特朗普政府官员和顾问接连前往欧洲、中东甚至鲜为人知的飞地塞族共和国，为处境艰难的外国领导人助选。
Trump administration officials and advisers have made a string of overseas campaign trips for vulnerable leaders to Europe, the Middle East and even the little-known enclave Republika Srpska.
国防部长皮特·赫格塞思是特朗普团队中最新一位进行此类可被视为助选行程的成员，他在周一前往以色列南部一处驻有美军加油机和战斗机的基地，会见了以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡。以色列大选将于下周二举行。
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the latest member of Trump’s team to make what could be viewed as a campaign stop favoring a foreign ally, meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a base in southern Israel that hosts American refueling planes and fighter jets. Israel’s elections are next Tuesday.
副总统JD·万斯今年早些时候访问匈牙利，为维克托·欧尔班最终未能成功的竞选活动站台。领导特朗普中期选举广告工作的两位政治顾问詹姆斯·布莱尔和克里斯·拉西维塔上月前往塞族共和国——波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的一个自治领土——为一个亲俄政党助选，该党在10月4日的选举中获胜。
Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary earlier this year to support Viktor Orbán’s ultimately unsuccessful campaign. Two of Trump’s political advisers leading his midterm advertising effort, James Blair and Chris LaCivita, last month went to Republika Srpska, a self-governing territory in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to support a pro-Russia party that won in the Oct. 4 elections.
美国历届政府通常会特别努力避免外界认为其偏袒海外选举中的某位候选人，即使它们在幕后有心仪人选。
American administrations usually make special effort to avoid any perception of favoring candidates in overseas elections, even if they have favorites behind the scenes.
但特朗普团队将其偏好公开化，甚至出席竞选集会，或如赫格塞思所为，在特朗普背书内塔尼亚胡的第二天便前往以色列。
But Trump’s team has brought its preferences out in the open, going so far as to appear at campaign rallies or, in Hegseth’s case, traveling to Israel a day after Trump endorsed Netanyahu.
白宫发言人安娜·凯利表示，特朗普“将与任何人对话或合作，他对自己喜欢或支持的人从不避讳”。特朗普是首位公开明确背书以色列选举候选人的美国总统，该选举定于10月27日举行。包括国防部长在内的美国军方官员通常避免在国内外表现出参与政治活动的迹象。
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said Trump “will speak or work with anyone, and he makes no secret about those he likes or supports.”Trump is the first U.S. president to explicitly and publicly endorse a candidate in an Israeli election, which is scheduled for Oct. 27. U.S. military officials, including defense secretaries, have generally avoided appearing to engage in political activities in the U.S. and overseas.
内塔尼亚胡发言人多伦·斯皮尔曼表示，双方讨论了地区威胁以及特朗普对以色列总理的背书。特朗普及其国家安全团队曾权衡重启针对德黑兰的军事行动，但特朗普表示，美国不会在中期选举前采取行动。
Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for Netanyahu, said the pair discussed regional threats and Trump’s endorsement for the Israeli premier. Trump and his national security team have weighed restarting military action against Tehran, but Trump has said the U.S. would not act before the midterm elections.
四月，JD·万斯在匈牙利举行选举前五天，与时任匈牙利总理欧尔班一同出席了一场竞选集会。“我们必须让维克托·欧尔班连任匈牙利总理，对吧？”万斯对1000名欧尔班支持者说。欧尔班是特朗普政府表达过好感的一群政治保守派人士的一员，但他最终输掉了选举。
In April, JD Vance attended an election rally in Budapest alongside Hungary’s then-Prime Minister Orbán just five days before the country went to the polls. “We have got to get Viktor Orbán re-elected as prime minister of Hungary, don’t we?”Vance said to 1,000 Orbán supporters. Orbán, part of a group of political conservatives the Trump administration has expressed affinity for, ultimately lost the race.
负责领导共和党中期选举策略的前白宫助手布莱尔和拉奇维塔，本月早些时候从美国竞选之旅中抽身，前往塞族共和国，为该国执政党工作，该党面临10月4日的选举。
Blair and LaCivita, former White House aides who are leading Republicans’ midterm election strategy, earlier this month took a break from the U.S. campaign trail to visit Republika Srpska to work on behalf of the country’s ruling party that faced an Oct. 4 election.
特朗普的盟友们赞扬该执政党——独立社会民主人士联盟——拥抱基督教保守主义并反对加入欧盟。
Trump’s allies have praised the ruling party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, for its embrace of Christian conservatism and opposition to joining the European Union.
特朗普在Truth Social上回应了对布莱尔和拉奇维塔此行的批评，称他们是“外部顾问”，“被允许为他人工作”。他说，如果这两人出现利益冲突，他将“立即解雇他们”。布莱尔周一随特朗普乘坐空军一号飞往堪萨斯州。
Trump responded to criticism of LaCivita and Blair’s trip on Truth Social, saying they are “outside consultants” who “are allowed to do work for others.”He said he would “terminate them immediately” if the pair presented a conflict of interest. Blair flew with Trump on Air Force One to Kansas on Monday.
虽然特朗普及其团队在外国政治偏好方面最为公开，但这种现象并非完全没有先例。
While Trump and his team have been the most overt with their foreign political preferences, the phenomenon is not totally without precedent.
2016年4月访问伦敦期间，奥巴马总统采取了罕见的举措，呼吁英国留在欧盟。他为配合此次访问，在英国报纸《每日电讯报》上撰写了一篇反对“脱欧”的评论文章，并在新闻发布会上阐述了自己的观点。
President Barack Obama took the unusual step of calling on the United Kingdom to remain in the EU while he was visiting London in April 2016. He wrote an op-ed against Brexit in the British newspaper The Telegraph timed to his visit and also made his case during a press conference.
“当英国帮助领导一个强大的欧盟时，英国处于最佳状态，”他当时说。
“The U.K. is at its best when it’s helping to lead a strong European Union,” he said at the time.
他和他的政府还因某些人认为的“民主党对2015年以色列选举的干预”而受到批评。参议院的调查发现，一个名为V15的组织（其目标是推翻内塔尼亚胡）从美国国务院获得了近35万美元的资助。美国最初是将这笔资金提供给另一个旨在促进以色列与巴勒斯坦地区和平的组织，但该组织后来改组为协助V15组织开展反对内塔尼亚胡的政治活动。
He and his administration also faced criticism for what some perceived to be a Democratic intervention in the 2015 Israeli elections. A Senate probe found that a group known as V15, aimed at ousting Netanyahu, received nearly $350,000 in grant money from the State Department. The U.S. had initially given the money to a group aimed to foster support for peace between Israel and the Palestinian territories but the organization later morphed to help set up political infrastructure for the V15 campaign against Netanyahu.
杰里米·伯德（Jeremy Bird）曾是奥巴马竞选团队的全国现场负责人，他与V15组织有过合作，他的参与进一步加剧了这场争议。
Jeremy Bird, a former national field director for the Obama campaign, worked with the V15 group, with his participation adding to the controversy. The post From Budapest to Banja Luka, Trump’s aides campaign for foreign politicians MS NOW