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Gaetz laughs about the outrage the invitation stirred up.
蓋茲對他的邀請函引發(fā)的憤怒一笑置之。
“I’d never heard of the guy,” he says.
“我聽都沒聽說過這個人，”他說。
“A colleague called me up and said what he wanted to talk about was my views on cannabis reform and bitcoin.”
“一位同事打電話給我，說他想談的是我對大麻改革和比特幣的看法。”
Gaetz says he extended the State of the Union invitation to Johnson in an off-the-cuff gesture after his original guest, his father, fell sick.
蓋茲說，他給約翰遜發(fā)國情咨文演講邀請，是在他原計劃的邀請嘉賓，也就是他父親，病倒以后臨時決定的。
More substantively, Gaetz has been one of the House’s loudest critics of the Russia investigation, which he considers an exercise in delegitimizing Trump.
更確切地說，蓋茲一直是眾議院批評俄羅斯調(diào)查批評得最激烈的議員之一，因為他認(rèn)為該調(diào)查實(shí)打?qū)嵉氖窃谀ê谔乩势铡?/div>
“Part of Russia’s influence campaign is to engage in these asymmetric pokes at democracies everywhere,
“調(diào)查俄羅斯干預(yù)美國政治一事，部分工作就是對各地的民主制度進(jìn)行不對等的攻擊，
and we gotta prepare for that and deal with that,” he says.
我們必須為此做好準(zhǔn)備，并加以應(yīng)對，”他說。
“But did the Trump campaign collude with Russia?
“但特朗普的競選團(tuán)隊到底有沒有和俄羅斯串通一氣?
These were folks lurching from one campaign rally to the next.
畢竟這些人都是從一場競選集會跌跌撞撞地去另一場競選集會的人。
I was the emcee at one of the rallies,
我自己就曾經(jīng)主持過一次那樣的集會，
and I only found out the people I’d be introducing at the event hours before it began.”
那次，距離集會開始只有幾個小時了我才知道我下面要介紹的都是些什么人。”
At this point, Gaetz’s chief of staff, Kip Talley, interrupts to show me a Twitter video his team had posted days prior,
就在這個時候，蓋茲的幕僚長基普·塔利打斷了我，給我看了他的團(tuán)隊幾天前發(fā)布的一段推特視頻，
jabbing at Representative Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee,
視頻將矛頭對準(zhǔn)了眾議院情報委員會主席，民主黨議員亞當(dāng)·希夫，
for doing a 2013 interview on the Kremlin-backed news outlet RT.
因為他曾在2013年接受過克里姆林宮支持的新聞機(jī)構(gòu)RT電視臺的采訪。
“Some say that was a little trollish,” Gaetz says with a smile. “To each his own.”
“有人說這么做有點(diǎn)兒惡意中傷了。”蓋茲笑著說道。“各人有各人的看法吧。”
Such stunts have earned him the personal attention of the President,
這些特技為他贏得了總統(tǒng)的關(guān)注，
whom Gaetz says calls every now and again to offer praise for his cable-news appearances.
蓋茲說，總統(tǒng)時常打電話給他，稱贊他在有線電視節(jié)目上的表現(xiàn)。
“He cracks me up,” Gaetz says.
“把我給笑壞了，”蓋茲說。
“When Donald Trump calls you, it’s like you have a little Trump rally in your ear.”
“因為每次特朗普總統(tǒng)給你打電話，都好像在你耳朵邊舉行一場小小的特朗普集會一樣。”
GAETZ WOULD KNOW.
蓋茲當(dāng)然知道。
He became a Trump man fairly early in the GOP primary,
因為在共和黨初選的時候，他很早就是特朗普的支持者了，
pivoting from former governor Jeb Bush, whom he once idolized.
還是從他曾經(jīng)崇拜的前州長杰布·布什那邊倒戈過來的。
“For everyone our age in Florida that came up in the conservative movement,
“在佛羅里達(dá)，對在保守主義運(yùn)動中成長起來的我們這個年齡的每一個人來說，
Jeb Bush was like Attila the Hun,” he says.
杰布·布什都是匈奴王阿提拉一樣的存在。”他說。
“But the ’98 vintage of Jeb turned out to be very diferent than the 2016 vintage Jeb.”
“只是，2016年的杰布已經(jīng)不是98年的那個杰布了。”
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