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The same goes for Trump’s latest “spygate” allegations.
特朗普最新導演的“間諜門”指控也是如此。
According to both Republicans and Democrats who have seen the intelligence on the matter, including House Republican Trey Gowdy of South Carolina,
據了解有關情報的共和黨人和民主黨人，如來自南卡羅來納州的共和黨議員特雷·高迪透露，
the spies complied with all the internal and external rules controlling how and when they can covertly investigate a political campaign.
情報機關遵循了決定如何以及何時秘密調查一場政治活動的內外所有規定。
By undermining intelligence agencies that are complying with the rules, Trump is calling into question the rules themselves.
削弱遵守規則的情報機構的公信力無異于對上述規則本身提出了質疑。
“What we have is a President,” says Hayden, “attacking and undercutting the validity of institutions.”
“我們的總統是一位，”海登說，“正在攻擊和削弱國家制度的有效性的總統。”
Why would Trump make such a sustained, frontal assault on the legitimacy of the government?
特朗普為何會對政府的正統性發起如此持久的正面攻擊？
Perhaps because his own legitimacy is at stake.
或許是因為他自己的正統性也已經岌岌可危。
In his book, Clapper makes the provocative assertion that the Russian operation helped determine the outcome of the election.
克拉珀在其著作中以挑釁的口吻斷言道，俄羅斯的行動也是選舉結果背后的推手之一。
“Of course the Russian efforts affected the out-come.
“很明顯，俄方左右了大選結果。
Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win.
令他們自己都頗感意外的是，大選的天平最終傾向了特朗普一方。
To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point,” Clapper writes.
如果得出的是相反的結論，邏輯、常識和信任都會陷入崩潰的邊緣，”克拉珀寫道。
“Less than eighty thousand votes in three key states swung the election.
“三個關鍵州不到8萬張的選票就改變了選舉的結果。
I have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the Russians.”
我確信，受到俄方此次大型干預舉措影響的選票數目不止這些。”
Whatever Trump’s reason for attacking America’s government, Hayden says the possible results are ominous.
不管特朗普是出于何種原因攻擊美國政府，海登說，其結果都不會樂觀。
“(It) is not that civil war or societal collapse is necessarily imminent or inevitable here in America,
“并不是說內戰或社會崩潰就已經一觸即發或是不可避免，
but that the structures, processes and attitudes we rely on to prevent those kinds of occurrences are under stress,” Hayden writes.
而是我們防止這類事件發生所依存的體系、程序和態度都已經處于壓力之下，”海登寫道。
“I am saying that with full knowledge of other crises we have (successfully) faced.
“說這句話之前，我對我們已經（成功）應對過的其他危機已經有了充分的認知，
But there most often we argued over the values to be applied to objective reality, not the existence or the relevance of objective reality itself.”
但是，那些時候，我們最常爭論的往往是我們應該賦予客觀現實的價值，而非客觀現實本身的存在性或是關聯性。”
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