂志记者约翰·尼科尔斯报道，她在明尼苏达州的选民中依然受欢迎，该州民主党也已团结在她身边。众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯谴责特朗普的“卑鄙的人身攻击”，并指出特朗普的“暴力大规模驱逐机器已经降临到一位合法当选的国会议员及其家人的家中”。连前共和党众议员马乔丽·泰勒·格林也批评了特朗普。
Omar does have people fighting on her side. As my Nation colleague John Nichols reports, she remains popular with her constituents in Minnesota, and the state’s Democratic Party has rallied to her side. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries decried Trump’s “vile personal attacks” and the fact that Trump’s “violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.”Even former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was critical of Trump.
她在X.com上的一篇帖子中问道，“假装准备驱逐伊尔汉·奥马尔，怎么能让汽油价格降至2美元以下，让健康保险变得便宜得多，让一家人的每周杂货账单变得合理，以及停止派我们亲爱的军队去打另一场该死的外国战争呢？”格林对特朗普的尖锐斥责，与参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默形成鲜明对比，舒默在突袭发生后的五天里，至今没有为奥马尔说出一句支持的话。
In a post on X.com, Greene asked how “pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar is going to bring gas down under $2, make health insurance freaking affordable, make a family’s weekly grocery bill make sense, and stop sending our beloved military off to fight for another fucking foreign war???”Greene’s pointed rebuke of Trump stands in sharp contrast to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who in the five days since the raid has yet to say one word in defense of Omar.
舒默的沉默并不令人意外。因为奥马尔一直直言不讳地批评以色列和以色列游说集团，像舒默这样的建制派民主党人往往与她保持距离。
Schumer’s silence is hardly surprising. Because Omar has been outspoken in her criticism of Israel and the Israel lobby, establishment Democrats such as Schumer have often kept their distance from her.
奥马尔对以色列的批评以及她更广泛的反战立场，在民主党选民中极受欢迎，并在普通公众中获得多数支持。根据“270项目”最近的一项民调，67%的公众希望结束海外战争，51%的人认为以色列在加沙地带犯下了种族灭绝罪（而29%的人否认发生了种族灭绝）。但这些立场在政治和媒体精英中不那么受欢迎。
Omar’s criticism of Israel and her larger anti-war stance are overwhelmingly popular with Democratic Party voters and have majority support with the general public. According to a recent poll by Project 270, 67 percent of the public want to end overseas war, and 51 percent believe Israel has committed genocide in Gaza (as against 29 percent who deny that genocide has occurred). But these positions are less popular with the political and media elite.
特朗普怒火的其他受害者已被塑造成媒体英雄。但奥马尔受到了不同的对待。亚当·约翰逊在《拦截者》杂志撰文，对奥马尔突袭事件与2025年8月对特朗普前国家安全顾问、后转为批评者的约翰·博尔顿家中突袭事件进行了尖锐对比。
Other victims of Trump’s wrath have been turned into media heroes. But Omar is being treated differently. Writing in The Intercept, Adam Johnson drew a pointed contrast between the Omar raid and the August 2025 raid on the home of John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic.
在博尔顿突袭当天，我们看到《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》和《华尔街日报》发表了尖锐的社论。接下来的一周，这些报纸的观点版还各自发表了独立文章，反对这次突袭，对其合法性提出质疑，并对这种明显的权力夺取表示愤怒。《政客》《纽约客》和《大西洋月刊》明确谴责了这次突袭，并发表了四篇不同的愤怒专栏。
The very day of the Bolton raid, we saw scathing editorials from the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Over the next week, each of these newspapers also published separate pieces from their opinion staff opposing the raid, casting doubt on its legitimacy, and otherwise leveling outrage at the obvious power grab. The raid was explicitly condemned in Politico, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, which published four different indignant columns.
对奥马尔住宅的突袭至今尚未获得上述任何媒体的干预。《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》或《华尔街日报》没有社论，也没有观点专栏；《纽约客》《政客》或《大西洋月刊》也没有就“法治”被侵蚀进行自我表扬。《大西洋月刊》确实发表了一篇关于奥马尔突袭的文章，但其语气含糊不清，呈现“两边都有理由”的姿态……
The raid on Omar’s home has thus far received zero of the above media interventions. No editorials, no opinion columns in the Times, Post, or Journal; no preening in The New Yorker or Politico or Atlantic about the erosion of “rule of law.”The Atlantic did run an article on the Omar raid but it was equivocal and Both Sides in its tone…