政府通信总部在2016年美国总统竞选期间监听特朗普的说法，最早由3月14日，美国福克斯新闻频道评论员、前法官安德鲁·纳波利塔诺在“福克斯与朋友们”的节目中说，英国政府通信总部在去年美国总统竞选期间监听特朗普，并将特朗普的讲话记录文本送给奥巴马。对此，英国政府通信总部于17日罕见发表公开声明，称白宫说法“荒谬透顶”。
英国深陷美国“监听门”，回应“一派胡言”
WillPresident Trump ever learn — or care — that his fact-free tweets have painfulconsequences, not just at home but abroad? Surely he must sense this by now, asthe administration faces the outrage of British allies who have been draggedinto his increasingly bogus allegation that he was spied on by the Obamaadministration.
特朗普总统就不能认识到，或者在意自己所发推文的影响吗？这些文字毫无事实根据，并且在美国国内及国外都造成了极其严重的后果。当然，他现在一定感受到了——特朗普指控奥巴马政府曾窃听自己，并认为英国在其中难逃干系，这一愈发虚假的指控使我们的英国盟友十分愤怒。
In afeverish defense of Mr. Trump’s charge, the White House press spokesman, SeanSpicer, on Thursday cited an unsubstantiated Fox News report that the Britishintelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters, had been secretlycalled on by the Obama administration to spy on Mr. Trump.
周四，白宫发言人肖恩·斯派塞（Sean Spicer）在为特朗普辩护时，言辞激烈，援引了一则来自福克斯新闻（Fox News）的报道。这则并不可靠的报道称，英国的情报机构——英国政府通信总部曾暗中要求奥巴马政府窃听特朗普。
Britishofficials were terse in their fury, dismissing the allegation as “nonsense.”“Utterly ridiculous and should be ignored,” the British agency said.
盛怒之下，英国官员态度强硬，对这“一派胡言”置之不理。英国政府通信总部表示该言论“荒唐至极，人们不应予以理睬。”
White Houseaides tried to calm the waters with incensed British officials, who said theyhad received assurances that the allegations would not be repeated. But no onespeaks for Mr. Trump. On Friday, he stuck by his wiretapping charge — withoutdisputing a Fox News commentator’s claim of British spy involvement — despiteRepublican leaders in Congress debunking his accusation, saying thatintelligence investigators have found no evidence to back it.
白宫助理竭力安抚愤怒的英国官员，而后者则表示他们之前已经得到美方保证，对毫无证据的指控不会再次提起。然而却没有一个人为特朗普说话。周五，尽管共和党国会高层官员以情报局调查员并未发现相关支持证据为由，反驳了对特朗普的指控，，但特朗普本人仍坚持对电话窃听事件的指控，对福克斯新闻评论员声称英国间谍参与其中一事并未提出质疑。
“Verysoon,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on Wednesday night, the administration“will be submitting things” to Congress to prove his outrageous accusation.
周三晚上，特朗普在采访中表示，政府“很快”将向国会“提交证据”来证明他那耸人听闻的控告。
Whatthings? From what Alt-Right Tooth Fairy? Surely the nation — even Mr. Trump’scredulous base — is learning to recognize his dodges when he is cornered. “Ithink you’re going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefrontover the next two weeks,” Mr. Trump promised, probably quite aware that he canalways generate a different controversy by tweet when nothing he says comestrue.
他这是什么意思？来自什么另类右翼的牙仙童话故事？当然是整个国家——甚至是那些容易上当受骗的特朗普支持者们。整个国家正慢慢识破他在走投无路之时的伎俩。当特朗普所言皆无法成为现实时，他总可以在推特上发文引发新的论战。或许是他自己也意识到了这一点，所以才会向民众许诺：“在接下来的两周内，你们将会发现很多有趣的东西浮出水面。”
Mr. Trump’spattern for abusing the truth was established in his disgraceful five-year-long“birther” campaign, in which he promoted the lie that President Obama was notborn in the United States. “I have people that have been studying” the issue,he said in an interview in 2011. “They cannot believe what they are finding,”he said, grabbing national attention with a vile slander against the president.
特朗普滥用事实的套路始于他推行了五年的不光彩的出生地怀疑运动。在这场运动中，特朗普声称奥巴马总统并非在美国出生，并且将这个谎言不断传播传播。2011年，他在一次采访中提到“我的人在研究”这个事情。“他们无法相信他们所发现的内容，”特朗普这样说道，并以这样卑鄙诽谤奥巴马总统的言论攫取民众的注意力。
Mr. Trumpbacked off that fabrication only when the Republican nomination was safely his.He briefly stipulated the obvious, that Mr. Obama was born in the UnitedStates. But he instantly concocted a new falsehood, insisting that his opponentHillary Clinton, not he, initiated the birther conspiracy.
直到自己成功成为共和党总统候选人之后，特朗普才停止了造谣。他只是三言两语简单地承认了事实——奥巴马出生于美国。但他随即捏造了新的谎言，坚称“出生地怀疑阴谋”的始作俑者是其对手希拉里·克林顿，而非他自己。
He neverpublicly apologized to Mr. Obama for that slur (or to Mrs. Clinton, for thatmatter). Nor is he likely to apologize to Mr. Obama or Downing Street for thelatest. “If he didn’t do it, we shouldn’t be reckless in accusations that hedid,” Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, said Friday of Mr.Obama, in finding Mr. Trump offered no “compelling truth.”
他从未因那则流言而公开向奥巴马或克林顿道歉，他也不可能因刚发生的这件事而向奥巴马或英国政府道歉。周五，来自俄克拉荷马州的共和党众议员汤姆·柯尔（TomCole）在提及奥巴马时表示：“如果他（译者注：奥巴马）没有这样做的话，我们也不会如此不计后果地对他提出控告。”当时，调查结果显示特朗普并未提供“令人信服的事实”。
The idea ofMr. Trump apologizing for anything is surreal. At a news conference on Fridaywith German chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr. Trump said he “very seldom” regretshis tweets. He tried to argue that the White House was silent about theunsubstantiated story of British espionage, though he did take care to praisethe claim as coming from “a very talented” commentator. (Meanwhile, of course,he continues to show a mysterious lack of concern for what Americanintelligence has found to be actual foreign meddling in American politics, byRussia.)特朗普是不会向任何事情道歉的。周五，他在与德国总理安格拉·默克尔（Angela Merkel）举行的新闻发布会上表示，自己“极少”为自己的推文感到抱歉。尽管他确确实实表扬了那则来自“一位极其优秀的”评论家的声明，但他同时也试图批评白宫在英国间谍活动（并无事实依据）中保持沉默。（与此同时，尽管美国情报局已经发现任何俄罗斯涉嫌干涉美国政治的实质证据，但特朗普对此却迷之不上心。）
Of course,it was Mr. Spicer, the president’s spokesman, who had dutifully come forth,more as minister of propaganda to compound the smear by stretching it all theway to London.
当然，斯派塞（Mr.Spicer）作为总统发言人，有义务站出来为特朗普说两句。不仅如此，他更是诽谤抹黑的宣传部部长，始终把该事件牵扯到英国政府头上。
“I don’tthink we regret anything,” Mr. Spicer blithely told reporters on Friday, evenafter Fox News said it “knows of no evidence” that the London spying tale istrue.
尽管福克斯新闻报道“没有任何证据”证明英国窃听事件属实，但在周五，斯派塞仍满不在乎地告诉记者：“我认为我们不需要为任何事情道歉，”显然没有把该事件放在心上。
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