通过拍卖私人晚餐，特朗普找到了一种将外国钱纳入他的竞选活动的方法

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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.

批评总统决定通过他的特朗普品牌加密代币拍卖私人晚餐的决定，这是由于一些原因而担心特技的。在名单的首位：外国人购买与现任总统的机会的潜力，这是美国宪法明确禁止的。

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.

这些担忧似乎是充分建立的。特朗普的纪念物的绝大多数最高持有人似乎是海外的，其中包括顶级投资者 - 中国出生的加密大亨，直到最近，他仍面临美国的民事欺诈指控。

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.

根据《财富》杂志的一封电子邮件，由组织者作为“世界上最独家的邀请”的盛会，将在华盛顿特区郊外的总统特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部举行。

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.

预计客人将包括唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统和220名最高特朗普买家的220名，他们在三周内共同倾倒了大约1.48亿美元的成员 - 这种加密产品在功能上是货币或投资工具的功能无用的类型，而认真的投资者避免了，因为他们倾向于崩溃。第二天，前25美元的特朗普硬币持有人有资格参加私人白宫之旅 - 这种访问通常用于国家元首。

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，由于Crypto对设计是匿名的，因此顶级投资者的身份（他们出现在公共排行榜上，只有自选的三个字母或四个字母的用户名和漫长的加密数字钱包地址，都无法识别。

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，彭博新闻（Bloomberg News）的一项分析发现，$特朗普纪念物的前25名持有人中的六位除了表面上是对居住在美国的任何人的外交交流。彭博社发现，超过一半的前220个持有人使用了类似的海上交易所。

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.

周四的“超级专有的私人VIP接待”只是特朗普政府在办公室和总统个人寻求利润之间发挥道德界限的最新实例。他对这种界限的明显蔑视激怒了整个政治领域的评论员。

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.”

康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲（Chris Murphy）提出立法以禁止官员出售成员，他在本周的一次听证会上说，盛会“代表了一个真正的问题”，因为“显然有一种围绕国务院的方式，即具有重要影响力和财富能够直接总统的外国人部门。”怀俄明州的共和党加密辩护人参议员辛西娅·卢米斯（Cynthia Lummis）也表示，这次活动让她“停下来”。

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.

进步的倡导组织公民正在周四在波托马克瀑布，弗吉尼亚州的高尔夫球场外组织抗议活动，并呼吁司法部和其他官员要求特朗普负责。

“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.”

《华尔街日报》的保守派社论页周二写道：“他会通过取消周四的晚会来帮助自己。” “如果他不这样做，他至少可以透露他的加密竞赛的获胜者，以便美国人知道谁可能试图购买总统的机会。”

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.”

当美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）问白宫是否会发布盛大的客人名单时，一位发言人回答说：“特朗普总统只为美国公众的最大利益而行动 - 这就是为什么他们压倒性地将他当选为这个办公室的原因，尽管对他及其企业的谎言和虚假指控来自假新闻媒体。”

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

拍卖的组织者没有回应CNN的置评请求。

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!”

一位公开的客人是中国出生的加密企业家贾斯汀·孙（Justin Sun），他并没有完全隐藏自己的地位。观察者很确定，当拍卖的公共排行榜展示用户名太阳上升时，亿万富翁会带领这一领先。后来在周二在社交媒体上证实，他“很荣幸”支持特朗普，并兴奋地参加了“作为他的顶级粉丝！”参加晚会。

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.

特朗普的连任和他对加密货币的新发现，这是一个幸运的时光，这是34岁的区块链公司Tron的创始人Sun。 2023年，美国监管机构指控Sun及其公司出售未注册的证券，并欺诈地操纵了数字令牌Tronix的价格。

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.

圣基茨和尼维斯的公民太阳成为支持特朗普家族加密项目《世界自由金融》的首位著名投资者，该项目于2024年秋天推出。太阳最终将至少7500万美元倒入了世界自由令牌（与特朗普的$ trump）中，他的莫名其妙价值超过2200万美元，以超过2200万美元的价格，以超过2200万美元的价格来看。

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.

据《福布斯》报道，总而言之，太阳的行动，包括他们从其他加密爱好者那里引发的购买，估计为特朗普家族产生了4亿美元的意外收获。

Then, about a month into Trump

然后，进入特朗普大约一个月