通過拍賣私人晚餐，特朗普找到了一種將外國錢納入他的競選活動的方法

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Critics of the president’s decision to auction off a private dinner via his Trump-branded crypto token were worried about the stunt for a few reasons. At the top of the list: the potential for foreigners to buy access to the sitting president, something the US Constitution explicitly prohibits.

批評總統決定通過他的特朗普品牌加密代幣拍賣私人晚餐的決定，這是由於一些原因而擔心特技的。在名單的首位：外國人購買與現任總統的機會的潛力，這是美國憲法明確禁止的。

Those concerns, it seems, were well founded. The vast majority of the top holders of Trump’s memecoin appear to be based overseas, including the top investor — a Chinese-born crypto mogul who, until recently, was facing civil fraud charges from the US.

這些擔憂似乎是充分建立的。特朗普的紀念物的絕大多數最高持有人似乎是海外的，其中包括頂級投資者 - 中國出生的加密大亨，直到最近，他仍面臨美國的民事欺詐指控。

Billed by organizers as the “most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the WORLD,” Thursday’s gala is set to take place at the president’s private Trump National Golf Club, just outside of Washington, DC, according to an email to guests seen by Fortune.

根據《財富》雜誌的一封電子郵件，由組織者作為“世界上最獨家的邀請”的盛會，將在華盛頓特區郊外的總統特朗普國家高爾夫俱樂部舉行。

The guests are expected to include President Donald Trump himself and 220 of the top $TRUMP buyers, who collectively dumped an estimated $148 million over three weeks into the memecoin — a type of crypto product that is functionally useless as a currency or investment vehicle, and one that serious investors avoid because of their tendency to collapse in value. The top 25 $TRUMP coin holders are eligible for a private White House tour the following day — the kind of access typically reserved for heads of state.

預計客人將包括唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）總統和220名最高特朗普買家的220名，他們在三週內共同傾倒了大約1.48億美元的成員 - 這種加密產品在功能上是貨幣或投資工具的功能無用的類型，而認真的投資者避免了，因為他們傾向於崩潰。第二天，前25美元的特朗普硬幣持有人有資格參加私人白宮之旅 - 這種訪問通常用於國家元首。

And because crypto is anonymous by design, the identities of the top investors — who appeared on a public leaderboard with nothing but self-selected three- or four-letter usernames and long, cryptographic digital wallet addresses — aren’t easily to be able to identify.

而且，由於Crypto對設計是匿名的，因此頂級投資者的身份（他們出現在公共排行榜上，只有自選的三個字母或四個字母的用戶名和漫長的加密數字錢包地址，都無法識別。

But an analysis by Bloomberg News found that all but six of the top 25 holders of the $TRUMP memecoin used foreign exchanges that are ostensibly off-limits to anyone living in the US. More than half of the top 220 holders used similar offshore exchanges, Bloomberg found.

但是，彭博新聞（Bloomberg News）的一項分析發現，$特朗普紀念物的前25名持有人中的六位除了表面上是對居住在美國的任何人的外交交流。彭博社發現，超過一半的前220個持有人使用了類似的海上交易所。

Thursday’s “ultra-exclusive private VIP reception” is just the latest instance of the Trump administration flouting ethical boundaries between the office and the president’s personal profit-seeking. His apparent contempt for such boundaries has angered commentators across the political spectrum.

週四的“超級專有的私人VIP接待”只是特朗普政府在辦公室和總統個人尋求利潤之間發揮道德界限的最新實例。他對這種界限的明顯蔑視激怒了整個政治領域的評論員。

Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who introduced legislation to ban officials from selling memecoins, said in a hearing this week that the gala “represents a real problem” because there is “clearly a way around the State Department for foreign individuals of significant influence and wealth to be able to directly president.” And even Republican crypto advocate Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming said the event gives her “pause.”

康涅狄格州民主黨參議員克里斯·墨菲（Chris Murphy）提出立法以禁止官員出售成員，他在本週的一次聽證會上說，盛會“代表了一個真正的問題”，因為“顯然有一種圍繞國務院的方式，即具有重要影響力和財富能夠直接總統的外國人部門。”懷俄明州的共和黨加密辯護人參議員辛西婭·盧米斯（Cynthia Lummis）也表示，這次活動讓她“停下來”。

The progressive advocacy group Public Citizen is organizing a protest outside the Potomac Falls, Virginia, golf course on Thursday, and is calling on the Department of Justice and other officials to hold Trump accountable.

進步的倡導組織公民正在周四在波托馬克瀑布，弗吉尼亞州的高爾夫球場外組織抗議活動，並呼籲司法部和其他官員要求特朗普負責。

“He’d help himself by calling off his Thursday gala,” the Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial page wrote Tuesday. “If he won’t do that, he could at least disclose his crypto contest’s winners so Americans know who may be trying to buy access to the President.”

《華爾街日報》的保守派社論頁週二寫道：“他會通過取消週四的晚會來幫助自己。” “如果他不這樣做，他至少可以透露他的加密競賽的獲勝者，以便美國人知道誰可能試圖購買總統的機會。”

That, too, seems unlikely.

那似乎也不太可能。

When CNN asked the White House whether a gala guest list would be released, a spokesperson replied with a statement saying: “President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public — which is why they overwhelmingly re-elected him to this office, despite years of lies and false accusations against him and his businesses from the fake news media.”

當美國有線電視新聞網（CNN）問白宮是否會發布盛大的客人名單時，一位發言人回答說：“特朗普總統只為美國公眾的最大利益而行動 - 這就是為什麼他們壓倒性地將他當選為這個辦公室的原因，儘管對他及其企業的謊言和虛假指控來自假新聞媒體。”

Organizers of the auction didn’t respond to CNN’s request for comment.

拍賣的組織者沒有回應CNN的置評請求。

One publicly known guest is Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, who wasn’t exactly hiding his status. Observers were pretty sure the billionaire was leading the pack when the auction’s public leaderboard displayed the username SUN topping the ranks. Sun later confirmed on social media Tuesday that he was “honored” to support Trump and excited to attend the gala “as his TOP fan!”

一位公開的客人是中國出生的加密企業家賈斯汀·孫（Justin Sun），他並沒有完全隱藏自己的地位。觀察者很確定，當拍賣的公共排行榜展示用戶名太陽上升時，億萬富翁會帶領這一領先。後來在周二在社交媒體上證實，他“很榮幸”支持特朗普，並興奮地參加了“作為他的頂級粉絲！”參加晚會。

Trump’s reelection and his newfound enthusiasm for crypto came at a fortunate time for Sun, the 34-year-old founder of blockchain company Tron. In 2023, US regulators charged Sun and his company with selling unregistered securities and fraudulently manipulating the price of the digital token Tronix.

特朗普的連任和他對加密貨幣的新發現，這是一個幸運的時光，這是34歲的區塊鏈公司Tron的創始人Sun。 2023年，美國監管機構指控Sun及其公司出售未註冊的證券，並欺詐地操縱了數字令牌Tronix的價格。

Sun, a citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis, became the first prominent investor to back the Trump family crypto project, World Liberty Financial, which launched in the fall of 2024. Sun eventually poured at least $75 million into the World Liberty token (which is separate from the $TRUMP token), and he’s amassed more than $22 million worth of President Trump’s memecoin, based on Wednesday’s prices.

聖基茨和尼維斯的公民太陽成為支持特朗普家族加密項目《世界自由金融》的首位著名投資者，該項目於2024年秋天推出。太陽最終將至少7500萬美元倒入了世界自由令牌（與特朗普的$ trump）中，他的莫名其妙價值超過2200萬美元，以超過2200萬美元的價格，以超過2200萬美元的價格來看。

All told, Sun’s actions, including the buying they sparked from other crypto enthusiasts, have generated an estimated $400 million windfall for the Trump family, according to Forbes.

據《福布斯》報導，總而言之，太陽的行動，包括他們從其他加密愛好者那裡引發的購買，估計為特朗普家族產生了4億美元的意外收穫。

Then, about a month into Trump

然後，進入特朗普大約一個月