特朗普的Meme加密货币硬币发射可能违反了Hatch Act，新法案试图关闭漏洞

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统通过使用其国家知名度来推动模因加密货币，在纸上撰写了数千亿美元。一位民主党国会议员希望确保其他政客不能做同样的事情。

Donald Trump has made tens of billions of dollars on paper by using his national profile to push meme cryptocurrency. One Democratic congressman wants to make sure other politicians can’t do the same.

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）通过使用他的国家知名度来推动模因加密货币，在纸上赚了数万美元。一位民主党国会议员希望确保其他政客不能做同样的事情。

California Rep. Sam Liccardo on Thursday introduced a bill that would bar Trump and other public officials from promoting stocks and cryptocurrency endeavors from which they stand to financially benefit. The legislation would open the door to civil and criminal action against those seeking to personally enrich themselves while holding public office.

加利福尼亚州众议员Sam Liccardo周四提出了一项法案，该法案将禁止特朗普和其他公职人员推广股票和加密货币努力，从而在经济上受益。该立法将为那些在担任公职时亲自丰富自己的人的民事和刑事诉讼打开大门。

It’s a longshot for now, given Republican control over Congress and the White House. But the freshman congressman — a former San Jose mayor — said it’s important for the future.

鉴于共和党对国会和白宫的控制权，这是一个漫长的事。但是新生国会议员 - 前圣何塞市长 - 表示对未来很重要。

“I think everyone scratched their head when President Trump started this pump and dump scheme, asking the question, ‘Why isn’t that prohibited?'” Liccardo said. “So let’s make sure, at the very least, it doesn’t happen again.”

“我认为，当特朗普总统制定此泵和垃圾场计划时，每个人都挠头，问：'为什么不被禁止？'” LICCARDO说。 “因此，至少要确保它不会再发生。”

Less than three days before Trump took the oath of office for the second time, he put out a call to supporters on social media: “GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW.” In the hours that followed, Trump’s meme cryptocurrency coin exploded in value — before cratering and causing investors to collectively lose over $2 billion in value.

在特朗普第二次宣誓就职之前不到三天，他在社交媒体上向支持者打电话：“立即获取您的$特朗普。”在随后的几个小时内，特朗普的模因加密货币的价值爆炸了 - 在遍布并导致投资者共同损失了超过20亿美元的价值之前。

A day after the Trump Organization launched the Trump coin, it issued a Melania meme coin, which similarly saw its valuation tank in recent weeks.

特朗普组织推出特朗普硬币的第二天，它发布了梅拉尼亚模因硬币，最近几周同样看到了其估值坦克。

Trump and those who facilitated the debut of his meme coin generated nearly $100 million in trading fees alone, Reuters first reported, and the president has continued to promote the cryptocurrency since becoming a public official again.

路透社首次报道，特朗普和那些促进他的模因硬币的首次亮相的人仅收取了近1亿美元的交易费用，并且自从再次成为公职人员以来，总统继续促进加密货币。

Liccardo likened Trump’s meme coin to similar endeavors from global leaders like the Central African Republic’s meme coins and Argentine President Javier Milei’s promotion of a now-defunct coin that has landed him at the center of a corruption probe.

Liccardo将特朗普的模因硬币比作类似的全球领导人，例如中非共和国的模因硬币和阿根廷总统贾维尔·米利（Javier Milei）晋升为现已灭绝的硬币，该硬币将他置于腐败调查的中心。

“What all these have in common is that they open public officials to the influence of others who are capable of buying millions, or in this case, hundreds of millions of dollars of financial assets to influence the outcome of decisions,” Liccardo said. “And some of those individuals, they live offshore and have very strong interests in conflict with the interests of our country.”

“所有这些共同之处在于，他们对能够购买数百万美元或在这种情况下的其他人的影响力开放，或者在这种情况下，数亿美元的金融资产来影响决策的结果。” “其中一些人，他们生活在海外，并且对与我国的利益冲突有很大的兴趣。”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

白宫没有立即回应置评请求。

Liccardo’s Modern Emoluments and Malfeasance Enforcement, or MEME, Act has over a dozen Democratic co-sponsors and would disallow the president, senior White House officials and members of Congress — including their spouses and children — from issuing or endorsing any financial asset.

Liccardo的现代梅尔和渎职执法或模因法案已有十几个民主党共同发起人，并将不允许颁发或认可任何金融资产，包括总统，白宫高级官员和国会议员（包括其配偶和子女）。

While laws like the Hatch Act exist to bar officials from endorsing products or services while serving the public, such regulations are often toothless.

虽然诸如《孵化法》之类的法律在为公众服务的同时，违反了对产品或服务的认可，但这种法规通常是无牙的。

In 2020, while serving as a senior adviser to her father, Ivanka Trump endorsed a can of Goya beans in an apparent violation of the Hatch Act. The White House declined to discipline Ivanka Trump, and the next day, her father posed for a photo with Goya products spread across his desk in the Oval Office.

2020年，在担任父亲的高级顾问时，伊万卡·特朗普（Ivanka Trump）认可了一罐戈亚·豆（Goya Beans），这显然违反了《孵化法》。白宫拒绝参加伊万卡·特朗普（Ivanka Trump）的纪律，第二天，她的父亲摆张照片，上面散布在椭圆形办公室的桌子上的戈雅产品。

“Regardless of whether there is any untoward influence or not, this is the use of a public office for personal financial gain, and public office doesn’t belong to the office holder,” Liccardo said. “It belongs to the American people. So this is an abuse of power, regardless of whether there’s corruption or not.”

LiCcardo说：“无论是否存在任何不利影响，这都是为个人经济利益而使用公职，公职不属于办公室持有人。” “它属于美国人民。因此，无论是否存在腐败，这都是对权力的滥用。”

Liccardo’s bill avoids simply relying on the Department of Justice to intervene should the president or other officials violate the proposed regulations, paving the way for civil complaints from those who may have been harmed by purchasing such assets.

如果总统或其他官员违反拟议的法规，Liccardo的法案避免了简单地依靠司法部进行干预，从而为可能因购买此类资产而受到损害的人铺平了道路。

The bill faces incredibly long odds in a Republican-controlled Congress that has shown little appetite for reining in executive authority.

该法案在共和党控制的国会中面临的赔率极为艰难，这对行政当局的兴趣不大。

Last year, Oversight Chair James Comer and then-Rep. Katie Porter pushed bipartisan legislation to ratchet up presidential transparency by mandating the disclosure of their personal tax returns and money received overseas. Comer promptly stopped pushing his own legislation after Trump won in November.

去年，监督主席詹姆斯·科默（James Comer）和当时的雷普（Rep）。凯蒂·波特（Katie Porter）通过要求披露其个人纳税申报表和在海外收到的资金来推动两党立法来提高总统透明度。特朗普在11月获胜后，Comer立即停止推动自己的立法。

Republican leadership in Congress has signaled interest, but not urgency, in tackling cryptocurrency legislation, and several GOP lawmakers — who themselves trade various meme coins — balked at the by the idea of strictly regulating the industry.

共和党在国会的领导表明，在解决加密货币立法方面的兴趣，但没有紧迫性，而几位共和党议员（他们本身交易各种模因硬币）因严格规范该行业的想法而受到关注。

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t expect this to get out of committee next week,” Liccardo said. “On the other hand … as (Trump) continues his failing and flailing in running this government, I would expect his poll ratings to continue to drop as they have over the last couple weeks, and eventually as the poll ratings continue to dive, more and more wobbly-kneed Republicans may get a dose of courage to decide it’s time to make corruption criminal again.”

预计下周会退出委员会。” Liccardo说。 “另一方面……随着（特朗普）继续他在管理这个政府方面的失败和失败，我希望他的民意调查收视率会像过去几周一样继续下降，最终，随着民意调查的评级继续潜入，越来越多的摇摆不定的共和党人可能会得到勇气的勇气，以决定是时候使腐败犯罪。”

This story was produced as part of a partnership between NOTUS — a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute — and NEWSWELL, home of Times of San Diego, Santa Barbara News

这个故事是作为Notus（非营利组织，无党派Allbritton新闻学院的出版物）与Newswell（圣地亚哥时报）的伙伴关系的一部分。