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Trump’s allies have taken up his battle cry.
特朗普的盟友們也加入了他的戰(zhàn)斗。
Giuliani, Trump’s primary legal spokesperson, has declared that a President cannot be indicted and has the power to pardon himself for any crime.
特朗普的主要法律發(fā)言人朱利安尼就已經(jīng)宣布，總統(tǒng)不能被起訴，總統(tǒng)有權(quán)赦免自己的任何罪行。
Conservative commentators have picked up on that tack,
保守派評(píng)論人士已經(jīng)察覺(jué)到了這一策略，
while GOP members of Congress who once hailed Mueller’s integrity have seconded the provocations or gone conspicuously silent.
曾經(jīng)還贊揚(yáng)穆勒正直的共和黨國(guó)會(huì)議員則分裂成了兩派，或支持他的挑戰(zhàn)行為，或明顯選擇了沉默。
The President “is trying to delegitimize the entire prosecution,” says Peter Zeidenberg, a former deputy special counsel under George W. Bush.
總統(tǒng)“正試圖剝奪整個(gè)起訴流程的合法性，”喬治·W·布什政府的前副特別檢察官彼得·澤登伯格說(shuō)道。
It seems to be working.
這一舉措似已奏效。
In a May CBS News poll, 53% of Americans said they believed Mueller’s investigation was politically motivated, up 5 points in five months.
哥倫比亞廣播公司5月份的一項(xiàng)民意調(diào)查顯示，53%的美國(guó)人認(rèn)為穆勒的調(diào)查政治動(dòng)機(jī)不純，5個(gè)月時(shí)間里這一比例上漲了5%。
An Economist/YouGov poll the same month found that 75% of Republicans agreed with Trump’s claim
經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人和YouGov同月攜手開(kāi)展的一項(xiàng)民意調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，有75%的共和黨人贊成特朗普
that the probe is a “witch hunt” (though only 37% of the overall public agreed).
所謂的此次調(diào)查是一場(chǎng)“政治迫害”的說(shuō)法（盡管整體而言只有37%的民眾同意這一看法）。
With Trump’s 87% support among Republicans,
特朗普在黨內(nèi)的支持率高達(dá)87%，
the only President since the 1940s who has been as loved by his own party after 500 days in office is Bush, post-9/11.
自上世紀(jì)40年代以來(lái)，執(zhí)政500天后在黨內(nèi)依然受到同等愛(ài)戴的只有布什總統(tǒng)一人，還是911事件后才出現(xiàn)的這一支持率。
This playbook has been run before by Clinton, whose impeachment lawyer, Emmet Flood, recently joined Trump’s team.
特朗普的這一招數(shù)比爾·克林頓也用過(guò)，而曾經(jīng)為克林頓代理彈劾案的律師艾米特·弗洛德最近已經(jīng)加入了特朗普陣營(yíng)。
Clinton so succeeded in discrediting the probe run by then–independent counsel Kenneth Starr
曾經(jīng)負(fù)責(zé)彈劾克林頓的調(diào)查的是當(dāng)時(shí)的獨(dú)立檢察官肯尼斯·斯塔爾，但克林頓成功地推翻了調(diào)查，
that his public support actually increased, and he survived impeachment.
其公眾支持率非但沒(méi)有下降，反而出現(xiàn)了提升，他也因此躲過(guò)一劫。
“This case is not going to be tried before a jury,” Giuliani tells TIME.
朱利安尼在接受本刊采訪時(shí)表示：“本案不會(huì)得到陪審團(tuán)的審理。”
“It’s not a criminal case.
“畢竟不是刑事案件。
It’s an investigation that’s going to result in a report,
只是一次調(diào)查，最后會(huì)有一份調(diào)查報(bào)告出來(lái)，
and the issue will be what happens to that report, and public opinion is going to have a lot to do with that.”
問(wèn)題是那份報(bào)告的命運(yùn)如何，這就跟公眾輿論有很大關(guān)系了。”
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