川普最新的賺錢舉措引起了道德監管機構的警惕

唐納德·特朗普總統和第一夫人梅拉尼婭·特朗普在他宣誓就職前幾天發布了表情包硬幣。一場盛大的就職前派對在他公司擁有的一處房產舉行。今年春天，由沙烏地阿拉伯支持的高爾夫錦標賽將在川普俱樂部舉辦。

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are cashing in on his presidency again.

唐納德·特朗普總統和第一夫人梅拉尼婭·特朗普再次從他的總統任期中獲利。

Just days before he took the oath of office, the Trumps each announced their own cryptocurrency, and a splashy pre-inaugural party was held at a property his company owns. And a Saudi-backed golf tournament is headed to a Trump club this spring.

就在他宣誓就職的前幾天，川普夫婦各自宣布了自己的加密貨幣，並在他公司擁有的一處房產中舉辦了一場盛大的就職前派對。今年春天，由沙烏地阿拉伯支持的高爾夫錦標賽將在川普俱樂部舉辦。

Trump’s latest money-making moves are raising alarms among ethics watchdogs who say that, just days into his presidency, the Republican appears poised to benefit financially from his final term in office in new and lucrative ways.

川普最新的賺錢舉措引起了道德監管機構的警惕，他們表示，就任總統幾天后，這位共和黨人似乎準備以新的、有利可圖的方式從他的最後一個任期中獲得經濟利益。

During his first four years in office, Trump’s team paid “lip service” to ethics guardrails, said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of the liberal group Public Citizen, which this week sued the Trump administration over a separate issue – claiming that Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is operating in violation of a federal transparency law that governs advisory panels.

自由派團體「公共公民」聯合主席麗莎·吉爾伯特表示，在川普執政的頭四年裡，川普的團隊只是「口頭上」遵守道德護欄。問題起訴川普政府，聲稱川普如此…名為「政府效率部」的機構的運作違反了管理顧問小組的聯邦透明度法。

“This time, it feels like the gloves are off, and they have no intention of comporting themselves with the decorum and ethical standards of other administrations,” Gilbert said. “They truly mean to make as much as they can on the backs of the American taxpayer.”

吉爾伯特說：“這一次，他們感覺就像是脫掉了手套，他們無意遵守其他政府的禮儀和道德標準。” “他們確實想在美國納稅人的支持下賺到盡可能多的錢。”

Asked this week by a reporter whether he intended to keep selling products, such as the meme coin, that benefit him personally, Trump said: “I don’t know if it benefited.”

本週，當一名記者問他是否打算繼續銷售對他個人有利的產品（例如模因幣）時，川普表示：“我不知道它是否受益。”

The president said he wasn’t aware of exactly how much he had made from the new cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, despite the coin’s value soaring to billions of dollars, according to CoinMarketCap.

根據 CoinMarketCap 報道，總統表示，儘管新加密貨幣「川普」的價值飆升至數十億美元，但他並不清楚自己到底從其中賺了多少錢。

“I don’t know much about it, other than I launched it,” he said. “I heard it was very successful.”

「除了我發起了它之外，我對此了解不多，」他說。 “聽說很成功。”

New businesses, new potential conflicts

新業務、新潛在衝突

Eight years ago, as he prepared to enter office for the first time, Trump pledged to address his financial conflicts with great fanfare – appearing at a news conference with lawyer Sheri Dillon alongside piles of documents that Trump said illustrated his extensive labors to turn over the Trump Organization to his sons.

八年前，當川普準備首次就職時，他承諾大張旗鼓地解決他的財務衝突——他與律師謝裡·狄龍一起出席新聞發布會，旁邊還放著成堆的文件，川普稱這些文件說明了他為移交財務問題所做的大量努力。

Ethics watchdogs panned Trump’s moves at the time as inadequate to address self-dealing because he chose not to divest his interests in his branding and real-estate empire or place it in a trust managed by an independent trustee.

道德監管機構批評川普當時的舉動不足以解決自我交易問題，因為他選擇不放棄自己在品牌和房地產帝國中的利益，也不將其置於由獨立受託人管理的信託中。

The ethics plan this time around mirrors the commitments Trump made during his first term with one significant difference: His son, Eric Trump – who oversees the Trump Organization day-to-day – has said the company will continue to pursue deals with overseas interests, bypassing a self-imposed restriction made in the first term.

這次的道德計劃反映了川普在第一個任期內做出的承諾，但有一個重大區別：他的兒子埃里克·川普（負責川普集團的日常事務）表示，該公司將繼續尋求與海外利益團體的交易，繞過第一任期內自我施加的限制。

The younger Trump has said the firm would not pursue new agreements with foreign governments and under the plan released this month, the Trump Organization pledged to track any profits it makes from foreign government entities and donate it to the US Treasury.

小川普曾表示，該公司不會與外國政府達成新協議，根據本月發布的計劃，川普集團承諾追蹤其從外國政府實體獲得的任何利潤，並將其捐贈給美國財政部。

Some deals involving foreign government resources will continue. In April, the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league is scheduled to host a tournament at the Trump family’s Doral resort. The league is backed by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. This marks the fourth year the event will be held at the Trump property, but it will be the first to take place with Donald Trump in the White House.

一些涉及外國政府資源的交易將繼續進行。 4 月，沙烏地阿拉伯支持的 LIV 高爾夫聯盟計劃在川普家族的多拉度假村舉辦一場錦標賽。該聯盟得到了沙烏地阿拉伯主權財富基金的支持。這是該活動在川普莊園舉行的第四年，但這將是第一次在白宮與唐納德·川普一起舉行。

The Trump Organization’s second-term ethics plan also is silent on whether Trump would attempt to launch new businesses while in office. Trump announced his meme coin on January 17 as he prepared to enter office. His wife’s $MELANIA cryptocurrency was announced the day before his January 20 inauguration.

川普集團的第二任期道德計畫也沒有提及川普是否會在任職期間嘗試開展新業務。 1 月 17 日，川普在準備就職時宣布了他的迷因幣。他的妻子的 $MELANIA 加密貨幣是在他 1 月 20 日就職的前一天宣布的。

Trump Organization officials did not respond to inquiries from CNN.

川普組織官員沒有回應 CNN 的詢問。

“Trump is taking on new conflicts in real time,” said Norm Eisen, a former ethics lawyer in the Obama White House and a prominent Trump critic. “It’s a recipe for an ethics disaster,” particularly given Trump’s power to decide how the federal government will regulate cryptocurrency.

「川普正在即時應對新的衝突，」歐巴馬白宮前道德律師、著名川普批評者諾姆艾森說。 “這是一場道德災難的根源”，特別是考慮到川普有權決定聯邦政府如何監管加密貨幣。

Eisen warned that Trump’s business activity risks violating the foreign Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution, which bars anyone holding federal office from accepting “any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state” without congressional approval.

艾森警告說，川普的商業活動可能違反美國憲法的外國薪酬條款，該條款禁止任何擔任聯邦職務的人在未經國會批准的情況下接受「來自任何國王、王子或外國的任何礼物、薪資、職位或任何形式的頭銜」。贊同。

“Any foreign government that wants to influence Donald Trump can just buy his meme coin in large quantities and let him know that they did,” he said.

「任何想要影響唐納德·川普的外國政府都可以大量購買他的迷因幣，並讓他知道他們這樣做了，」他說。

The emoluments question was litigated but not resolved during Trump’s first term. In

在川普的第一個任期內，薪酬問題曾被提起訴訟，但並未解決。在