特朗普承諾通過“模因”加密硬幣直接向他的口袋交付2000萬美元，不會透露買家是誰

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Want to know who, exactly, is putting millions of dollars, even tens of millions, directly into Donald Trump’s pocket through his “meme” crypto coins, and what they want in return?

想知道誰通過他的“模因”加密硬幣將數百萬美元甚至數千萬的人直接投入到唐納德·特朗普的口袋裡，以及他們想要什麼作為回報？

Or whether his trip to the United Arab Emirates this week will include a visit with the state-backed firm that plans on using $2 billion of his “stable” coin?

還是他本週前往阿拉伯聯合酋長國的旅行是否包括與國家支持的公司進行訪問，該公司計劃使用20億美元的“穩定”硬幣？

Well, too bad. According to the White House, none of that is any of your business.

好吧，太糟糕了。根據白宮的說法，這都不是您的任何事。

It truly is astounding, watching in real time as the president of the United States openly uses his office to enrich himself — the very definition of corruption — the way a third-world dictator might and, at least thus far, get away with it.

這確實令人震驚，實時觀看，因為美國總統公開利用他的辦公室豐富了自己 - 對腐敗的定義 - 第三世界獨裁者可能會和至少到目前為止逃脫它的方式。

“It’s like the government is for sale,” said Norm Eisen, the top ethics lawyer in the Obama White House. “Trump is acting like some kind of a corrupt pirate or a medieval potentate.”

奧巴馬白宮的頂級道德律師諾森說：“這就像政府正在出售。” “特朗普的行為就像某種腐敗的海盜或中世紀的實力。”

One reason why Trump’s blatant profiteering may be failing to gain traction is a widespread notion — one pushed by a lot of progressives — that Trump is doing nothing more than politicians have done for ages, that they’re all corrupt, that the whole system is corrupt, and so on.

特朗普公然的暴力作品可能未能獲得關注的原因之一是一個普遍的觀念（一個被許多進步主義者推動的觀念），即特朗普在政治家已經做了多年來所做的事情，即他們都腐敗了，整個制度都是腐敗的，等等。

They could not be more wrong. Full-on, cash-into-public-officials’-wallets corruption is actually rare in this country. What many people think of as political “corruption” is our system of financing campaigns, how those with money get access to candidates and elected officials. There is absolutely merit to this, particularly when it comes to groups that can accept contributions of unlimited size but never have to disclose the names of their donors.

他們再錯了。在這個國家，全面的現金公共官方官員折磨實際上很少。許多人認為政治“腐敗”是我們的融資運動系統，有錢的人如何與候選人和民選官員接觸。這絕對是有價值的，尤其是當涉及到可以接受無限尺寸但不必披露其捐助者名稱的群體時。

What Trump is doing, however, is a difference of kind, not just degree.

但是，特朗普在做的是友善的不同，而不僅僅是學位。

Donations to campaigns, to super PACs, to nonprofit “issue” advocacy groups — all of this is to influence who gets elected to office. All that money is spent on campaigns. (And putting any of that money to personal use is a crime, as politicians who have been charged and convicted can attest.)

向運動，超級PACS，非營利組織“發行”倡導團體捐款 - 所有這些都是影響誰當選任職的人。所有這些錢都花在競選上。 （將這筆錢投入個人使用是一種犯罪，因為被指控和定罪的政客可以證明。）

The secret buyers of Trump’s coins hoping to win an audience with him at his Virginia golf resort in two weeks, in contrast, are not contributing to any campaign. They are contributing to his personal bank account. Same with that Emirati firm, MGX.

特朗普硬幣的秘密買家希望在兩週內在他的弗吉尼亞高爾夫度假勝地與他一起贏得觀眾，這並沒有為任何競選做出貢獻。他們為他的個人銀行帳戶做出了貢獻。與那家阿聯酋公司MGX相同。

There is zero precedent for this in the American presidency over at least the last century, with the exception of Trump’s first term. During those four years, he raked in millions from foreign and domestic interest groups and Republican candidates and parties who spent freely at his hotel and resort. This included official delegations from other countries that would reserve whole blocks of rooms at his hotel just five blocks from the White House.

至少在上個世紀，在美國總統職位中，這是零的先例，除了特朗普的第一任期外。在那四年中，他從外國和國內利益集團以及共和黨候選人和聚會上自由地在他的酒店和度假村度過的派對中賺了數百萬美元。其中包括來自其他國家的官方代表團，這些代表團將在他的酒店保留整個房間，距離白宮僅五個街區。

Trump is acting like some kind of a corrupt pirate or a medieval potentate.

特朗普的行為就像某種腐敗的海盜或中世紀的潛力。

After his November win, Trump hit upon a scheme that requires none of the costs of owning and running a hotel or golf resort and will potentially bring him far, far more cash. Trump announced his “$TRUMP” coin three days before re-taking office. His family’s “World Liberty Financial” brokerage announced its “stable” crypto coin — stable because it is tied to the United States dollar through the instruments that back it — in March.

在11月贏得勝利之後，特朗普達成了一項計劃，該計劃不需要擁有和經營酒店或高爾夫度假勝地的費用，並有可能帶給他更多的現金。特朗普在重新任職前三天宣布了他的“ $特朗普”硬幣。他的家人的“世界自由金融”經紀公司宣布了其“穩定”加密硬幣 - 穩定，因為它通過支持其的工具與美國美元息息相關。

How much, precisely, Trump earns from these enterprises is impossible to determine from public records because crypto is largely unregulated and, thanks to Trump, will not even be scrutinized by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

確切地說，特朗普從這些企業中賺錢多少是無法從公共記錄中確定的，因為加密在很大程度上不受監管，而且由於特朗普，證券和交易委員會甚至不會審查。

That Trump cares deeply about the success of these ventures, though, is obvious from his actions. He has repeatedly promoted his meme coin — which has zero intrinsic value — on social media, and last week even promoted the contest whose winners will earn the right to interact with him in small group settings on May 22.

不過，特朗普深深地關心這些冒險的成功，從他的行動中顯而易見。他在社交媒體上反复宣傳自己的模因硬幣（內在價值為零），上週甚至促進了比賽的冠軍將在5月22日在小組環境中與他互動的權利。

HuffPost specifically asked several White House officials detailed questions about Trump’s involvement in his crypto ventures. They all declined to answer and instead referred to press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s statements at Friday’s briefing.

Huffpost特別問了幾位白宮官員，詳細介紹了有關特朗普參與他加密貨幣風險的問題。他們都拒絕回答，而是在周五的簡報中提到新聞秘書卡羅琳·萊維特的聲明。

“It’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit,” she said. “The president is abiding by all conflict-of-interest laws.”

她說：“坦率地說，這個房間裡的任何人甚至都建議特朗普總統為自己的利益做任何事情。” “總統正在遵守所有利益衝突的法律。”

And that is the inside joke about all of this. The federal conflict-of-interest laws specifically do not apply to the president.

這就是所有這些的內在笑話。聯邦利益法律特別不適用於總統。

Indeed, even suggesting that what Trump is doing is a “conflict of interest” — which is the way many journalists and other observers are describing it — wildly misses the mark.

的確，即使暗示特朗普在做的事情是“利益衝突”（這是許多記者和其他觀察家描述的方式）瘋狂地錯過了這一點。

When Jimmy Carter’s Department of Agriculture wrote and enforced regulations regarding peanut farming, that was a potential conflict of interest. What Trump is doing is a completely different animal.

當吉米·卡特（Jimmy Carter）的農業部撰寫並執行了有關花生種植的法規時，這是一種潛在的利益衝突。特朗普在做的是完全不同的動物。

He unabashedly created businesses that specifically use the fact that he is president to make money. How much interest would there be in a Trump “meme” coin if he were a former president living quietly in his Palm Beach country club? What are the chances of an Emirati business using $2

他毫不掩飾地創造了專門使用他是賺錢的事實的事實。如果特朗普“模因”硬幣是前總統靜靜地居住在他的棕櫚灘鄉村俱樂部中，那將有多少興趣？使用$ 2的酋長國業務有什麼機會